I am obsessed with the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. From the moment I saw the trailer, I knew the movie was meant for me. I was right. The film’s bizarre blend of action, philosophy, science fiction, taxes, and juvenile humor feels specifically targeted to me and my brain. For those unfamiliar, here’s a …
Today, the Get Rich Slowly summer of books concludes with an excerpt from Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away from Julien and Kiersten Saunders. Julien and Kiersten are the power couple behind the rich & Regular blog and YouTube channel. The following excerpt from Cashing Out (published by Portfolio/Penguin) is used with …
The Get Rich Slowly summer of books continues! Today’s excerpt comes from Jordan Grumet, better known in the FIRE world as Doc G, host of the Earn & Invest Podcast. When he’s not talking about money, Jordan is a real-life hospice doc. His new book, Taking Stock, offers lessons from the dying to the living. …
Howdy, friends. Sorry for the long lapse between posts. After returning from a brief summer vacation, the GRS database had imploded. Again. We patched things up this morning and can now resume publishing. Over the next couple of weeks, I plan to share excerpts from three recent money books. The following is from Buy This, …
Hello, friends! I have a lot to say, and I’ve done a lot of work on Get Rich Slowly during the past three weeks, but most of my efforts aren’t yet ready for public consumption. The site de-design is 95% complete, but that final five percent is fiddly. I could be ready to launch the …
Interest rates on home mortgages are rising rapidly across the United States, which seems to be slowing most housing markets. (Some, like the market here in Corvallis, have been less affected. Give it time.) The average mortgage rate for a 30-year loan was about 3.0% at the start of the year; today, it’s at 6.245% …
A couple of weekends ago, Kim and I enjoyed a short vacation on the Oregon Coast. She’s been taking foraging classes, and she had an early morning workshop on harvesting sea vegetables one Sunday. Rather than wake in the middle of the night to drive out, we rented a small place in Tillamook and took …
Last month, the Federal Reserve released a new report: Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2021 PDF. This annual survey gauges American financial health and attitudes. The 2021 edition was conducted last November. Here are some highlights from the report: Seventy-eight percent of adults were either doing okay or living comfortably financially, the highest share …
Both my ex-wife (Kris) and my current girlfriend (Kim) tell me I get too worked up about things sometimes. “You over-react,” they both tell me. Maybe so. I prefer to think of myself as passionate. One of the things I’m passionate about is scammers. I hate them. Scammers are evil, evil people who prey on …
One morning just over ten years ago, I had an interesting conversation at the Crossfit gym. I was “rolling out” — using a foam roller to break up tissue — with the usual group of guys, when one of my buddies brought up this new thing called Bitcoin. “Bitcoin is digital money,” he said. “But …