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Testing the 4% Rule Today and Across Longer Withdrawal Periods
Testing the 4% Rule Today and for Longer Periods of Time!
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What is Coast FI, How to Calculate Your Number, and is it Right For You?
What's Coast FI and how far along are you to reaching your Coast FI number?
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FIRE – Why I Want to Have The Option to Retire Early
I realized I never talked about FIRE(financial independence/retire early) on this blog. I’ve been talking about goals lately so I figure it’d be good to visit my ultimate goal. I want the option to retire early. The FIRE movement is often painted with a broad brush and seen as a group of people saving money in order to retire as quickly as possible. However, FIRE to me isn’t as simple as having an endpoint and doing whatever possible to get there. It’s simply about having options. That is what makes it so appealing to me. Let’s go back in time to 2008. I was an anxious, skinny graduate looking for…