Photo by Megan Ruth on Unsplash Important: Investing for the long-term. Think decades. My holding period for VTSAX is forever, other than maybe selling a few shares while living on my portfolio. I am investing for generations. Unimportant: Market Crashes. These are an expected part of the process, like blizzards in New England and hurricanes… [Continue Reading]
Season’s Greetings!!
Before the week slips away I just wanted to take a moment to wish you and yours…. A very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful Holiday Season Here’s to a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!
The Price of Security
Photo courtesy of Billy Kaderli “Funny, no one has a crystal ball, no one knows the future but all say the stock market WILL go up in the future. Maybe we’re the generation that our kids will also look and say: ‘They gambled everything in the stock market thinking it would keep always going up…’”… [Continue Reading]
JLCollinsnh.com Enters New Era
In the beginning… Forgive me if you have heard this tale before. I’ve told it several times now on various podcasts. It is the origin story of this blog. Back in 2011 I began writing a series of letters to my then college age daughter about things financial. See, in the years before… [Continue Reading]
Season’s Greetings!!
Before the day slips away I just wanted to take a moment to wish you and yours…. A very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful Holiday Season Here’s to a Happy, Healthy(!) and Prosperous New Year! *****************************************************
The new book is out!
Check out the ultra cool cover by Jess LaGreca This is a very visual book. It is the painful tale of my very first real estate purchase and how it morphed into an even worse real estate investment. It is a litany of almost all the mistakes one can make, and how I made them…. [Continue Reading]
The Alfred Hitchcock Path to FI
Running from 1955 to 1965 Alfred Hitchcock, the famous director of The Birds and Psycho, had a weekly TV series. It was focused on crime, mostly murder. If you have cable, you can catch these as reruns even today. It is surprising how well they hold up, at least for me, in our modern day…. [Continue Reading]
Mariah International: All that glitters…
This… Is in here… All this excitement surrounding GameStop of late has made me a bit nostalgic. It brings back memories, although not necessarily good ones. Still, time passes, wounds heal and we can look back on our foibles with perspective if not humor. Nothing is more intoxicating than picking a stock and watching it… [Continue Reading]
How to give when you have a business
A few years back, three very different things happened and, to the best of my recollection they didn’t happen all that close together. First, in 2012, I wrote the post How to Give Like a Billionaire. In it I described how to use Donor Advised Funds (DAF) to maximize your tax deduction for your charitable… [Continue Reading]
Reviewing the comments on my post of April 1st
Boy howdy. I’m going to have to be sure to look more carefully at the calendar before I put up a post with momentous news. Thank you for the outpouring of your mostly kind and creative comments on it. I’m impressed. Not one of you seriously believed I’d cracked the market timing code. Knowing how… [Continue Reading]
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