In 2022, I published 156 posts on Financial Samurai. Every post is written based on firsthand experience because money is too important to be left up to pontification. For background, I worked in finance from 1999 – 2012. Along the way, I got my MBA part-time in 2006 and started Financial Samurai in 2009. Since
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For the first year in retirement, I murmured this phrase over and over again, “I’m bored.” After regularly working 60 hours a week and interacting with clients, I suddenly had too much time on my hands. Instead of being bored, maybe what I really felt was loneliness. After my wife took the bus to work
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Something crazy just happened. FTX, formerly the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, collapsed overnight. It went from a valuation of around $16 billion to a negative valuation due to a liquidity crunch and debt. How did this happen? FTT, a crypto coin that the FTX exchange issued, plummeted in value because Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, said
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Buy This, Not That is an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller by Sam Dogen, creator of Financial Samurai. Financial Samurai, started in 2009, is one of the largest independently owned personal finance sites with over one million organic pageviews a month. This page will highlight the best and worst Buy This Not That book reviews.
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Do you know what is really hard? Deciding to walk away from a whole lot of money in your prime. If you decide to retire early or take a lower-paying job out of joy, you must accept the death of your maximum money potential. Over the years, many readers looking to retire early or do
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Since 2009, one of the things I have focused on is trying to help readers have a risk-appropriate asset allocation. A risk-appropriate investor invests according to their true risk tolerance. When you invest according to your true risk tolerance, you usually become a calmer, wealthier person. Over the long run, your investment asset allocation is
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Since 2012, I have tried hard to stop playing the status game. After all, leaving my job in banking meant losing status at age 34 when folks are usually coming into their own. After my career was over, I turned down multiple TV show appearances, podcast interviews, and speaking gigs. To be able to just
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With the Fed finally embarking on a multi-year rate cut cycle, concerns for another recession or even another global financial crisis is growing. We’ve got tariff uncertainty, geopolitical risk, a slowdown in the labor market, and stock market valuations near all-time highs. I would not be surprised if another recession comes that leads to stagnation.
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One of the main reasons why I wrote my WSJ bestseller, Buy This, Not That was to help readers feel less regret by making wiser choices. Regret is one of the worst feelings, especially if it is a type of regret that could have been prevented through knowledge. The easiest way to stop saying, “If
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Here in the San Francisco tech startup scene, we have a term called “the trough of sorrow.” The trough of sorrow refers to the sadness that comes after a setback or a big win. After a setback, you’re tasked with finding product-market fit to survive given your company has a limited runway of cash. You
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