Financial Update

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches This Bogleheads Live Podcast episode on tax planning for early retirees was moderately interesting (link). The above podcast is different than Rick Ferri’s Bogleheads on Investing Podcast (link). Confusing, I know. Life Despite being vaccinated and boosted, 5/7 of us got Covid for the second … Read more

The commenting functionality was broken for a bit. Sorry about that. I’m pretty sure it’s fixed now.      Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches MyMoneyBlog on Schwab’s $187M penalty for shenanigans with their robo-advisor customers (link). WSJ on Roth Conversions (link). Top Gun Maverick (link). We went during the $5 … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments. Good Reads/Listens/Watches Everybody Lies (link). I discovered the book via the author’s interview with Steve Levitt (link). It’s as if Freakonomics and Google Trends made a baby. David @ OchoSinCoche published a book on 529s (link). I was a beta reader and found it to be a … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments.   Good Reads/Listens/Watches Steve Levitt interviews Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert (link). MyMoneyBlog on the upcoming expiration of Vanguard’s patented tax-efficient ETF+MF combo (link). While interesting, it seems that the industry has simply transitioned from mutual funds to ETFs. Consequently, the expiration of this patent seems largely inconsequential.  … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments.   Good Reads/Listens/Watches I watched an interesting video of the mayor of Emeryville, CA who is transforming his city into a biking utopia (link). It is pretty inspiring. It is understandable that nobody wants to ride a bike when it is so easy to get killed by … Read more

Another month, another update. A few random comments.   Good Reads/Listens/Watches Vanguard hosed their retail Target Date customers with large capital gains distributions. MyMoneyBlog WSJ Lesson learned: Don’t hold funds-of-funds in a taxable account. Beau Miles made some great videos: Planting a tree a minute for 24 hours. Running a half marathon with a wheelbarrow. I … Read more