Everybody’s financial situation — age, income, saving rate — is different. But every retiree, early or late, aspiring or actual, has the same, simple investing imperative: We must preserve and grow our purchasing power in real terms in…
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This is a guest post from ESI of ESI Money, a blog about achieving financial independence through earning, saving, and investing (“E”, “S”, and “I” — get it?). It’s written by an early-50s retiree who achieved financial independence,…
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What happens when a half dozen money nerds spend 48 hours together in Clearwater, Florida? Do they romp on the beach? Swim in the ocean? Cook dinner together? Drink copious quantities of alcohol? Stay up until three in the morning,…
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Greetings from sunny and sweaty Orlando, Florida! It’s been a long, lovely, crazy week behind the scenes at Get Rich Slowly. I’ve spent the past ten days hanging out with fellow money nerds at Fincon, the annual “money and media”…
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Refinancing your student loans means that a private lender is essentially buying your Federal student loans, paying them off, and creating a new loan with new, original terms.The new terms of your refinanced loan will be based on your…
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August 7, 2018 | Meg Add to my favorites Love’s Travel Stops is offering all customers a FREE 20-ounce fountain drink today, August 7th! Just print or show this barcode on your phone to get your freebie. Limit one per customer. Valid…
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I read a lot of money books. As a result, a large section of my large library is devoted to books about personal finance. (And if I hadn’t purged hundreds of money books when I sold this site in 2009, I’d have even more books — and no…
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Talking about death, and the end-of-life decisions that must be made once we pass away, isn’t comfortable for anyone. But it’s a conversation we should all have with our families at some point. A traditional burial, in which a preserved…
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When I was a child, my mother and I rode a bus to and from the downtown Wichita Falls, Texas library every Wednesday and Saturday morning. I can still see it now: a brick, three-story building with floor-to-ceiling windows and the…
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“There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers, and more averse to one another, than if they were actually two different…
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