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July 6, 2022By Paula Pant

#390: Ask Paula: Help! My Bills Are Too High

We start this episode with two anonymous callers who have opposite problems: one says her bills are too high, while the other is worried that she’s saving too much.

Anonymous (“Izzy”) saves A LOT. She wants to relax about her spending more, and start including more joy into her life. How should she approach the next 10 or 20 years, so that she can enjoy her financial security?

A different anonymous caller (“Starlight”) has the opposite problem: her expenses are mounting. Her bills make her uncomfortable. She wants to shake up her investments so that she can tap her assets in order to make her payments. Ideally, she’d also like to buy a house in Europe within the next 10 years. How should she do this?

John liked the episode with Bill Bengen, where we discussed the 4% rule.  However, he questions whether that rule should really be applied to the FIRE community.

Steve is a landlord who needs his property to cash flow, but doesn’t like to raise rents. What should he do?

Do you have a question on business, money, trade-offs, financial independence strategies, travel, or investing? Leave it here and we’ll answer them in a future episode.

Enjoy!

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January 13, 2022By Paula Pant

#357: Practical Investing and the Efficient Frontier, with Joe Saul-Sehy

 Discussing advanced investing topics with me is former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy.

You may recognize him from the Ask Paula episodes, but we discuss financial topics shared in his new book “STACKED: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management” – co-authored with Emily Guy Birken.

Enjoy!

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February 24, 2011Written By Paula Pant

The Surprising Reason I Read AARP Magazine … In My Twenties

Guess what magazine I’m always reading?

If you guessed something targeted at 20-somethings or 30-somethings, you’re wrong. I love AARP magazine — the bimonthly publication of the American Association of Retired Persons.

It shows up in the mailbox at my 70-year-old parents suburban home, but I steal it away to my city apartment and devour […]

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February 22, 2011Written By Paula Pant

You Are Not Entitled to Retirement (and That’s Great News)

Retirement is such a part of our cultural fabric that it’s viewed as a basic human right.

It’s the final chapter in the American Dream: a home, a family, a secure retirement.

But it hasn’t always been this way.

For much of American history, people worked until they were too sick to work anymore. […]

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