Dying with Millions
Lawrence recently wrote in: Dear Jesse, My wife is 70 and I’m about to turn 70, and we’ve been retired for 8 years, and even… Read More »Dying with Millions
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Investing & Retirement
Should you be hand-picking stocks? Timing the market? Or taking the “lazy portfolio” way out?
Investing and Retirement are complicated and consequential topics. The articles below address these complex ideas.
I hope you enjoy them! And let me know what other questions you’d like me to dig into.
The Negative Arts of Money and Paddle
“You have a better chance of improving by getting rid of bad traits rather than acquiring new ones.”
Portfolios Are Up How Much?!?!
The past four months are a terrific reminder that most of the time, your investment portfolio progresses upward, and does so quietly. The economy is not the market. The news is not the market. If you allow headlines to inform your investment decisions, you’ll quietly lose out on double-digit gains.
Don’t Be A Dummy. Be A Chicken.
Most good habits don’t have a “set it and forget it” solution. They take work. But investors have it easy. Unless, that is, you’re being a dummy.
The Easiest Money That Investors Ignore
How does the average investor underperform the market by 4% per year? They’re missing the easy money.
Even “Experts” Measure Stupidly
Even the New York Times can get their math dangerously wrong.
A Cold Lesson from the Buffalo Blizzard
Buffalo got crushed by this storm. But probably NOT in the way you think. And there’s a valuable lesson we can learn from it.
Financial Mass Destruction
In 2002, Warren Buffett wrote: Charlie [Munger] and I are of one mind in how we feel about derivatives and the trading activities that go… Read More »Financial Mass Destruction
Room For Error
What one famous writer, two famous investors, and a pack of famous dogs can teach us about avoiding big mistakes.
Roth is Better Than Traditional?
Readers had some awesome questions after my recent post about after-tax returns. Including, “So Roth is better than Traditional, right?”