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What I Read in 2023

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on December 19th, 2023

Some really good biographies, plenty of fun fiction and some favorite authors round out the reading year. Hope you find something interesting you’d like to try for yourself here:

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Charlie Munger's Timeless Wisdom on Long-Term Saving and Investing

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on December 5th, 2023

You may have never heard of him, but last week Warren Buffett’s business and investing partner at Berkshire-Hathaway, Charlie Munger, died at the age of 99. He helped Buffett build the company into the 7th most valuable in the U.S.

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The Wisdom of Wally

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on October 10th, 2023

I first wrote this 3 ½ years ago and believe it is an excellent reminder that, as investors, we are owners of the companies we buy shares in, even if indirectly through mutual funds. I also updated it at the end to show how Wally’s wisdom played out…so far.

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How I Manage My Money

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on August 28th, 2023

On his recent podcast, the New York University Finance professor and investor, Scott Galloway, revealed his very personal thoughts about his own money. He explained his anxieties about money, his thoughts on marriage and how it relates to money, his approach to investing and what financial independence means to him.

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My Grandma Tootsie and the Stock Market

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on July 31st, 2023

My Great-Grandma Tootsie was born in 1880, just 15 years after the end of the Civil War! She lived to be 98 and died when I was 14 so I not only met her but I knew her and remember her well. On the day she died, she picked up some of her younger, 80-something year-old friends in her Studebaker and drove them to lunch.

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How Americans Define Wealth, Survey Says

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on June 26th, 2023

Charles Schwab Co. released the results of their recent survey that sought to quantify how much Americans think it takes to be wealthy. While the numbers are certainly interesting, what I found fascinating and refreshing was that the survey indicated most people include non-financial factors when quantifying their own wealth.

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A Book for My College-Age Son and His Friends

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on May 22nd, 2023

I recently purchased 6 copies of The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel for my son and his college friends. I told them to consider this their first graduation gift – a year early – and I decided to provide it in advance in hopes they would all start thinking about their financial futures now. Why now?

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ChatGPT Wrote this Blog

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on April 10th, 2023

I steadfastly ignored articles about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the new ChatGPT – the language processing tool that can assist you with composing emails, essays and, yes, blogs. I ignored it until I listened to a podcast that described some of the ways AI may help transform the economy. Autonomous vehicles is an obvious one that leaps to mind.

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Finding Your Post-Retirement Purpose

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on March 20th, 2023

A bank used to run a TV ad during the SEC Game of the Week where a man, talking about retirement, says he plans to do “absolutely nothing.” His wife then leans in and says, “He means it.” That’s not a plan for retirement, that’s a plan for a vacation. Be careful not to confuse the two.

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How Much Should You Have to Retire?

Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on February 27th, 2023

My inbox gets pounded like new shingles after a windstorm on a daily basis. Mutual fund companies, firms selling technology “solutions” to problems I didn’t know I had, financial advice columns, etc. Recently, on successive days, I received emails with the following headlines from two different publications:

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ABOUT THIS BLOG

In 1996 Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D. wrote a seminal book entitled, The Millionaire Next Door. These two researchers went in search of the rich in the country: Who are they? What do they do? What do they drive? How do they invest? They discovered, much to their surprise, that many of the wealthy in this country don’t live in the most expensive neighborhood or drive the fanciest cars but are ordinary people living right among us regular people. Because, remember, wealth is not the same as income. If one earns a high income and spends it all each year, one isn’t getting wealthier, just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

This blog is about and for those who live beneath their means, save their money, invest and, yes, get wealthy the old-fashioned way: steadily, over many years.

And I’ll occasionally share interesting stories that are completely unrelated to the main topic of financial planning.

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