September 2019

Make ‘gaining choice’ – and not early retirement – your real goal

September 16, 2019 by admin

It’s all about the acronym. That’s why a 20-something member of the “FIRE movement” – which stands for Financial Independence Retire Early – told me last week at FinCon 2019 that I “don’t qualify as FIRE.” Mind you, this young blogger is working a corporate job, driving an Uber on the side and is anxious …

It’s dead money when you pursue financial deadbeats

March 7, 2021 by admin

Most bad financial experiences at least come with a lesson, something good where you can say that money lost was the cost of your education as a consumer. This is not one of those stories. Instead, it’s about pure financial pain and emotional misery, something I’m facing again mostly in the hope that you can …