What Is a Perpetual Money Machine?
Perpetual Money Machine What if you had a machine that could legitimately produce all the money you need to meet all of your expenses forever – a perpetual money machine? How would owning such a...
View ArticleFreedom Is Not for the Faint of Heart
Freedom and Independence The US senate has proposed new legislation, the HELPER Act, which is designed to give people more freedom and choices in how they pay off their student debt. In simple terms,...
View ArticleEquality and the Stock Market
Some people are more equal than others. The stock market gets a bad rap. Last week it was Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tweeting that the market’s record highs are “inequality in a nutshell.” Sadly, this...
View ArticleIt’s Easier to Be Rich If You Don’t Have to Look Rich
That Looks Rich. Wealth is a fascinating paradox. People who look rich, especially those who really care about looking rich, usually aren’t actually rich. On the other hand, as we learned from The...
View ArticleBut, I Can’t Afford to Save for Retirement.
Staying Afloat If you are in our twenties you have plenty to keep you busy – starting a career, paying off debt, trying to look successful, enjoying whatever youth you have left. I get it. You’re...
View ArticleHow To Get Rich
On the banks of the Volga River Most people want to be rich. A smaller portion of those actually want to get rich. If you are one of the enlightened few who are willing to actually do the work of...
View ArticleLaid Off
Fired I woke up Monday morning to a Zoom invite with my divisional vice president and a human resources representative. My company has been in the process of reorganization for months, and they have...
View ArticleEarly Retirement – The First Two Months
The Dawn of Early Retirement? The sense of time in my last post may have been a bit misleading. I wrote most of the article just a couple of days after I was laid off, but a month and a half passed...
View ArticleMy Retirement Draw-Down Plan
A lot has changed in the year and a half since I published my early retirement draw-down plan titled Un-Making a Millionaire – It’s Time to Spend, in July 2019. At that time I had reached a minimal...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Corporate Slavery
One of the most insidious, counterproductive, and also pervasive ideas in our thriving culture of victimhood is the fallacy of corporate slavery. Adherents to this ideology insist that corporations...
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