As buy-and-hold investors, we assume that over time the shares we buy will appreciate. We hope that our current purchases will someday have multiplied many times. This is a logical assumption when…
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Friendly Financial Reminders from Me to Myself
One thing I’ve noticed as someone who creates things is that I will often return to things I created and experience them more as an objective audience member and less as the…
Despite the Drama…
As I mentioned recently, for awhile now I have been a big fan of Vanguard’s Total US Stock Market Index Fund, or VTSAX. In fact, I have been buying shares of it…
Still Calm, Cool, and Collected about Mr. Market
(Source for above graph: https://www.macrotrends.net/2488/sp500-10-year-daily-chart) Today the S&P 500 hit a new high… again. During the nine years since I started investing, the biggest investing story has been the success of big…
Friendly Financial Lessons
When it comes to money, I am far from perfect, goodness knows. However, I have learned a few valuable (at least to me) lessons in my own money journey. Today I asked…
Vanguard’s Courage to be Disliked
In “The Courage to Be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, the authors lay out a clear case for how freedom comes from the willingness to be disliked. There are many…
Three Years of Steady Share Prices
I have written numerous times about VTSAX, Vanguard’s Total US Stock Market fund. It plays a significant part of my portfolio. I first found myself interested in tracking my purchases of it…
Focused on the Long-Term
Yesterday I read a great investing-related article by Larry Swedroe. In it, Swedroe recaps lessons he says the market taught investors in 2023. None of these lessons, he points out, are new….
Enjoying the Prosperity Game
Abraham-Hicks is a beloved teacher of mine. For many years, they have been my go-to source for upliftment and inspiration, as well as guidance on the Law of Attraction. Their book “Ask…
With All We’ve Been Through!
Long, long ago, on the final day of 2019, I posted about the U.S. stock market, noting that the previous decade had been a fabulous time to invest in U.S. stocks. At…