If you want to achieve financial independence earlier in life, there's a lot to know! Budgeting, investing, tax-strategies and how to use every tool at your disposal to retire early. Here is a map of everything you need to know to retire early looking back at the best articles in the last 10 years.[Read more...] about What You Should Know About Investing At Every Age From 16 to 60
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What Should You Do With a Sudden Windfall?
If you received $1 million tomorrow, what would you do? How will taxes work? How much should you save from it? Will this windfall enable you to be set for life?[Read more...] about What Should You Do With a Sudden Windfall?
What’s the Difference Between Fire, Lean Fire, and Fat Fire?
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Data, Financial Independence, Featured, Blog, Minafi, Canonical.
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People use the terms "fire", "lean fire" and "fat fire" all the time - but what do they mean? In this data-driven post, we look into the numbers behind these pursuits and what you could do to hit your numbers.[Read more...] about What’s the Difference Between Fire, Lean Fire, and Fat Fire?
Find Your Irresistible Staircase to Early Retirement
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Minimalism, Financial Independence, Blog, Minafi, Canonical.
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What is your path to early retirement? Having a set goal is one thing, but designing a life with an irresistible staircase there is another thing. If you can find your own motivation, you'll get there sooner than you think.[Read more...] about Find Your Irresistible Staircase to Early Retirement
The Gender Pay Gap Told Through Data From the Finance Blogging Community
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Canonical, Financial Independence, Investing, Interactive, Featured, Blog, Minafi.
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The salary difference between men and women has been studied in many different times in many different fields. In each study, the raw findings are the same - women make less than men. Does this trend hold true for the personal finance community and it's readers?[Read more...] about The Gender Pay Gap Told Through Data From the Finance Blogging Community
Your House Doesn’t Count Towards the 4% Rule
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The 4% states you need your yearly spending times 25 to retirement. One question I get a bunch is around the idea of "what assets are included" in that 25x number. Spoiler: It's not your house.[Read more...] about Your House Doesn’t Count Towards the 4% Rule