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One of the most difficult things in life is to know the answer to this question: How to win at life? What exactly is winning? How do you measure success? Is it having a family? Good health? Landing your dream job? Be financial independent? Early Retirement? People “feel” success in different ways, and have different objectives…
The Most Powerful Force of the Universe One of the most cited quotes ever is the one attributed to Albert Einstein, that “compound interest is the most powerful force of the universe”. Although there’s no evidence that Albert Einstein actually said this, the idea behind this sentence is that if you use compound interest in your…
GrowtoRetire.com Weekend Reads Here are the best collection of articles and news just for you. Grab a cup of cappuccino and have a nice day. Personal Growth The formula for winning at life is actually incredibly simple (Quartz) Feeling Burned Out? Here Are 3 Things That Can Help (NY Times) Investing 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses…
Welcome to Grow to Retire’s Best FIRE and Finance Blog Posts. Tips, advice, recommendations and much more from the best bloggers in the world. FIRE Cost of living: Why you should choose a cheap place to live (Get Rich Slowly) “My dividend growth stock portfolio is essentially worth $10,000 for every year I’ve been alive.…
The Berkshire Hathaway meeting is always a moment where you can learn some excellent and eternal lessons (together with some funny remarks as always). This year 2018 meeting wasn’t different. Warren Buffet with Charlie Munger respond to a lot of questions and left 48 answers (ideas) on several topics. Read all of them here. Learning…
For those of you that read this blog on a frequent basis, you already have figured it out that I’m a strong supporter of a passive investment strategy and exchange-traded funds. Read this. I often write about one type of portfolio: 60% stocks + 40% bonds, and rebalance for the rest of your life. Of course,…
GrowtoRetire.com Weekend Reads Here are the best collection of articles and news just for you. Grab a cup of cappuccino and have a nice day. You will find more infographics at Statista Personal Finance What It’s Like to Raise a Family on $57,000 in Houston, Texas (Fatherly) 3 Reasons It’s Dumb to Take Social Security…
A roundup of Sushi Recipes As you probably know, once a month I like to make a roundup of the best recipes I can find. This month is about one of my favorite type of food: sushi. Enjoy and I hope this post inspires you to make the best sushi. Bon appétit! Shaggy Dog Roll Sushi (The…
Blog traffic Report and Social Media Numbers Welcome to the April blog report update! This month I wrote 17 posts. The idea is to make a post about finance/FIRE/blogging on Mondays and Wednesdays. Fridays will be to update roundups about traffic, income, the best FIRE blog posts, and recipes. I want to find the perfect…
What is a Bear Market? Generally speaking, a Bear Market is when the stock prices decline due to a widespread pessimism among investors. In terms of quantifying the definition of a bear market, the most common and accepted is when: there is a downturn of 20 percent or more from a peak in multiple broad market indexes;…
The GrowtoRetire.com Saturday Best is a collection of articles I’ve curated for your reading pleasure. Grab a cup of cappuccino and have a nice day. Investment How to Avoid a Retirement Disaster (Bloomberg) Getting Smart On ETFs (ETF) Bond-Market Bears Are Everywhere (Bloomberg) Passive Investment and Exchange Traded Funds (GrowtoRetire) A Look at WeWork’s Books:…
How to Increase Your Traffic – Learn from other Bloggers When we start a blog, one of the key objectives is to have an audience that actually read what you write. As I’ve written before here: There are right now over 1 billion websites in the world. In terms of blog posts, there are over 2 million published on the…