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Financial Update – Nov 2019

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Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches WSJ opinion piece on the state of income inequality in the U.S. (link). The authors claim that, on an after-tax-and-transfer basis, the five quintiles of income earn a net of $50k, $55k, $65k, $80k, and $190k. While the ratio of gross incomes of the top … Read more

2019 Tax Calculator

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I’ve been dragging my feet on the release of my 2019 tax calculator for a while now. I think I updated it several months ago but I wanted to wait until TurboTax & TaxAct updated their tools so I could validate my spreadsheet against theirs. As of today, however, neither site has been updated for … Read more

Financial Update – Oct 2019

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Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches The Biggest Little Farm (link). Our friends saw this indie film at a local theater and highly recommended it to us. It documents the journey of a couple as they embark on an ambitious plan to change careers to become farmers. In the process, they … Read more

Financial Update – Sep 2019

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Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches One of the more well-written and inspiring things I’ve read on the internet in a while from the Dangerz (the former van dwellers turned perpetual sailors). To see the text of their instagram post, you’ll have to scroll to the top of the comments (link). … Read more