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Is This Time Different?

Mr. Clipping Chains — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:41:13 +0000

From a market perspective, history has always favored the unfazed, the patient, the forgetful. Drastic action in times of great uncertainty is almost always the wrong move. Time and again—just like now—people convinced themselves of imminent disaster. And in nearly all cases, they were wrong. Financial writers and hardened optimists are right to remind us: …

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David Champion: The Psychological Challenge Of Early Retirement

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0000

David Champion retired early at 53. In his own words, the first five years were “magnificent,” with endless opportunities for climbing and adventure. However, he knows the next five won’t come so easily. Introduction Retirement is often an ideal detached from reality. When overwhelmed by daily routines, it’s easy to imagine retirement as a stress-free …

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The Psychology Behind Poor Investments and Other Important Decisions

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:00:00 +0000

When we make important decisions, we are often not as rational or objective as we’d like to believe. The base rate fallacy is the tendency to misjudge the probability of a situation by not accounting for all relevant information. This cognitive bias affects everything from first impressions to voting preferences to broad market behavior. Listen …

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QA12: Will A Life Of Financial Independence Meet Expectations?

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

We’re back to the digital mailbag to answer your questions! For this week: Submit Your Questions! I solicit questions from email subscribers of this website. First, become an email subscriber here, which also includes a FREE spending and net worth tracking spreadsheet: Subscribe for new posts and receive a FREE spreadsheet for tracking spending, income, …

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Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor on Building the Ideal Life

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Jim Dahle is the founder of the White Coat Investor, a widely consumed personal finance and investing blog and podcast specifically designed for physicians and other high-income careers. What Jim created in 2011 as a simple blog has grown into a multi-media empire that now employs fifteen people and hosts content from a range of …

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The Great American Student Loan Debt with Emma Crawford

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

In America, student loan debt has exploded over the last twenty years, with the average inflation-adjusted federal loan debt per student rising from under $29,000 in 2011 to nearly $40,000 in 2020. Students and their parents are paying an increasingly costly price for college education, outpacing growth in expected starting salaries. After more than three …

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QA11: Laying It Out in Simple Terms

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 06:00:00 +0000

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The One Time to Be Average with Dave Rosen

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Dave Rosen is a climber and ophthalmologist in his final year of residency. And Dave grew up like so many of us: broadly exposed to the importance of money and taught a thing or two about saving, but investing was a foreign concept and his lack of knowledge was a source of shame. While Dave …

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Mike Piper: Down To The Essence Of Smart Money Management

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Mike Piper is a CPA and the creator of the Oblivious Investor blog, where he teaches a philosophy of simple and low-maintenance investing. Mike’s simple philosophy distills down to three primary principles: Mike began his career as a CPA before realizing he could support himself by writing books. Surprisingly, he left his secure job during …

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Jeff and Priti Wright: You Might Need a Sabbatical

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Today on episode 64 I’m excited to welcome Priti and Jeff Wright, two accomplished young professional alpinists from Seattle, WA. In 2020, Priti, a software developer, and Jeff, a mechanical engineer at Boeing, embarked on a year-long sabbatical to travel across the globe and climb alpine objectives in Patagonia, France, and Pakistan, finishing by the …

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