Money
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Will the SpaceX IPO Break Your Index Funds?
Courtesy of SpaceX When my Father-in-Law asks a timely question about passive index fund investing, it surely means many of…
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Inflation Creep and Your Financial Plan
The April 2026 CPI number came in hot, confirming what most of us are feeling in our pocketbooks — rising…
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How Our Perceptions of Time and Money Change as We Age
Our perceptions of the value of time and money shift as we age. In early adulthood, time is abundant, while…
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The Transition to Spending – Retire Before Dad
One of the more common retirement concerns I hear from new subscribers is the transition from saving for retirement to…
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A New (But Familiar) Alternative Investment (VCX)
Many RBD followers are aware that I have a second brand/website/podcast called Access IPOs that initially spun out of RBD…
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19 Years at the IRS and I Still Dread Tax Season
I was an IT Modernization Engineer for much of my professional career before leaving to be a full-time creator in…
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The Best Time to Invest Your IRA (It’s Not April)
Over the past 150 years, the U.S. stock market (including dividends) has ended the year positively roughly 75% of the…
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Own Your Time – Book Giveaway
My friend Andy Hill from Marriage Kids and Money just launched a new book called Own Your Time. I’m giving…
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“Optimizing” the Roth IRA
One thing I’ve learned from 30 years of investing and DIY money management is that there is always another way…
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The Thinning U.S. Stock Market and Hedging Concentration Risk
There are about half as many stocks trading in the U.S. today as there were in 1996 — 4,010 vs.…
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