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- Is Your Money Safe If Your Bank Fails?
- Silicon Valley Bank Just Failed – Are We All Screwed?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Slovenia: Switzerland without the Lavish Price Tag
- Crypto Staking: Passive Income Generator or Scam?
- Reader Case: Entrepeneurs Closer to Early Retirement Than They Thought
- Canadian Housing: Buy the Dip or Dead Cat Bounce?
- Is ChatGPT Coming to Take Your Job?
- Can The Bank Take Your House Even If You Pay Your Mortgage?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Zagreb, Croatia: Quirky Museums and Eye-Opening History
- Reader Case: How do I Squeeze More Income From my Portfolio?
- Our 2022 Expenses
- Our 2022 Portfolio
- Can You Buy Happiness?
- Which Way Is The Economy Going in 2023?
- What I Learned After 8 Years of Early Retirement
- Is a Buy Signal Flashing for Preferred Shares?
- The Dark Side of Quiet Quitting
- Reader Case: From VP TO FIRE
- How Travelling Saves You Money
- Is it Canada’s Turn for a 2008-Style Housing Crash?
- Reader Case: Swiss Family Early Retirement Plan Upended by the Current Market
- Student Loan Forgiveness: Good Idea or Socialist Giveaway?
- Meet Ken and Mary: Part 2
- Meet Ken and Mary: Nigerian Immigrants who Became FI with 2 kids
- Let’s Go Exploring! Plitvice and Split: Croatian History More Epic Than Game of Thrones
- Reader Case: Should I Rollover my 401(K)?
- Meet Billy and Akaisha, Who FIRE’d 30 years ago! Part 2
- Meet Billy and Akaisha, Who FIRE’d 30 years ago!
- Chautauqua is Back, Baby!
- Reader Case: Should I go To Grad School?
- Has The Stock Market Derailed Your Retirement?
- Reader Case: Feeling Disheartened about FIRE. Please help!
- Is the US in a Recession?
- How to Beat Inflation
- Is Inflation Starting to Peak?
- Reader Case: Can This Family Survive Higher Mortgage Rates?
- Is It Time To Buy Bonds Again?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Zadar, Croatia: The Best Sunset in the World
- Reader Case: House Hacker Dreams of FIRE
- How Much Will House Prices Fall?
- Can Canada Escape a US-Style Housing Crash?
- Reader Case: Is FIRE Attainable for this VanLife Couple?
- Does High Inflation Destroy the 4% Rule?
- How to Travel for Free with Home Exchange
- Will There Be a Recession in 2022?
- How To Avoid Investment Scams
- Reader Case: Lean FIRE or buy a ski studio?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores Part 2
- The Return of Underwater Mortgages
- Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores
- Wise: A Multi-Currency VISA for Travellers
- Making Work From Home Permanent
- How to Invest When the World is on Fire
- Reader Case: I Lost My Job. Then I Lost Money Day Trading.
- How Does The War in Ukraine Affect Financial Markets?
- Reader Case: I’m Scared I Screwed Up My Family’s Future
- Ukraine Bombed And Our Friend is Trapped There
- How to Make Work Sustainable
- How I Got Over My Fear of Early Retirement
- Chautauqua 2022: Come Join Your FI Tribe!
- Investing During High Inflation
- Reader Case: Should this professional actor buy a home?
- Reader Case: It’s Never Too Late to Start
- How FIRE Changes Your Perception of Time
- Our 2021 Portfolio
- Our 2021 Finances
- Reflections on 2021
- Reader Case: Teachers Dreaming of FIRE
- Is This the end of the Backdoor Roth IRA?
- Are You a Time Millionaire?
- Reader Case: ER nurse Wants To Escape
- How to Travel the World with Pets
- Reader Case: Golden Handcuffs
- What is Coast FIRE and is it right for you?
- The Return of Dividends
- Let’s Go Exploring! Atlantic Provinces Part 3: Prince Edward Island
- Should We Spend More?
- Is it Fair for Companies to Slash Pay for Remote Workers?
- Reader Case: A Waiter’s Story of Financial Independence
- Let’s Go Exploring! Atlantic Provinces Part 2: Cape Breton Island
- Reader Case: Military Family Nearing FIRE
- It Just Got Easier to Have Your Student Loans Forgiven
- The Tang Ping Movement: Asia’s First Steps Towards Financial Independence
- Reader Case: Can I Retire on an Office Administrator’s Salary?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Atlantic Provinces Part 1: Halifax
- How to Get Free Bitcoin
- The Conundrum of Home Affordability
- Why Freedom Can Be Scary
- Should You Buy a Co-op?
- The Cheat Code to Financial Independence
- Reader Case: Can We Afford to Leave the US?
- Why Women Are Better At Investing
- Will the Delta Variant Cause a New Recession?
- Reaching Financial Independence in Poland
- Reader Case: Can Costa Rica Save Their Retirement?
- Where Should We Go Next?
- Have The Roaring Twenties Begun?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Victoria BC: The Warmest (-ish) Place in Canada
- Will Runaway Inflation Derail The Recovery?
- How to Evict Your Tenant
- Reader Case: Retiring Earlier as an Expat
- How To Sue Your Landlord and Win
- Reader Case: Fur Baby FIRE
- How To Build Your Own All-In-One Fund Using Passiv
- Reader Case: Not Your Typical FIRE Couple
- Should Governments Meddle with the Rental Market?
- Reader Case: Van Living
- Are Unemployed People Refusing to Work?
- What Nomadland Taught Me About FIRE
- Reader Case: Producers Dreaming of Partial FIRE
- Is Joe Biden coming for your Money?
- Reader Case: Semi-Retired Couple Wants a Condo
- Does FIRE Prevent Divorces?
- FIREDating App’s Creator Speaks Out
- Reader Case: Golden Handcuffs
- How Not To Lose Yourself in Retirement
- Finding Love During Covid
- Is It Time To Ditch Bonds?
- Are Most Degrees Useless?
- Why Gamestop investors Should NOT Invest in Index Funds
- Let’s Go Exploring! Stockholm, Sweden: Dark, Twisted, and Beautiful
- Should Student Debt Be Forgiven?
- Reader Case: No Degree. No Problem.
- Is It Time To Buy a Condo?
- How to Negotiate Rent Part 2
- Reader Case: Dentist in Debt
- How to Negotiate Rent
- Can the Gamestop Saga Crash the Stock Market?
- From Broke and Homeless to $100k in 1 Year
- The Wealth Trap
- Our 2020 Finances: How Much Did We Make?
- Our 2020 Finances: How Did Our Portfolio Do?
- Our 2020 Finances
- How Introverts Experience the Holidays
- How 2020 Taught Us What Really Matters
- Reader Case: My Irresponsible Parents Are Destroying My FI Plans!
- How To Travel via Food
- The Eight Stages of Early Retirement
- Joe Biden Wants to Change 401(k) Plans
- Let’s Go Exploring! Boston
- Why the FIRE Space is Full of Introverts
- Reader Case: Artist Family Striving for FIRE in L.A
- How Does a Joe Biden Presidency Affect the FIRE Community?
- Is There Another Upset Coming in the US Election?
- How to Get Free Food from Uber Eats
- What is a K Shaped Recovery?
- Reader Case: Single Mom in Debt
- The Fate of Obamacare: 2020 Edition
- Why is the Stock Market Up While Employment Is Down?
- Reader Case: Choosing Between Health and FIRE
- How Does the Zero-Interest Rate Environment Affect You?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: Futuristic Foodie Paradise
- Find Out the Commuted Value of Your Pension
- Reader Case: Rent or Buy in Spain
- Will COVID Change The Nature of Work Permanently?
- Reader Case: FIRE in the Oil Patch
- Is FIRE for Everyone?
- Investment Workshop 60: Should Questrade Users Sign Up For Passiv?
- Reader Case: Immigrant on FIRE
- How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 6
- The Power Of Forgiveness
- Reader Case: Lawyer in Pain
- How Owning Individual Stocks Can Destroy Your Portfolio
- Let’s Go Exploring! Ubud, Bali: An Instagrammer’s Paradise
- How To Rewire Your Anxious Brain
- Reader Case: Real Estate Regret
- How The Hell Are We Going To Pay For All This Stimulus?
- How Self-Isolation Taught Me About Happiness
- Holy crap, there’s a FIRE dating app!
- How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 5
- Investment Workshop 59: Are Robo-Advisors Compatible With FIRE?
- Reader Case: Grounded in Vancouver and Dreaming of FIRE
- HOW HAS COVID-19 AFFECTED YOUR FIRE JOURNEY? PART 4
- Reader Case: Financial Independence After a LayOff?
- Real Estate Agent Gets Crushed by Real Estate Math
- How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 3
- Investment Workshop 58: Funding our Wealthsimple Accounts
- How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 2
- All the Ways Travel Screws You Up
- Reader Case: House Horny in Florida
- Our Pandemic Portfolio: How are our investments doing?
- How Has Covid-19 Affected Your FIRE Journey? Part 1
- Reader Case: Investing for FIRE in Malaysia
- How Covid-19 Changed Our Budget
- Covid-19: Is this the End of Nomadic Life?
- Keep Your Rent: A Real Estate Investor’s Perspective (Part 2)
- Keep Your Rent: A Real Estate Investor’s Perspective (Part 1)
- Investment Workshop 57: Tax Loss Harvesting
- Reader Case: New York Doctor Dreams of Nomadic FIRE
- The “Keep Your Rent” Movement: Are The Rent Strikers Freeloaders?
- In a Crisis, Cash Flow Is King
- COVID-19: Geographic Arbitrage on Hard Mode
- Return of the Bear Market: Are You Ready?
- Is the Coronavirus the next Black Swan Event?
- Worried About The Coronavirus Impact On Markets?
- Reader Case: Young and Worried About Finances
- From Junkie to FIRE
- Investment Workshop 56: How Does the WealthSimple Portfolio Stack Up?
- Investment Workshop 55: Wealthsimple
- Investment Workshop 54: What About the Robo-Advisors?
- Why The Banks Are Out To Get You
- Our 2019 Finances Part 2
- Our 2019 Finances
- Happy New Year and Reflections on 2019
- Why You Don’t Trade on the News: A 2019 Recap
- Reader Case: Trapped in Success
- Let’s Go Exploring! Taiwan: The Heart of Asia Part 2
- Let’s Go Exploring! Taiwan: The Heart of Asia
- FIRE Doesn’t Fix Everything
- Does It Ever Make Sense to take the 10% Early Withdrawal Penalty?
- Reader Case: Can I Retire to Colombia in 5 Years?
- How To Travel The World Without Killing Your Spouse – Part 2
- How To Travel The World Without Killing Your Spouse
- Reader Case: Take a Stressful Job to get to FI Faster?
- Chautauqua Portugal 2019: What Makes You Happy?
- Guest Interview with Craig, Author and House Hacker Extraordinaire
- Book Review: Choose FI, Your Blueprint to Financial Independence
- At Chautauqua, Drinking Port.
- Reader Case: Going Back To School In His 50’s
- Are You a Good Fit for FIRE?
- Is FIRE a Cult?
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Terrifying Love Story of Coimbra, Portugal
- Is there a Recession Coming?
- Would You Sell Everything to Travel the World?
- Reader Case: At the Starting Line to FIRE
- The Life Changing Magic of FIRE
- Should I Quit My Job To Follow My Passion Before I Hit Financial Independence?
- QUIT LIKE A MILLIONAIRE is Now Published!
- Reader Case: Start Early, Retire Early
- Chautauqua UK 2019: A Week Together With Our Tribe
- Playing with FIRE: London Movie Premiere
- Reading Your Own Book Is Harder Than You Think
- Quit Like a Millionaire is Available for Pre-Order!
- Reader Case: Keep Calm and FIRE On
- The US China Trade War
- Let’s Go Exploring! Sintra: Fairy Tales and Farts
- Reader Case: Should I Buy a House as a Passive Investment?
- FUD, FOMO and Bitcoin
- Let’s Go Exploring! Lagos, Portgual: Are You a Mountain or a Beach Person?
- Why I won’t Touch Cryptocurrencies and Neither Should You
- Reader Case: Condos and Crypto
- How to Travel the World Before Becoming FI
- Let’s Go Exploring! Malaga, an Ancient City with Castles and Beaches
- Ultrashort Bond ETFs
- Reader Case: Stuck with a Crappy Investment Advisor
- Book Giveaway: Broke Millennial Takes On Investing
- Let’s Go Exploring! Seville, the Birthplace of World Travel
- Reader Case: Retiring Early in Florida
- Does the Yield Curve Inverting Mean a Recession is Coming?
- Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?
- Reader Case: Can’t Wait to Travel
- Let’s Go Exploring! Madrid, the Food or Food Poisoning Capital of the World?
- Reader Case: Is it EVER OK to Buy a House?
- The Yield Shield: How It Protects You From Recessions
- Let’s Go Exploring! Malta: An Undiscovered Paradise?
- Behind the Scenes of an International Film Shoot
- Reader Case: Should I Enter The Market?
- How Does a Pension Affect My 401(k)/RRSP Withdrawal?
- Book Review: Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier
- How Chautauqua Rewired my Brain
- Reader Case: Bay Area Conundrum
- Norbert’s Gambit: How to Exchange Money Without Paying Fees
- Let’s Go Exploring! How the Finns Beat Winter
- Our 2018 finances Part 3
- Reader Case: Can this 24-year-old from DC Retire Early?
- Our 2018 Finances Part 2
- How to Become FI with 6 Kids, Zero Privilege, and a Small Salary
- Our 2018 Finances
- Happy New Year 2019!
- You Can’t be On FIRE if You Can’t Stand the Heat
- Reader Case: Does FIRE Math Apply to the Elderly?
- How To Invest in the U.A.E.
- Let’s Go Exploring! Estonia: The Silicon Valley of Europe
- How Much Are You Paying to Work?
- Reader Case Update: The South Korean English Teacher Returns
- The Hedonic Treadmill of Smart Phones
- Let’s Go Exploring! Riga: A Hidden Foodie Paradise
- Quit Like a Millionaire: First Draft Done!
- Reader Case: Injured and can’t work, am I going be OK?
- Technology is Making it Easier Than Ever to Become F.I.
- Let’s Go Exploring! Vilnius: The G-Spot of Europe?
- How To Get A Raise: The Less Traveled Path To Financial Independence
- Reader Case: Twenty Five To Life
- Why You Should Be Happy The Markets Are Crashing
- Let’s Go Exploring! Gdansk: History Comes to Life
- There’s Something Special About Chautauquans
- Week 2 at Chautauqua Greece!
- Gone for Chautauqua in Greece!
- Reader Case: Okee from Muskogee
- Why Suze Orman is Clueless about the FIRE Movement
- Let’s Go Exploring! Iceland: Fire and Ice and Surprisingly Nice Part 3
- Who’s FIRE’d up about the FIRE Movie?
- Reader Case Update: How Do I Stop The Bleeding 2
- Who Should Contribute to a 529 Plan?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Iceland: Fire and Ice and Surprisingly Nice Part 2
- The Case Against FIRE
- Reader Case: Retiring Early With a Pension
- Investing For Your Kid’s College Education: The Rule of 5
- Let’s Go Exploring! Iceland: Fire and Ice and Surprisingly Nice
- Guest Interview: Surviving 2008 in Early Retirement
- Reader Case: House Horny in France
- Fidelity’s Zero-Fee Index Funds: What’s the Catch?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Off the Beaten Path: Aachen, Mulheim, Duisburg, Dusseldorf
- What Should You Do After FI? Build Your Talent Stack.
- Reader Case: Crossroads in Oil Country
- Why We Can’t Stop Travelling
- Let’s Go Exploring! Hanover: Help, the Machines Have Taken Over!
- Birthing a Book Baby
- Reader Case: Locked-In Pension Holding Me Back!
- How to Retire Early with a Locked-In Pension
- Let’s Go Exploring! Searching for Hamburgers in Hamburg
- How to Respond to Trolls
- Reader Case: Home Owner Can’t Stop Spending
- Why You Shouldn’t Buy Target Date Funds
- Let’s Go Exploring! Bremen, Germany: Saunas, Secret Rooms, and Schnoor Quarter
- How to Deal with Unsupportive Family and Friends on Your Way to FI
- Case Study: Boomer Asks Millennial For Retirement Advice
- What We’ve Learned Doing Reader Cases
- Let’s Go Exploring! Poznan, Poland: Enigmas, Goats, and Naked Saunas
- The Truth About Financial Independence
- Reader Case: I Own 4 Houses, Can I Retire?
- Guest Post on GoCurryCracker: Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Let’s Go Exploring! Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Weirdest Food Ever
- The F*ck-over-ability Index
- Case Study: Big Dreams With Big Debt
- The Importance of Slack
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Magic of Porto, Portugal
- Unexpected Income: Are We Un-Retiring?
- Reader Case: Living Big in the City
- How to Avoid Paying Bank Fees While Traveling
- Let’s Go Exploring! Tenerife: The Volcanic Mountains of Doom
- Broke Ass Morons
- Friday Reader Case: Where Are They Now?
- How to Motivate Yourself in Retirement
- Let’s Go Exploring! Las Palmas: Spanish Paradise with a Tiny Price Tag
- The Yield Shield: Taxes
- Reader Case: Laid Off With a Condo
- Does Early Retirement Make You Lazy?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Galapagos Part 3: Scary Boat Ride to Isabela
- The Yield Shield: Putting it all Together
- Friday Reader Case: Retiring Early with 4 Kids and a Postal Worker’s Salary?
- Derek Foster: Canada’s Other Youngest Retiree
- Let’s Go Exploring! Galapagos Part 2: The Giant Tortoises of Santa Cruz
- The Yield Shield: Dividend Stocks
- Friday Reader Case: How Should I Position My Portfolio For Retirement?
- How to Build a Profitable Side Hustle
- Let’s Go Exploring! Galapagos: Sea Lion Shenanigans and Swimming with Sharks
- The Yield Shield: Corporate Bonds & High Yield Bonds
- Do You Want to Be a TV Star?
- Friday Reader Case: Our Failed Muskoka Dream
- The Yield Shield: Real Estate Investment Trusts
- The Hard Landing: Toronto Home Prices Plummet
- The Yield Shield: Preferred Shares
- How To Early Retire in the UK
- Friday Reader Case: Got Student Loans and Don’t have a 6-Figure Salary. Can I Still Retire Early?
- How We Plan To Change Our Equity Allocation In Retirement
- Why Opportunities Are like Poker Chips
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Real Reason Why the Berlin Wall Fell
- What We Learned Playing Robert Kiyosaki’s Cashflow Board Game
- We Signed a Book Deal!
- Friday Case: I Love My Job, Should I Bother Becoming Financially Independent?
- Contagion
- Are You Gritty Enough to Become Financially Independent?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Piestany and Bratislava: Slovakian Spa Paradise
- Volatility Is Not Your Enemy
- What Did the Neighbours Pay?!?
- Chautauqua: Come Join the Family!
- How To Get Your Money Out Of Your 401(k) Before 59 1/2
- I Used To Be a Hater
- Friday Reader Case: Would You Rather Have One Million in Debt or One Million in Assets?
- How To Make a Backdoor Roth IRA Contribution
- How To Retire in Europe Permanently Using the Spanish Non-Lucrative Visa
- Let’s Go Exploring! Slovakia and the Tatra Mountains
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bond Bubble?
- Why Pride of Ownership is B.S.
- Friday Reader Case: Retire in our 40s with 3 kids to Travel the World?
- How to Stay in Europe for More Than 90 days
- How Do I Get Out Of Student Debt?!?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Auschwitz: My Most Memorable Experience in Poland
- Why the Trump Tax Cuts Make Early Retirees Richer
- New Years Resolutions 2018!
- Merry Christmas!
- Reader Case: Can a New Immigrant with Debt, Kids, and College Costs Still Retire Early?
- How to Withdraw From Your Portfolio In Retirement
- How to be on FIRE in Brazil
- Let’s Go Exploring! Zakopane: Are We In Poland or the Canadian Rockies?
- Investment Workshop 53: Wrapping It Up
- Don’t Let Fun Hold You Back
- Friday Reader Case: Help! My Kids Are Holding Me Back
- The Five Stages of Early Retirement
- Let’s Go Exploring! Poland: A Hidden Gem and the Surprise of a Life Time
- How Not to Deplete Your Portfolio in Retirement
- Guest Interview: Life and Money Lessons from Jail Part 2
- Reader Case : Need Help with my Tiger Mom!
- Guest Interview: Life and Money Lessons I Learned from Jail
- Let’s Go Exploring! Costa Rica: The Good, the Bad, and the Terrible
- The Three Paths to Financial Independence
- Friday Reader Case: Reformed Debt-Junkie Wants to Retire with Kids
- Investment Workshop 49: Expat Insurance
- Don’t Let Comparisons Derail Your FIRE Journey
- Let’s Go Exploring! Scared Shitless in Bocas Del Toro
- Investment Workshop 48: How to Rebalance Your Portfolio
- Scaling the Wall of Fear
- FinCon Madness!
- Chautauqua Ecuador Recap: Facing Your Fears
- Investment Workshop 46: Shortened Chautauqua Edition
- Chautauqua Ecuador: The Super-Villainy Continues…
- Reader Case: Should I Take a Handout From My Parents?
- How To Plan Your Nomadic Flights
- How To Plan Your Nomadic Life
- Let’s Go Exploring! Boquete, Panama: Coffee, Hot Springs, Lush Green Forests
- Investment Workshop 45: How to Become Financially Independent in Germany #2
- Going Paleo: How to Get a Thin Waist and a Fat Wallet
- Friday Reader Case: Moving to Alaska. Should I Buy A House?
- Investment Workshop 44: How to Become Financially Independent in Germany
- The 3 Types of People You Need to Accomplish Anything
- Let’s Go Exploring! Panama City: A Nerdtastic Paradise
- The Internet Retirement Police Strikes Again!
- Staying Motivated On Your Way to Financial Independence
- Friday Reader Case: My Mortgage Is Underwater. Am I Screwed?
- Investment Workshop 43: Socially Responsible Investing
- When Should You Give up?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Puebla: Big City with Small Town Vibe
- Investment Workshop 42: Double-Fisting your Retirement Accounts
- Why Don’t You Get Me? The Science Behind Logic and Emotion
- Reader Case: Can This Chicagoan Retire by 45?
- Investment Workshop 41: How Painful Will the Housing Crash Be?
- Confessions of a Former Purse Addict
- Let’s Go Exploring! Oaxaca: The Chiang Mai of Mexico
- Why You Have To Forgive Yourself
- Chautauqua UK: The Greatest Week of Our Lives
- Why I Love my FI Blogger Peeps
- Investment Workshop 40: Still at Chautauqua
- Chautauqua UK
- Reader Case: Trying to Swim with a Boulder Tied To Your Leg
- Investment Workshop 39: Investing With Debt
- Will Trump Kill the Mortgage Interest Deduction?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Chichen Itza: The Scariest Place in Mexico
- Investment Workshop 38: Currency Hedging
- The True Value of Money
- Reader Case: Do Higher Returns or Higher Savings Help You Retire Faster?
- Investment Workshop 37: HISA-Hopping
- How to Hack Your Brain for FIRE
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Terrifying Truth About Mexico City
- Investment Workshop 36: Obamacare Repeal 3
- Spend Less. Be Happy.
- Reader Case: Can I Afford my Big Goals with a Small Income?
- Investment Workshop 35: Did Canada’s Housing Crash Just Start?
- Rent More. Own Less.
- Let’s Go Exploring! Siem Reap & Sihanoukville: Cheap and Chillaxing
- Investment Workshop 34: Paying Your Student Debt With Your 401(k)
- Here’s To You
- Reader Case: I Have 2 Kids And Only Spend $48,000/year. When Can I Retire?
- Investment Workshop 33: Why Accredited Investors Keep Getting Scammed
- Budgets Suck. Do this instead.
- Let’s Go Exploring! Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Proof that Your Problems Aren’t Real Problems
- Investment Workshop 32: Up Goes Interest Rates
- Is Too Much Freedom Bad for You?
- Reader Case: Can I Retire at 45 to Become a Yoga Teacher?
- Investment Workshop 31: Why Everyone Needs Passive Income
- Cost Of Travelling the World For 1 Year, Part 4: Travel Insurance
- Let’s Go Exploring! South Korea and Old Man Balls
- Investment Workshop 30: What the F@#$ Is Opportunity Cost?
- Worldschooling: An Interview From a Kid’s Perspective (Part 2)
- Reader Case: Buying a House in La La Land
- Investment Workshop 29: Why You Want Liquidity
- Worldschooling: An Interview From a Kid’s Perspective
- Let’s Go Exploring! Cancun and Tulum: Under the Sea
- Investment Workshop 28: How to Pay Off Your Student Debt With Your 401(k)
- The Millennial Revolution Turns 1 Year Old!
- Reader Case: Big Earnings, Big Student Debt
- Investment Workshop 27: Are We In a Bubble?
- Why Privilege Makes You Soft
- Let’s Go Exploring! Kyoto, Osaka, and Nara: I Get Attacked!
- Investment Workshop 26: Why We Don’t Invest Based on the News
- What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?
- Reader Case: Should I Become a Manwhore?
- Investment Workshop 25: Obamacare Repeal…Again
- Your Thoughts on Government Intervention
- Let’s Go Exploring! Japan: Tremendous and Terrifying
- Investment Workshop 24: Mortgage Backed Securities and Why They Cause Housing Crashes
- Should the Government Mess with the Housing Market?
- Reader Case: Pay Off Debt or Invest
- Investment Workshop 23: How Much Insurance Do I Need?
- Why You Should Let Your Kids Fail
- Let’s Go Exploring! Merida and Cuzama: Cenotes, Where Have You Been All My Life?
- Investment Workshop 22: Interest Rates and Bonds
- How to Travel the World with School-Aged Kids
- Why We Write
- Investment Workshop 21: Inflation II: This Time it’s PERSONAL
- Frugal Hookups: The Sticky Aftermath
- Let’s Go Exploring! Hoi An, Hanoi, and Cat Ba: Searching for the World’s Best Banh Mi
- Investment Workshop 20: Health Care, The Trump Slump, and Why Predictions Suck
- Frugal Hookups
- Reader Case: Starting Over at 35
- Investment Workshop 19: Inflation
- Why You Should Marry a Frugal Freak
- Let’s Go Exploring! Vietnam: The Country Travellers Love to Hate
- Investment Workshop 18: How to Manage Your Portfolio After Your Retire in Your 30’s
- How To Get Your Spouse Aboard the FI Train
- Reader Case: Want to Retire but Trapped in a 1.6 Million Dollar House
- BIG Chautauqua Announcement!
- Side Hustles: What It Takes to Publish a Book
- Reader Case: Can We Retire in 7 Years?
- Investment Workshop 17: The Math Behind the Trump Rally
- Financial Independence for the Military – Part 2
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Land of a Thousand Smiles Part 4 (The last one I promise)
- What I Learned Thinking I Was Going to Die
- Financial Independence for the Military
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Land of a Thousand Smiles Part 3
- Investment Workshop 16: Withdrawing From Your Portfolio Part 2
- The Five Types of People You’ll Meet on Your Way to FI
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Land of a Thousand Smiles Part 2
- Investment Workshop 15: Withdrawing From Your Portfolio
- How to Live Life with No Regrets
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Land of a Thousand Smiles Part 1
- Canadian Investors Conference. YAY! FREE SHIT!
- Investment Workshop 14: The Trump Effect
- The First Million (Views) Is the Hardest
- Let’s Go Exploring! Malaysia: 4 Star Experience. 2 Star Price Tag.
- Investment Workshop 13: Dividends, Glorious Dividends
- What It Takes to Succeed
- Investment Workshop 12: Emotions & Investing
- Do You Have the Right Personality for FIRE (Part 2)?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Singapore: All Food. All the Time.
- Investment Workshop 11: Understanding Your ETF’s
- Do You Have the Right Personality for FIRE?
- Investment Workshop 10: Happy New Year!
- Chautauqua UK: A Cackling Good Time for All
- Happy New Year! Now Let’s Grab 2017 by the Balls!
- Let’s Go Exploring! Santorini and Ios Greece: Glorious Sunsets, Cliffside Views, and Fantastic Value
- Investment Workshop 9: Stupid Holidays
- Merry Christmas! Apparently.
- Reader Case: I have 3 Kids. Can My Wife Retire From Her Job?
- Investment Workshop 8: World Unsteady, But Portfolio Calm
- The Truth About Early Retirement
- An Interview with The Godfather…of Financial Independence
- Investment Workshop 7: Time To Buy our ETF’s
- The Cost of Travelling the World for 1 Year, Part 3: Accommodations and Transportation
- Let’s Go Exploring! Budapest: Spas and Communism. A Winning Combination!
- Investment Workshop 6: Making Your Investments Tax-Free
- Cost of Travelling the World for 1 Year, Part 2: Packing
- Chatting Up a Storm with…the Mad Fientist!
- Investment Workshop 5: Setting Up Personal Capital
- The Cost of Travelling the World for a Year
- Reader Case: A Million Dollars by 30?
- Investment Workshop 4: Dollar Cost Averaging
- How to Find the Perfect Job
- Sean Cooper Guest Post: How I Paid Off My Mortgage In Just 3 years
- Investment Workshop 3: Picking Your ETF’s
- Financial Samurai Guest Post: Owning A Million Dollar Property Isn’t What Made Me Rich
- Let’s Go Exploring! Vienna: Apparently Being a Princess Sucks
- Why President Trump Doesn’t Scare Me
- How to Succeed at Anything
- Reader Case: Should I Rent Out the Condo or Sell it?
- Investment Workshop 2: Designing Your Portfolio Allocation
- How to Become Financially Independent by Travelling
- Let’s Go Exploring! Prague: Castles, Peacocks, and Human Skulls
- Investment Workshop: How To Invest For Free
- Fear Will Hold You Prisoner; a Diversified Portfolio Will Set You Free
- Buy Your Freedom; Rent the Rest
- Murdering Your Mortgage
- Mission Impossible: Retiring Early and Travelling the World…with Kids?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Oktoberfest in Munich
- Murdering Your Student Debt
- The Key to Early Retirement: Flexibility
- Reader Case: Buy Or Rent in Saskatoon?
- Murdering Your Consumer Debt
- Your Number One Obstacle
- Why You Need F-U Money
- How Much Debt is Too Much?
- On The Money
- Let’s Go Exploring! Switzerland: Forget Heaven. Just Go Here.
- Doing the Deed
- How Much is Your Time Really Worth?
- Are You Hard-Working or Smart-Working?
- The US Tax System is FANTASTIC for Early Retirement
- Disowned For Being A Millionaire: Why I Still Won’t Buy A House
- Let’s Go Exploring! Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart: Nazis, Spas, and Property Damage
- Leverage. Friend or Enemy?
- Would We Be Richer If We Had Bought a House?
- Guess Who’s on BNN? Come Watch the Train Wreck…
- Let the Government Fund Your Retirement
- You’re Closer to Retirement Than You Think
- Reader Case: How Do I Stop the Bleeding?
- What Should My Asset Allocation Be? (Nervous Newbie Edition)
- How Growing Up Poor Made Me A Bad-Ass
- Haters Gonna Hate
- Million Dollar House? Or Million Dollar Prison?
- Catching Fire
- We’re on TV!
- Let’s Go Exploring! Belgium: Food Porn Paradise
- How NOT to Fail at Retiring Early (Sequence of Returns Risk)
- Why Everyone Wants Us To Fail Part 2
- Black Swan Events
- A Canadian Housing Crash Worse Than the US?
- Vancouver Property Transfer Tax: Home Owners Get Screwed
- Wall Street: The Bullshit Machine
- 11 No Bullshit Ways to Make More Money
- Let’s Go Exploring! Denmark. The Happiest Place On Earth?
- Dollar Cost Averaging: How to Invest Without Freaking Out
- Why Houses Are a Scam
- Books That Will Teach You To Be Rich
- Investment Fees Are The Worst
- Reader Case: How Should We Invest?
- Let’s Go Exploring! Ireland: “Please Don’t Scream into a Traffic Cone.”
- How to Pay No Tax on Your Investments
- Why The Rich Don’t Pay Taxes
- Let’s Go Exploring! The Scots, My Kind of People
- Why Britain is Screwed and Why That’s a Good Thing
- Brexit: The Boomers Have Screwed Over the Millennials Again
- Let’s Go Exploring! Bristol and Bath. Twice the character, half the price.
- Rebalancing: How to Buy Low and Sell High
- Reader Case: Can I Retire to Spend More Time With My Kids?
- How to Fly for Free with Points
- Asset Allocation: Slicing the Pie
- Why Everyone Wants Us To Fail
- Let’s Go Exploring: London. So Jolly. So Dark.
- How To Build a Portfolio
- How We Got Here, Epilogue: The Real Cost of Traveling the World
- How We Got Here, Part 4: The Bearded One
- How We Got Here, Part 3: After the Crash
- How We Got Here, Part 2: PANIC
- Why Most People Lose Money In The Stock Market
- How We Got Here, Part 1: God, we were spendy back then
- How I Built a Seven Figure Portfolio and Retired at 31
- How Much Is Enough?
- Size doesn’t matter
- The World Is Yours
- Why Following Your Dreams Will Make You Free
- How to Retire in just 10 Years? Rent, apparently.
- Why Renting Will Make You Rich
- The Past Doesn’t Matter: What Surviving a Warzone Can Teach You About Finance
- Forget #YOLO. Think #WOLO.
- Screw the Boomer’s Dream. Join the Millennial Revolution Instead!
- The Power of Small Changes
- You Can Have It All. Just Not All At Once.
- Here’s To the Blog Dogs
