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Financial Life Simulator: Live 18 to the End in 30 Minutes
I built a free game that lets you live a whole financial life, 18 to the end, in about half an hour - then replays it with one decision changed.
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How you actually withdraw the money
Two people retire on the same morning. Same age, same 600,000 in the pot, same low-cost world tracker, same plan to spend a little over 4% a year. Thirty years later, one of them dies with more money than they started with. The other ran out at 82
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Why not just buy 30-year bonds at 6%?
Someone on Reddit asked the question that a lot of people are quietly thinking. If a 4% withdrawal rate is supposed to be safe for retirement, and a 30-year government bond pays around 6%, why bother with stocks at all? Just buy the bond, collect 6% forever, and skip
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Is it too late to invest at all-time highs?
You have money to invest. You open the app, look at the chart, and see a line that has gone almost straight up. The S&P 500 closed at 7,652.86 on 24 August 2026, a rounding error away from its own record. Some part of your brain
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The IPO trap: why 'Getting in on the ground floor' usually means getting trampled
On May 18, 2012, Facebook went public in the most anticipated IPO in a decade. Retail investors - regular people with brokerage accounts - snapped up 26% of the shares offered. What those regular people didn't know was that Facebook had quietly told its largest institutional investors that second-quarter
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I wrote the personal finance book I needed at 22
My parents never bought a stock. School taught me the Pythagorean theorem and nothing about money. So I read hundreds of finance books - and ended up writing the one I wish someone had handed me at 22.
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Why smart investors are finally going global (and you should too)
For over a decade, one man shaped how millions of people invest. JL Collins - author of The Simple Path to Wealth, patron saint of the FIRE movement, the guy who made "just buy VTSAX" feel like a religious commandment - told his followers that all you needed was one
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The hardest part of FIRE isn't saving, it's spending
I know what you're thinking.. This article might be the opposite of what I've been preaching so far. But hear me out, you might be surprised. A couple sits across from Ramit Sethi on his podcast. They have $2 million in the bank. And they want
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When can you actually retire? A FIRE calculator that doesn't lie to you
How long until you can actually stop working? Not the "67 and a gold watch" kind of retirement - the "I have enough, I'm done when I say I'm done" kind. The math behind FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is almost offensively simple:
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The Greek alphabet conspiracy: why Wall Street's secret language can make you 15-25% richer
Greek letters in investing made simple: manage risk & return.
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Portfolio Beta calculator: measure your investment risk
Portfolio Beta Calculator Calculate your portfolio's systematic risk relative to the market Stock Symbol Weight (%) Beta Action × + Add Another Holding Calculate Portfolio Beta Portfolio Beta 0.00 Note: Beta measures a stock's volatility relative to the overall market (S&P 500). A beta of 1.
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Warren Buffett quotes: 15 best investment strategies from the Oracle of Omaha
Meta Description: Learn Warren Buffett's 15 best investing strategies through his funniest quotes. Discover how to invest like Buffett with proven tactics that turned $1,000 into $55 million.