What caught my eye this week. The FIRE1 gospel has probably spread so widely because people can quickly grasp the point of Retiring Early, even if they struggle with the airier notion of Financial Independence. Wrap-up it up in a catchy acronym like FIRE and boom! A meme was born. Just compare FIRE to a […]

Every now and then someone sends me their portfolio for thoughts and suggestions. One particularly stuck in my mind because it’s the type of portfolio I could have had if events had turned out differently. Reviewing it made me feel like I’d been transported to an alternate timeline. One of those parallel universes where the […]

This article on the importance of your savings rate is by Budgets and Beverages from Team Monevator. Check back every Monday for more fresh perspectives from the Team. I have a new hero in life. His name is Tony Stark. You might know him as Iron Man. Tony Stark is a superhero and plays a […]

What caught my eye this week. Sooner or later in any survival drama, half the survivors walk out on the other half in search of a better future. Sure, they’re all safer together in the camp. But that also sucks – what with the dull food and the claustrophobia and the love triangles and the […]

Fuel shortages, an energy crisis, the Winter of Discontent reboot… There’s been so many callbacks to the 1970s lately I’m dusting off my flares. By which I mean the absurdest trouser style in history – not my emergency distress fireworks. Still, it’s hard not to FREAKOUT when the Slow & Steady portfolio got SLAUGHTERED 0.36% […]