Early Retirement Extreme

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

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Published in November 16th, 2013
Posted by in Blogging, Timely
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Here is a selection of blogs that I recently added to my reader. I usually find myself subscribing to “small” blogs, maybe by virtue of seeking out the unconventional and contrarian, it naturally precludes any blog that is or becomes popular—or maybe it’s just me and my contrarian ways of not being able to relate […]

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The education of an investor

Published in November 5th, 2013
Posted by in Finance
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People who prefer not thinking about their investments ever again even when their investment income becomes comparable to their wage income are probably well off joining everybody else in a low cost index fund. If the index tanks for years on end — think Nikkei, the Japanese stock market index, which after an impressive “new […]

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The reason for the dearth of investment posts on ERE

Published in November 4th, 2013
Posted by in Finance
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The most popular request for specific topics include more posts on investments and investing. I have been very reluctant to do so and there is a good reason I’m not doing this. The reason is that I simply do not have a good theory of investing (but neither do very many others). Investing science is […]

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