Two good financial blogs

Annie H.

Annie H.

Egalatarian
Lots of great tips in these and I've been reading them for a bit

http://www.obliviousinvestor.com
http://thefinancebuff.com/

For those interested in early retirement:
http://raddr-pages.com/forums/index.php?sid=4d1ef7040541cf6171df34929972e9b0

For good list:

http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Financial_websites_and_blogs

As previously mentioned, Bogleheads is a great resource for all things financial. and there's a policy of "No Solicitation or Link Farming."

I was inspired to post the links by TBB's blog satire and in memory of all the precious hours I've wasted on MS blogs trying to find the holy grail!
 
Matt

Matt

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Staff member
Thanks for sharing these - as you are quite active with this area I'd be keen to see you start up a few topics here that are of interest to you too.
 
Annie H.

Annie H.

Egalatarian
Matt said:
Thanks for sharing these - as you are quite active with this area I'd be keen to see you start up a few topics here that are of interest to you too.
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I would love to and hope to soon although right now MS is of interest to me :) Right now I'm spending my time reading everything I can about MS--and wasting a lot of time on repetitive, card churning blogs or 3 hr FT threads to find the "secret"-, setting up ACs, applying for CCs and totally revamping my miles/points accumulation plan. I'm probably bit off more than I could chew trying to do too much at once and swallow too much information instead of starting up slowly.

I'd love it if anyone here would volunteer to "mentor" mostly so I can ask questions about what *not* to do. I contacted two folks, sequentially, on FT who agreed to mentor me but after told them what I'd already done they said they weren't the right mentor for me! I'm going to ask a question now about applying for credit cards and hope I get some good answers.

Thanks for this great Forum.
 
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LowHassleMS

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points and miles addicts know there are good bloggers like frequent miler and there are others who just pimp financial products. Unfortunately I had not found the frequent milers of personal finance world. Thanks for making these suggestions.
 
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Badassity

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Since I've only just discovered this forum, I've just bookmarked the a/m sites that are new to me for future.

I do need to emphasize both the MMM blog and Jim Collins blog that SuperK and shopper girl mentioned. They are awesome. I wish I'd had stuff like that 20 years ago. Bogleheads forum of course is an excellent resource as well. Though I tend toward early retirement rather than just investing in general so I find I have more in common with the first two. I enjoy the MMM controversy on the Bogleheads site the most. Shameful I know.

I will need to check out obliviousinvestor again since it is so highly recommended from Annie H. As well as the new ones to me. But that's after I delve into Saverocity for several days!
 
Matt

Matt

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Badassity said:
Since I've only just discovered this forum, I've just bookmarked the a/m sites that are new to me for future.

I do need to emphasize both the MMM blog and Jim Collins blog that SuperK and shopper girl mentioned. They are awesome. I wish I'd had stuff like that 20 years ago. Bogleheads forum of course is an excellent resource as well. Though I tend toward early retirement rather than just investing in general so I find I have more in common with the first two. I enjoy the MMM controversy on the Bogleheads site the most. Shameful I know.

I will need to check out obliviousinvestor again since it is so highly recommended from Annie H. As well as the new ones to me. But that's after I delve into Saverocity for several days!
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Welcome! I knew you were a MMM guy from a mile away (I could smell your badassity) very glad to have you here.
 
Annie H.

Annie H.

Egalatarian
Badassity said:
Bogleheads forum of course is an excellent resource as well. Though I tend toward early retirement rather than just investing in general so I find I have more in common with the first two.
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If you're on BH forum you probably know about these resources for early retirement (pardon me if I've posted them before, I'm lazy today).
http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/
http://www.firecalc.com/
There are other calculators out there for folks who want to figure out how much they need to save each year and/or overall for retirement. I can dig up if anyone is interested.
One surprising statistic is upon reaching age 65-- in today's dollars-you need to allocate $250K for health care costs to last to end of life. I love Medicare and with a secondary I don't have a 20% co-pay but overall premiums --Part D for RXs, Part B premium paid to gov't and Part D which is the supplemental--are 25% of my SS monthly income. As far as medical expenses you then need to add: optical, dental and hearing aid costs.

http://saverocity.com/forum/threads/two-good-financial-blogs.363/#post-3909

I think a retirement subsection would be a great idea. Retirement in general and early retirement specifically. (yes, as soon as I finish learning MS, I'll be glad to participate :)
 
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Badassity

Level 2 Member
I love early-retirement.org! And firecalc was used often. Thanks though… much appreciated. Excellent resources.
Being Canadian, I don't have exactly the same retirement concerns as you, health care for instance (I know it's the big one). But… we want to travel all over in a couple more years, so health care is a concern per se.

I think that retirement (and early retirement specifically) subsection would be awesome!
 
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