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Hi CMonkey, Glad to see that you are back! I am always impressed by your resourcefulness building things and gardening while living super frugally. Two quick random thoughts: First, have you begun to take advantage of the 7.12% yield (guaranteed for only 6 months) on US I-Bonds? If not, please let m...

Hi CMonkey, Congratulations on your daughter and your progress toward your goals! Children are the greatest treasure. I think we are roughly the same age with similar goals, and I always come back to your journal every few months or so to see the updates (and to make the comparison in FI savings). I...

I just read through all of your posts (Yeah, it took a few hours). I'm 31 with nearly identical income, savings, and goals, though I am achieving FI with different investments. Great work on your early retirement goals and especially on the homestead experiments and home renovations. I've learned fr...

As Dragline et. al mentioned above, investors should choose a long-term strategy and stick with it. Every expert, author, or fund uses a unique investing strategy, and time will show which are the best (though, many will work). David Swensen, PhD, CFO of the Yale endowment fund, wrote an EXCELLENT c...

Hi All, Larry Swedroe is a financial guy whom I trust. Consider an article that he wrote: "Zakamulin concluded that the real-life performance of the market-timing strategies suggest that over a long run, one can expect that a market-timing strategy delivers only marginally better risk-adjusted ...

Another example of the information asymmetry is how the middle class mainly dabble in the secondary markets: they trade in stocks, bonds, etc. The upper class dabble in the actual economy of businesses... power... the primary market. Jacob, Your ideas are always enlightening. Your quote above goes ...