Learn. Grow. Retire. (Earlier)
One thing that is nice in personal finance and early retirement, is that you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Most of the time you just have to absorb valuable financial lessons, and follow or emulate the good examples. In terms of Financial Independence and Retire Early, quality lessons rarely change over time. Therefore easier…
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you should probably know by now that I’m a strong supporter of Passive Investment and Exchange Traded Funds. This post with +20’000 Views is an example. There’s an ongoing debate about whether if active investing is superior to a simple lazy portfolio or if an active fund…
History means knowledge acquired by investigation. It’s the study of past events, through evidence such as written documents, photos or other items that describe past actions. The importance of studying the history of retirement is that we can learn from previous events, mistakes, or good options in a way that it may be used in…
In a link that you can read below (free tutorial for beginners), one of the ideas that I wrote is “10. Diversification is protection against ignorance“. I continue to believe that for the average joe, without a deep knowledge of the market and/or for investors that don’t have the time or the resources to follow…
The years pass and I see – sometimes more than once – ideas come to live, when historically they have been tried, and then failed miserably. Recently I’ve come across this article, where it’s said that Democrats (US) introduced legislation in the House and Senate to tax financial transactions. US Version of Tobin Tax Under…
Because life isn’t all about personal finance, investments and FIRE community, here you have some facts worth reading. These were all found on the internet, and have thousands of shares and/or views. If you enjoy reading this, share it so others can read it too. Have fun! Paying All Debt President Andrew Jackson successfully paid…
According to an ING global survey, people are worried that won’t have enough money in the retirement phase. Europe, the US, and Australia had an approximately 60% share that ‘agree’ or ‘strongly agree’ with the sentence: “I worry about whether I will have enough money in retirement.” Also, the majority of the respondents believe that…
And here we have a new Berskhire Hathaway 2019 report, but first let’s start out with the returns for the last 10 years: (02/2019)Berkshire Hathaway: +229% IWM: +215%SPY: +201% VT: +102%GLD: +30%EEM: +29%BND: +3% Warren Buffet, one of the world’s most famous investor had one of his worst years ever in 2018. Buffett’s Kraft Heinz…
Economic bubbles are one of the most difficult events to spot of all. Thus very difficult to avoid, let alone do something about it. So why study them at all? History rarely repeats itself (at least not in the exact same way, with the exact same financial assets). On the other hand, we can extract…
First of all, I want to wish all my readers a happy 2019. May all your dreams come true. This post is meant to be an outlook for the new year. Other outlooks that I’ve done can be consulted here. As on other occasions, I will focus on Stocks, Bonds, Oil, Gold, and Real Estate.…
I can’t believe 2018 is already over. It was a great year, and with so many things happening in my life, unfortunately the blog had to be paused for almost 6 months. It’s sad for me but at the same time, when important things arise, we have to make choices. That’s life. Anyway the blog…
The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. The Fed hiked its benchmark short-term interest rate a quarter, from 1.75% to 2%. Why is This Important? Additionally to this increase, the FED raised its forecasts for both economic growth…