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Personal finance links: slowing down

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humbledollar.com) Tony Isola, "Withdrawal rates are more than numbers on a spreadsheet." awealthofcommonsense.com) The math on downsizing your house isn't working as well these days. (open.spotify.com) Peter Dunn on understanding your relationship with money. open.spotify.com) Retirement Nine things to consider in retirement.

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Personal finance links: paying for the life you want

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financialducksinarow.com) Retirement The math behind savings rates and retiring early. dariusforoux.com) Society New car prices are out of the reach of an increasing number of Americans. (thisisthetop.substack.com) Charlie wants to be a neobank for seniors. techcrunch.com) Medicare Nothing about Medicare is simple.

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You can’t handle the truth – Do the Math on the 2023 Bull Market

David Nelson

Even with that as a continued threat, evidence continues to mount that an ever-rising number of companies are starting to participate in the most hated bull market of my career. Do the Math Let’s do the math. In fact, more than 500 stocks in the index are up more than 30% year to date. Let’s take a look.

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The Evolution of Financial Advice

A Wealth of Common Sense

To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. You need to understand corporations and the global economy generally function over the long haul. You also need a deep understanding of financial market history from booms to.

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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

This article obviously favors more stocks but an interesting thing not said was at what number would it make sense to just flip from individual holdings to mutual funds and ETFs. In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. The rental market slowdown in finally reflected in inflation numbers Source: Apartment List Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. Buffett won).

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Saturday links: hospitality and sophistication

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(apnews.com) Travel There is a growing number of hotel brands. popsci.com) Science Google DeepMind solved a previously unsolvable math problem. slate.com) Chronic fatigue A better estimate of the number of people with chronic fatigue syndrome in the U.S. wsj.com) How to ship your baggage ahead of your flight.

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