personal finance
Finance Friday Articles
- 5 Good Times to Retire (and 1 Bad Time)
- 10 Things I’ve Learned About Wealth Management in 10 Years
- Charitable gifting basics: Timing, type, and tax
- How to Handle Taxes Owed on TSP Roth Conversions? Use a Ladder
- International equities: Will the performance continue?
- Is It Time to Raise Some Cash?
- Tax-Deferred Retirement Accounts: A Gift from the Government
- Taxes Due on In-Plan Roth Conversions Cannot be Taken From TSP Money
- The Three Biggest Problems With FIRE
- Why a HELOC Can Be a Smart Financial Tool for Physicians
- Why ‘Going 1099’ Won’t Solve All Your Financial Problems
Finance Friday Articles
- A Classic “Efficient Market” Example
- A terrific environment for bonds
- Inventing Problems
- My Hopes For You
- Roth in-plan conversions coming to the TSP in January 2026
- Should Doctors Consider Angel Investing? The Other 5% of Your Money
- The National Debt and World War III — How Should Politics Affect Your Investing Strategy?
- Trump Account: IRA for Kids With No Earned Income
- TSP Adds Detail to Upcoming Roth Conversion Feature
- Whistling Past the Graveyard
Finance Friday Articles
- 13 Things You Can Pay for with Pre-Tax Dollars
- 30 Years
- 75% of Alternative Mutual Funds Have Died. There Are Lessons in That for Would-Be Private Market Investors
- Are We at Bubble-Level Valuations?
- At What Point Do Passive Investing (Boglehead) Principles Not Apply?
- Calculator: Effect of Higher SALT Cap in 2025 Trump Tax Law
- How Much Disability Insurance Should You Buy?
- Inflation from tariffs likely gradual
- Scammers Present ‘Persistent Threat’ to Servicemembers and Veterans, Expert Warns
- When Is It OK to Start Enjoying Your Money?
Finance Friday Articles
- Does Long-Term-Care Insurance Add Up?
- Downward Trend Continues for Future Military Pay Raises
- Hiring a Nanny? Here’s What You Need to Know About the ‘Nanny Tax’
- How to Survive Residency as a Single Earner with Kids
- Is this 1996 or 1999?
- Mind the Gap 2025 – The more investors traded, the less they made (PDF below)
- Morningstar Mind the Gap Again Shows Investors Do Well With Target-Date and Balanced Funds
- The Dividend Irrelevance Theory
- Tripling Your Net Worth in 5 Years
- Where Have All the Contrarians Gone?
Finance Friday Articles
- Breaking Down The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: Impact Of New Laws On Tax Planning
- How to Choose Insurance Policies
- How to Start Investing in Real Estate
- Iron Laws of the Stock Market
- Mitigating 401(k) leakage with emergency savings
- Reasons Not to Use ToD/PoD Beneficiary Designations
- The Big Secret to Long-Term Investment Success
- What to Do About the Vanguard Automated Cost Basis Email
- Worth 1,000 Words
Finance Friday Articles
- $1,000 Charity Donation Deduction in the 2025 Trump Tax Law
- Average Investment Return Rate (ROI)
- Deductible Car Loan Interest in the New 2025 Trump Tax Law
- Going to Extremes
- How to Get Real Financial Advice If You Need It
- Is the American Medical Association (AMA) Disability Plan Worth It?
- Lessons learned from a military do-it-yourself move gone wrong
- Nothing Works All the Time
- Tax Deductions: Above-the-Line, Itemized, and Neither
- The Best Leading Indicator of Wealth
- The Best Time to Invest
- Try a Mini-Retirement
- Wall Street is Challenging the Low-Cost-Investing Revolution
- Zero-sum Thinking and the Labor Market
Finance Friday Articles
- 5 Ways to Retire with $5 Million by Age 55
- 11 Things I’ve Learned as a Financial Planner
- Estimated Taxes and the Safe Harbor Rule
- Know Why You Own Each of Your Investments
- Leaving Service? Here’s What You Can Do With Your TSP Account
- Physician Finances: Fix Common Planning Gaps
- Reference guide for advisors on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
- Should My TSP Investments Change at Retirement?
- The Death of the Amex Lounge: Why the Upper Middle Class Isn’t Special Anymore
- Top 16 Asset Protection Strategies for Doctors
- Trump Accounts — What to Know About This ‘Baby Bonus’ from the One Big Beautiful Bill
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