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Recently, a home in the beautiful Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco was listed for $2.4 million. It had four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a modest 2,250 square feet. The home had been remodeled about 15 years earlier and was squarely in the price frenzy zone. As we do with every open house, my wife […]

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Robinhood is one of the most popular online brokerage firms today, especially among younger investors who actively trade. During COVID, Robinhood famously restricted trading in 13 stocks on January 28, 2021. As a result, thousands of investors were unable to buy or sell, and billions of dollars in value swung during the freeze. Robinhood does […]

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If you never spend your investment gains, what exactly are you investing for? This question hit me hard after a year of nonstop financial management, market volatility, and real estate turnover in 2025. I had done everything “right” from an investing perspective, yet I felt deprived. So I made a new financial rule for myself: […]

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All of us have three main options to profit from AI: 1) Invest in the right AI companies. 2) Work for the right AI companies. 3) Invest in real estate that will benefit from the AI boom. Investing in the right AI companies is easier said than done. The gorillas like Google, Tesla, Nvidia have […]

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In a surprise move, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (X) and Block (Square, Cash App), announced a mass layoff affecting about 4,000 employees out of Block’s roughly 10,000 employees. For a company that is still growing, a ~40% cut is extraordinary. As the author of the #1 severance negotiation book, How To Engineer Your Layoff, I […]

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After three consecutive years of double-digit returns in the S&P 500 since 2023, I decided to cut cable. The reason was simple: I’m conditioning myself to prepare for hard times by not only reducing expenses, but also freeing up time to focus. Yeah, I know. Here in America, when you make a lot of money, […]

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From 2009, when I started writing about FIRE, until now, the FIRE movement has had a great run. It was born out of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis, when hundreds of thousands of people were losing their jobs. In order to cope with the sudden disruption to their economic livelihoods, the concept of FIRE was […]

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