Once again the blog is closing up for some R&R holiday time. You’ll still be able to poke around to your heart’s content, but I won’t be available to respond to questions or comments until after the New Year. But before this year slips away, I did want to say…. Have a Wonderful Holiday and… [Continue Reading]
Archives for December 2013
Betterment: a simpler path to wealth
Make it so, Mr. Data. One of the things I’ve learned in the 2.5 years I have been writing this blog is just how many people there are whose eyes begin to glaze over at the mere mention of investing. They know it is important but their mind just shuts down when the topic comes… [Continue Reading]
Case Study 6: Helping an ill and elderly parent
(Not actually Colin, his mother or sister) Courtesy of Visual Photos In today’s Case Study reader Colin offers us a chance to take a look at a tough situation many us have had or will have to deal with at some point. Many years ago, I did myself and with a situation eerily similar to… [Continue Reading]
Stocks — Part XX: Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders from a Mad Fientist
Albert Einstein in fine form I like smart people. People who can make me sit back and think, Mmmm. I never thought of that. Or I never thought of that in quite that way. In most fields where I have a lay interest, physics or anthropology or evolution or psychology for example, this is not… [Continue Reading]