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Tag: Emergency Fund

Inflation, Investing, Savings, Spending

Inflation, Rising Mortgage Rates & a Bear Market… What Should You Do?

We are all paying more for pretty much everything.  If you want to buy a house, mortgage rates are up over 70% in the last six months, and the S&P 500, the primary metric for the ‘stock market’, recently entered […]

By Anthony SJuly 2, 2022
Bonds, ETFs, Financial Goals, Investing, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance, Rat Race Off Ramp, Savings, Stocks

Where Should You Save?

In Step 5 of the ‘Rat Race Off Ramp’, I wrote about how to ‘Ramp Up Your Savings’.  Today, I’ll go over where those savings should go.  For the most part, where you save and invest comes down to when […]

By Anthony SMay 15, 2020
6 Steps, Debt, Expenses, F.I.R.E., Financial Independence, Fixed Expenses, Personal Finance, Rat Race Off Ramp, Savings, Variable Expenses

Step 5: Ramp Up Your Savings

Updated: May 2021 Once you tackle your debt and have it under control, you can start taking leaps forward towards your ‘Off Ramp’.  Ramping up your savings will allow you to accelerate towards your financial goals, increase your net worth, […]

By Anthony SMay 8, 2020
Debt, Featured Post, Personal Finance, Retirement, Savings

Not the Beginning I Pictured

To say we are in different times now than when I started thinking about launching a personal finance blog would be an enormous understatement.  By now, you are acutely aware of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe.  My family […]

By Anthony SMarch 29, 2020
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