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Spend For Today or Save For Tomorrow

Spend For Today or Save For Tomorrow

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Last week I logged onto Vanguard and tinkered with my investments. I didn’t sell or buy anything–nothing that I would call bad investing practice–but I did reduce the amount of money being shoveled into my beloved VTSAX each week by half. This reduction in after-tax cash going into the markets wasn’t driven by any emotion, though I did have an emotional wave of guilt wash over me when clicking the edit button on my auto-investments. It’s always the same internal…

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Do Higher Taxes Equal Greater Happiness?

Do Higher Taxes Equal Greater Happiness?

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While sitting in my backyard on an early Saturday morning reading the news, I came across another one of those silly happiest countries on earth reports. I find them silly anyway. Trying to determine an entire country’s happiness and then ranking them against one another seems to be a waste of time at first glance. But the silliness and the thought of hundreds, maybe thousands of hours spent making this report piqued my interest, and so I decided to dig…

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When Too Much Information Is The Problem

When Too Much Information Is The Problem

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When my construction project ended in March of 2020, my company sent me to another job that had a notorious reputation as being plagued with problem after problem, coupled with a very difficult owner. This job was running two years over the original completion date and nobody was happy about that. Right after getting word of where I was going, being curious about my new future, I looked up on our shared drive for recent photos and drawings of the…

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