The following is a guest post by Mathieu Bouville. Drawing an income changes everything The usual viewpoint of investment advice is that of someone twenty or thirty years away from retirement who wants to accumulate a capital for retirement. Here I instead focus on somebody who is retired and wants an income. This case is… [Read More]
Weekend Reading: Freedom Edition!
This week I celebrate freedom: 我考完试! I’ve finished my exams, and my evenings are wide open once again. I’m not completely satisfied, because I realized that I studied a bit too much of one area and not enough of another when doing the test, and our oral group completely got our asses kicked by the… [Read More]
Gold, Revisited: Is $1500 Near?
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (or a gold nugget?), you’ve probably heard about the skyrocketing gold prices. As of this writing, gold is at $1425 USD! Only a few months ago, I don’t think most people other than a few gold bugs would have imagined prices shooting up so high, and so fast…. [Read More]
A 20 Minute Guide to Investing
I recently read Barbara Friedberg’s 20 Minute Guide to Investing. This guide is an intro to investing that covers the basics of what you need to know, before you start investing. Barbara covers many topics, including the following: What should I do before I invest? Why should I invest? What is investing, and what are… [Read More]
Weekend Reading: Camping Weekend Edition + A List of WordPress Plugins That I Use
Here is your weekend reading: Site Changes I’ve recently added a popular posts plugin, which shows the 5 most popular posts along the right sidebar. Since the statistics only started being collected as of yesterday, the rankings are biased in favor of the most recent posts. I’ve also added a top commentators plugin. I’m displaying… [Read More]