Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism

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Published in August 29th, 2011
Posted by in Timely, Work
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My impression is that many who read this site are ambitious hard working people who have simple grown tired of jobs, you know, the places where you spend 9-5 doing work that could have been done in half the time if it wasn’t for meetings, time-wasting procedures, and projects that are going nowhere. Forsooth, there’s […]

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The major risks of buy and hold index investing

Published in August 25th, 2011
Posted by in Finance
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I see stock markets falling in three, possibly more, stages. The first stage is the golden age of capitalism, where owners run and have a stake in their own company. In the second stage operations and stakeholdership is taken over by professionals, that is, CEOs, who own less than 1% of the company, and (institutional) […]

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“Your early retirement lifestyle is one step away from being homeless…”

Published in August 24th, 2011
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance
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One of the most annoying aspects about living with a low expense level is dealing with well-meaning (and ill-meaning) people who think more spending is in order: “How can anyone be happy spending so little?”, “This is one step away from being homeless.”, “Living below the poverty line doesn’t sound like much fun”, and so […]

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