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If you’re a homeowner looking to live for free, buying Treasury bonds today just might be the key. Once you’ve got your housing expenses under control, life becomes much easier.…

Make yourself useful to smart, successful people. That’s how you should spend the first ten years of your career. Surround yourself with smart, successful people and then bet on them.…

I haven’t had the time to write much this month because of my schedule and some unforeseen things that have popped up in my life, but I wanted to break…

Decumulation is the process of spending down your net worth so you don’t die with too much money. If you die with lots of money left over, you’ve essentially wasted…

TONIGHT! Cybersecurity is a $150 billion business annually, on its way to over $350 billion a year by the end of the decade. George Kurtz, founder and CEO of CrowdStrike,…

I have covered the topic of Prohibited Transactions in an earlier article – one of the main prohibitions is that you can’t self-deal with your IRA by borrowing from, selling…

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends, a new podcast from your favorite financial and investing commentators. This week, Michael Batnick, Eric Balchunas, and Downtown Josh Brown…

It’s safe to assume the vast majority of you reading Financial Samurai want to be rich. I trust those of you who’ve been reading this site between 2009 and 2012,…

Remember when we talked about how your Social Security Benefit is calculated? Your highest 35 earning years during your career are put into a formula, and the earnings are indexed,…

If you’ve ever read up on Social Security retirement benefits, you’ve likely come across a number called the Primary Insurance Amount, or PIA. So just what is PIA? That is,…

Photo credit: jb Bend points are the portions of your average income (Average Indexed Monthly Earnings – AIME) in specific dollar amounts that are indexed each year, based upon an…

Photo credit: jb You may already be familiar with the Wash Sale Rule for buying and selling securities. Briefly, when you sell a security at a loss, if you’ve purchased…

Photo credit: jb If you’ve been investing for any period of time, you may have run across the term Wash Sale. Do you know what it means? And what are…

Photo credit: jb (In case you’re confused by the headline: a principle is a rule, and pollex is an obscure term for thumb. Therefore, this series is all about Financial…

Photo credit: steelo Sometimes we fool ourselves. Sometimes we think we’re doing the right thing, when in fact the result is that we’re not at all doing what we think…

Photo credit: jb I received a question from a reader that sort of dovetails with the earlier post about payback from Social Security, so I thought I’d run through the…