Forrager Podcast: Start Your Own Home-Based Food Business

If you enjoy listening to podcasts about entrepreneurial stories on a smaller scale (i.e. not tech unicorns), I recommend the Forrager Podcast about cottage food businesses, where people sell food made in their home kitchens (as opposed to a … [Read the rest]

Father’s Day Advice from Jack Bogle

Art Carey of the Phildelphia Inquirer shares some great quotes from a past interview with the late Jack Bogle, in which Bogle shared the advice he would give his own son: Vanguard’s John Bogle gives tips for life on Father’s Day. The advice is … [Read the rest]

Sprint Unlimited Line On Us: Add Line For Free + T-Mobile Tuesdays

If you are a current Sprint customer, they are running a promotion called Unlimited Line on Us where you can add a extra line with no monthly charge, although you are still subject to the monthly taxes and fees (approximately $5 to $10 a month … [Read the rest]

Money in Excel: Automated Budgeting and Personal Finance Template (Free for Microsoft 365 Subscribers)

It's not the classic Microsoft Money application (which I'm still asked about periodically), but Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscribers can now download "Money in Excel" (free) which promises to help you manage your personal finances using … [Read the rest]

Hertz Used Rental Cars: Good or Bad Idea? Big List of Pros and Cons

In better times, Hertz took out a big loan and put up their vast inventory of cars as collateral. COVID-19 caused the lender to worry about getting their money back, so they called in the loan. Hertz doesn't exactly have much cashflow right now, … [Read the rest]

In Defense of Working One More Year (OMY)

In early retirement discussion forums, you'll often see the term OMY, which refers to people who have reached their calculated retirement savings target, but decide to keep working "One More Year". Sometimes that one more year becomes two more … [Read the rest]

Don’t Expect Too Much From Exotic Asset Classes

If you like having a complicated portfolio and owning exotic asset classes for diversification, you might want to prepare yourself before reading Skating Where the Puck Was: The Correlation Game in a Flat World by William Bernstein. Most of the … [Read the rest]

Amazon Prime: $8.98 Echo Dot (3rd Gen) + Music Unlimited Trial

Update: Offer is back again, but sold out quickly last time! Amazon has brought back a good deal for Prime members interested in a cheap Echo Dot (newest 3rd generation). Sign up for a 1-month Amazon Music Unlimited membership for $7.99, and … [Read the rest]

The Rare Stock Market Do-Over

It used to be that you were supposed to use your experience from the 2008 stock market drop to help understand your true risk tolerance. Well, now we have a more recent reference point in the 2020 stock market drop. Allan Roth reminds us that … [Read the rest]

Live Cheaply and Invest In Yourself

The The Money Diaries series at Wealthsimple continues to offer periodic interviews with an interesting mix of people sharing about their financial lives. I'd never heard of Carson Mell, but I appreciated how he cared most about doing what he wanted … [Read the rest]

William Bernstein and Safe Withdrawal Rates

A recurring theme in investing is that you start out learning the simple basics, then you feel like you can optimize things and spend a lot of effort trying to do so, and eventually you realize that simple is probably just fine. No matter how … [Read the rest]

Best Interest Rates on Cash – June 2020

Another month of slight rate drops, although bank accounts can still beat out Treasury bonds and/or brokerage cash sweep options by a significant margin. Here's my monthly roundup of the best interest rates on cash for June 2020, roughly sorted … [Read the rest]