Retirement

The Economy Or Maybe Your Life: How Much Pain Are You Willing To Endure?

Americans are facing a difficult dilemma during the pandemic. We have to decide between the economy or maybe your life or my life. How long are we willing to purposefully shut down our economy to combat the coronavirus and risk losing even more people due to a great depression? I don’t know the answer, which […]

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Include Primary Home When Calculating Net Worth Or Not

There’s a perpetual debate raging whether one should include their primary home when calculating net worth or not. I think it’s absolutely fine to include your primary residence as part of your net worth. It’s also fine not to include your home as part of your net worth. You should calculate both because there is

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Move Over FIRE, Welcome DIRE: Delay, Inherit, Retire, Expire

Instead of embracing the FIRE movement for those seeking financial independence, it may be better to embrace the DIRE movement after such a massive bull run since 2009. For the millions of unemployed Americans thanks to the pandemic, the DIRE movement is real. When I first started writing about achieving  financial independence early in 2009,

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Average vs. Recommended Expenditure On Housing, Food, Transportation

This post will look at the recommended expenditure on housing, food, transportation and more. As someone who kickstarted the FIRE movement (Financial Independence Retire Early), I’d like everybody to spend less, save more, and invest more for financial freedom! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the latest data for 2019 shows the average

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