Early Retirement Extreme

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Kettlebell challenge update II

Published in September 8th, 2009
Posted by in Health, Personal, Timely
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After about a month I hit the soft ceiling as expected. From now on it is going to be a slow grind of building muscle as all the neural gains have been maxed out. I can currently do 8L+8R snatches with 24kg/53lbs eight times in 8 minutes. This leaves me with a break of about […]

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Instructionals vs figuring things out for yourself

Published in August 31st, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Philosophy, Timely, Work
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I just wrote a How to Invest for an Extremely Early Retirement instructional for eHow. I must admit, I do not particularly like to write these often requested articles. In my opinion, they are a bit like writing articles on the line of “how to mix your own gun powder” or “how to turn your […]

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It feels good when the stock market is moving up …

Published in August 25th, 2009
Posted by in Finance, Timely
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… checking and reporting holdings constantly, whereas when the market moves down, we ignore our holdings (If you don’t see them, they don’t exist) and definitely do not talk about them. The mood is definitely up these days! Now via hussmanfunds’ weekly commentary I found this Bernanke statement “Our forecast is for moderate but positive […]

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