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The Wealth Builder Carnival #139 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Welcome to the one hundred thirty-ninth edition of The Wealth Builder Carnival. The purpose of this carnival is to collect articles from the blogosphere on building, preserving and keeping enough weal...
Capital Preservation 27 Aug 2013 | 06:17 am
"Rule #1: Never lose money. Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1."~ Warren Buffett Today, I started to sell individual profitable stock positions, in anticipation of a stock market decline. Tomorrow, I wil...
Time to Be Risk Averse Again 26 Aug 2013 | 07:06 am
Last night I dreamed I was working at my old job again, receiving a regular paycheck, instead of being retired. I guess my subconscious was telling me that our 35% concentration in my company stock ...
College Costs and the Obama Plan 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Obama Takes on College Cartel reports that President Obama promises a plan to rate colleges based on performance for getting graduates jobs and also to reduce future costs for middle class students. ...
Changing our Investment Risk in Retirement 24 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Our main challenge with living off savings and retirement accounts is concentration risk. Although concentration can be a significant positive when values are increasing, it can be major negative whe...
Revising our Retirement Withdrawal Process 21 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Since retiring in 2007, we've been withdrawing funds based on an expense based budget. Due to the Great Recession, this was a relatively tight budget since we didn't want to overspend the funds in ou...
The Wealth Builder Carnival #138 20 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
Welcome to the one hundred thirty-eighth edition of The Wealth Builder Carnival. The purpose of this carnival is to collect articles from the blogosphere on building, preserving and keeping enough wea...
Preparing for a Correction 20 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
I'm becoming more worried about a significant market correction occurring before the end of 2013. First, the stock market is down about 4% from the all time highs set earlier this month. Second, the ...
Living Entirely Off Savings and Investments 19 Aug 2013 | 07:29 am
For the first time since retiring in 2007, we are living entirely off our savings and investments. We have no pensions, no Social Security since we are under 62, and no part time current or upcoming ...
Too Much Personal Exuberance 18 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
"It's déjà vu all over again." ~ Yogi Berra It's starting to feel like 2007 again to me. Back then, I recall the stock market (and my company stock) kept advancing despite many negative factors (e.g...
