In most endeavors, there are high rewards for taking charge, for working hard, for striving for perfection. “Fortune favors the bold!” Taking a passive approach and relying on others to do your homework is typically a recipe for failure. Except, it seems, for investing in the stock market. Index investing is where your goal is […]
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I have a theory that folks in North Texas are colder and more miserable in winter than just about anyone else. I sense the furrowed brows, but hear me out. I’m not saying that North Texas has the worst winters – far from it. I’ve spent many a winter in Chicago and Northwest Indiana, and
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I coach my son’s soccer team, and at a recent game, one of our players took the ball to the corner and passed back to his friend in the middle. Just like we practiced. His friend was about to get swarmed by defenders, so he took a great one-touch shot. Just like we practiced. The
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Cryptocurrencies are trending! I can’t go a day without seeing some news story about them. I’d been successfully ignoring all of the noise, but last week one of my friends asked me about my cryptocurrency investment strategy. This is a guy I really respect (at least until he asked me this question), and it was
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A friend recently had a few personal finance questions for me. I figured I’d just direct him to my outstanding library of foundational personal finance posts. Then I realized I didn’t have any. It was sad. Let’s remedy that, shall we? Today I’ll lay down the basics of my approach to personal finance – consider
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I\’ve had a couple of dolls for the last 15 years. They belonged to my mom. She had them since she was a little girl, and she hoped to give them to my or my brother\’s daughters. The problem is that we have failed to produce a single daughter between us (not us together, but
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Have you ever had someone reach out after a long absence and act like nothing happened? They just give you the ol’ “Hey, how’s it goin’?” like they were talking to you yesterday, but maybe it’s been years. It’s weird. They typically want something. I don’t roll that way. If there’s an elephant in the
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I’m headed about 500 miles away to West Texas this weekend with my eldest son. Our primary objective is to see a rodeo. Yep, that’s just how we roll ‘round here. Last weekend my whole family went with my brother and his wife to a cabin in Oklahoma. I’m not sharing my jet-set lifestyle so
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It’s a Friday in the middle of summer, so it’s clearly time to grab some snippets and lovely links and throw them in a blender for your reading pleasure. Welcome to another eclectic edition of TGIF! Expect the Unexpected I’ve chronicled how Snufkin the cat used to kill every small animal in sight like clockwork
Things are going pretty well for me nowadays, but I have one inevitable tragedy in my near future. I’m going to have to say goodbye to what is quite likely the best dog in history of the world. My dog Bamble is 12, and even though he’s still in great health, I know we have
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