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Finance Friday Articles
- 7 Attributes of The Millionaire Next Door
- 60/40 Portfolio Corrections, Bear Markets and Recoveries
- Financial Things You Should be Monitoring Throughout the Year but Likely Don’t
- How Much Money Do Doctors Make a Year? Salaries Have Yet Another Disappointingly Small Increase
- I’ve Been Semi-Retired for a Quarter Decade: Do We Have Enough Money? Am I Bored? Are We Happy?
- Life as a Military Physician — 10 Things I Loved About Being a Military Doctor
- Staying the Course Often Beats Trying to Time the Market
- Step Up in Basis — What You Need to Know
- The Dumb Money Isn’t So Dumb Anymore
- What State Topped This 2025 ‘Best for Military Retirees’ Survey?
Finance Friday Articles
- 5 Rules for Evaluating a Rental Property Investment
- 13 Ways to Screw Up Tax-Loss Harvesting
- 20 Reasons to Pay Off Your Home Mortgage
- 84-Month Auto Loans?!
- From Free Resident Meals to $750,000: Unleashing the Power of Behavioral Economics
- Has the American Dream Become Unattainable?
- How low ETF fees benefit investors over time
- Navigating retirement health: Care options and costs
- Stay ahead: Proactive tax-planning strategies
Every Physician Who Moonlights Needs to Read and Understand This Article
This article discusses the 2 types of malpractice insurance, and how the financial trouble of your employer can lead to loss of coverage. Here’s an article about something you don’t have to worry about in the Navy (unless you moonlight, of course):
Finance Friday Articles
- Emergency savings may hold key to financial well-being
- ETF vs. Mutual Funds: Pros and Cons
- How to Avoid Outliving Your Retirement Savings? It’s All in the Sequence
- Of the investor. By the investor. For the investor. Since 1975.
- Retirees: Here’s How to Tweak the 4% Rule to Protect Your Nest Egg
- Should You Pay Off Your Mortgage Early or Invest?
- Simplify, Simplify, Simplify — Real-Life Dilemmas
- Suffering in Private (Investments)
- The U.S. Dollar vs. Your Portfolio
- The Value of a Second Opinion
- US Bonds Have Never Been Risk-Free, and Never Will Be
- Using TIPS Funds as a Social Security Bridge
- When Does Housing Become THE Issue?
Finance Friday Articles
- 9 Pieces of Advice for a Retired Doctor
- 10% Returns in the Stock Market
- 10 Ways to Console Yourself When Losing Money in the Markets
- Be Minimally Extractive
- Lessons Learned from Achieving Financial Independence
- No Exception
- Shadow Syndrome
- Why Macro Forecasting Is So Impossible
- Yahoo Finance interview: Talking TIPS with Jeff Johnson
Finance Friday Articles
- Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford
- Give Now, Not Later
- In-Plan Roth Conversions Coming to TSP
- School Is In
- Staying the course does not mean “set it and forget it”
- The 7 Worst Ways to Invest in Real Estate
- The Things That Make You Money
- The Vanguard Fully Paid Lending Program: Should a WCIer Even Bother?
- What Are the Best & Worst-Case Tariff Scenarios?
- What’s the secret to tight bond index fund tracking?
Finance Friday Articles
- 10 Sources of Emergency Cash, Ranked From Best to Worst
- Amid stormy markets, a reminder: Control what you can
- Buying When the Stock Market is Down 15%
- How to Ease Your Money Anxiety When the Economy Is Stressing You Out
- How to Reduce Homeowners Insurance Costs Without Sacrificing Coverage
- How to Tax-Loss Harvest with Vanguard
- Investing in an Uncertain World
- The Price of Peace: Why Diversification is Difficult, but Necessary
- Some Early Lessons From the Tariff Tantrum
- Spreading Your Bets
- What Now? An Investor’s To-Do List for Chaotic Markets
- Why Now Is the Perfect Time to Kick Off Next Year’s Taxes
Finance Friday Articles
- A Short History of Tariffs
- Don’t Deprive Yourself While Living Below Your Means
- Finding Certainty in a Sea of Uncertainty
- Giving Advice
- How Bad Could This Get?
- How Doctors Can Maximize Their Earning Potential with an Unconventional Career
- How Flexible Might You Have to Be in Retirement?
- How Long Does it Take for the Market to Recover?
- Joe Davis addresses tariffs, market volatility
- Making Lemonade
- Market turmoil: The near-term economic outlook
- Track Your Financial Goals with These 4 Measurements
- Unfolding trade situation calls for investor discipline
- What To Do During a Stock Market Downturn
- You Know Nothing—Embrace That and You’ll Earn a Decent Return
Finance Friday Articles
- Get Used to Losing Money
- How to Avoid Unexpected Costs When Filing Taxes After Leaving Service
- Relevant Changes to Student Loans in 2025: What Borrowers Need to Know
- What to Know If You’re a 1099 Independent Contractor
- Why Financial Scammers Are So Successful Targeting Doctors
- Why I Don’t Go for 0% Financing Deals (Anymore)
- Why International Stocks Are Suddenly Outperforming
- Your Guide to TSP Investments
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