Intro by JL’s Team If you’re wondering if renting vs owning your house is a better choice for financial independence, you’re not alone. A lot of people struggle with this choice. With current interest rates on a 30-year fixed mortgage hovering between 6–7%, it’s more critical than ever to do the math. In this post,… [Continue Reading]
What Poker, Basketball and Mike Whitaker taught me about Luck
Here’s a little thought experiment. Consider all the people you’ve known for a moment. Now focus on the five who have been least successful and the five who have achieved the most. Ask yourself, what is their attitude regarding luck? In my experience the contrast is striking. What I notice is this: Less successful people… [Continue Reading]
How to Give Like a Billionaire: Vanguard, Tax Deductions, & Nuns
I know what you’re thinking. For sometime now you’ve been wondering what exactly Mr. and Mrs. jlcollinsnh have in common with Bill and Melinda Gates. Here it is: We both have Charitable Foundations Now you’re thinking, “I knew it! jlcollinsnh is a billionaire!” In this you’d be, sadly I must say, mistaken. More monk than… [Continue Reading]
Go ahead, make my day
Self portrait Or maybe Clint Eastwood A few days ago I received this email: “Apreciado Jim: Un real . You are over the top for a blog (lot’s of our age people don’t even know what that is) and I am blown away with all of the great stuff that you have on the site…. [Continue Reading]
Muk Finds Success in Tahiti
Let’s run away together One day, many years ago, I was having an especially bad day at work. Late in the afternoon I called my not-yet-then-but-soon-to-be wife and said: “I’m sick of this crap. Let’s quit our jobs and run away to Tahiti.” I’m not entirely sure I knew where Tahiti was at the time…. [Continue Reading]
Travels with “Esperando un Camino”
Esperando un Camino In my office there is a bronze sculpture we acquired in Madrid, Spain some 25 years ago. It is about a foot tall and depicts a young woman. She is barefoot and has long flowing hair. Dressed in a peasant blouse and long skirt, she stands with her hands on her hips… [Continue Reading]
Beanie Babies, Naked Barbie, American Pickers and Old Coots
As we begin preparing for our move we’ve been poking thru our various boxes and bins looking for stuff we don’t want to pay to move. Which, for me, is just about everything. I love getting rid of stuff. In one of those plastic bins (the oversized version) is my daughter’s collection of Beanie Babies. … [Continue Reading]
Selling the House and Adventures in Staging
Each winter up here in the wilds of New Hampshire we get ice and snow storms. Then the power goes out. Soon the neighborhood is humming with the sounds of generators as folks flip the appropriate switch and electricity flows back along its appointed rounds. Except at my house. After living here 12 years… [Continue Reading]
Index Investing, A Brief History of Vanguard, and the Case for Average Returns
Over on the post Magic Beans reader Mark had this to say in the comments: “Being a Boglehead myself, I read the ERE article to see what he had to say. I had to sigh when I got to this: “Index investing is basically equivalent to a buy and hold strategy with very low turnover of a… [Continue Reading]
Magic Beans
For supposedly rational creatures we humans seem irrationally drawn to Magic Beans. Being a geezer I’ve been around long enough to see quite a few flavors come and go. What they all have in common is that by the time you start reading about them everywhere, the end is near. Let’s see… I remember Growth… [Continue Reading]
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