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Coast FIRE — How to Spend All Your Money and Still Retire Rich

May 26, 2026 |
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Coast FIRE can produce many of the benefits of retirement, all while providing many of the benefits of still working. Here's what to know.

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4 Reasons Why We’re Spending Our HSA Money — And Why You Should, Too

May 12, 2026 |
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There are bad ways to spend your HSA, good ways to spend it, and great ways to spend it. Let's discuss how we decided to spend our HSA.

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Believing ‘Never Spend Principal’ Will Cost You Your 60s

May 04, 2026 |
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Some people believe you should never spend your principal in retirement. Here's why I totally disagree with that philosophy.

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Spend Intentionally

April 26, 2026 |
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Do your spending habits leave you with buyer's remorse? Promote health and wealth with your money by learning how to spend intentionally.

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How Mega-Rich People Lose All of Their Money — and How You Can Avoid That Fate

April 19, 2026 |
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Let’s examine a few cases of people who had tons and tons of money and then lost it all and see what we can learn from their mistakes.

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The Financial Lessons I’ve Learned from Watching My Favorite TV Shows

April 11, 2026 |
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They say too much TV will rot your brain. I spent many hours watching television, and my brain is fine—and I learned plenty about finance.

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The Calculus Behind Private Jet Services (Should You Buy NetJets?)

March 30, 2026 |
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I recently had a somewhat painful international travel experience. And it made me start thinking about the costs of private jet travel.

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The Perils of Using Prediction Markets Like Kalshi and Polymarket — And How They Could Wreck You

March 15, 2026 |
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Here's what you need to know about prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket and whether you should risk your money with them.

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The Power of ‘Live Like a Resident’

February 06, 2026 |
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A reader recently sent me a link to an article on why you should never live like a resident. Let's do a little debunking of that idea.

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Cash Balance Plans, Trusts, and the $1 Million Debate

February 05, 2026 |
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Answering plenty of listener questions about cash balance plans, revocable trusts, and what your peak spending years really mean and when they happen.

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How to Avoid the Hedonic Treadmill

January 25, 2026 |
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The hedonic treadmill can make you feel poorer even if you spend more every year. If you're on it, here's what you can do to get off it.

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Problems I Have with the Die with Zero Philosophy

December 19, 2025 |
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Die with Zero is one of the best books that WCIers can read. But the book (and some of the philosophies contained within it) has a few flaws.

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Reversing Your Lifestyle Creep

November 15, 2025 |
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What happens if you don’t live like a resident? What happens when you aren’t meeting your financial goals because of lifestyle creep?

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What’s Your Motivational Fire Toward Financial Literacy (and FIRE)? A Thrifty NP Sees the Light

October 20, 2025 |
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I used to be thrifty but not financial literate. This is my journey to learning about money and why, in retrospect, it was so vital.

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The 4% Rule and Saving for an Early Retirement

October 16, 2025 |
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Answering listener questions where we talk about methods to save up for an early retirement, how to calculate the 4% rule, and how to think about capital preservation.

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