Retirement

How to Lose A Million Dollars And Live To See Another Day

The following is a guest post by insightful reader JayCeezy. He is a veteran investor who shares his perspective on investing, retirement, and risk tolerance. If you want to learn how to lose a million dollars and live to see another day, read on! How To Lose A Million Dollars Kidding. It was a lot […]

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Making Money From Home And Supporting A Family Just Got Easier

Making money from home is more important than ever thanks to the pandemic. If you have children to support, then making money from home is what you need to do. Why wife and I have been making money from home technically since 2009. 2009 is when Financial Samurai started. Since 2009, Financial Samurai has grown

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The Solution To Social Security Problems: Die Young And Stay Single

Imagine working for 40 years, each year paying Social Security taxes and dying at the age of 62 with no spouse to bequeath. The Government is going to secretly laugh at you because they now get to keep the hundreds of thousands of dollars you paid into the system for free, baby! Meanwhile, if you

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Investing In Peer-To-Peer Lending With Prosper.com

With savings interest rates under 0.3%, the 10-year yield under 2.5%, and stock market dividend yields under 2.5%, investors are starving for yield. I’m looking for a relatively hands off investment class that can provide superior yields as my long term 4%+ CDs start rolling off in 2017. I think I’ve found it in peer-to-peer

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The Best Rewards Credit Card Is The Citi ThankYou® Card

The best rewards credit card was the Citi ThankYou card. Let’s review the best rewards credit card a little further in this post. The main reason I opened a relationship with Citibank in 2001 was because they are an international bank with good customer service. I use to travel overseas twice a year for my

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Life After Negotiating A Severance: The Quest To Work 20 Hours A Week And Make $200,000 A Year

My ideal amount of working hours a day is four. A good four hour workday for me is probably working from 7:30am to 10:30am and then again for an hour during the evening to interact with international clients. I’ll fill the time in between with exercise, eating, entertainment, and family. The ideal amount of income

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What To Do After Retirement? Save The World Of Course!

After retirement, what do you think you’re going to do? The obvious answer is save the world of course! If you don’t plan on retiring to something, you may end up experiencing all the negativities of retirement you did not know existed. Life After Retirement So you’ve worked hard these past 20 years, diligently saving

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Going John Galt And Protesting Government Waste

John Galt is a fictional character in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957).  The phrase, “Going John Galt ” or “Going Galt” is used to describe “productive” members of society cutting back on work in response to the projected increase in U.S. marginal tax rates, increased limits on tax deductions, and the immoral or inefficient use of tax revenues. I’m not sure if

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