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I’m writing this from Palm Springs, California, I’m here for FinCon, which if you’ve never heard of it is basically the annual gathering of the whole money media world. Bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, writers, financial coaches, authors, and the brands that work with all of them. This year it’s three days at the Palm Springs Convention Center packed full of sessions, hallway conversations, and a whole lot of people who talk about money for a living […]
Imagine retiring early at 34… but not on the back of a decade at a US tech giant, selling a start-up, or even retiring from the Premier League, but after crossing the globe on a bicycle and then finding an edge in the early prediction markets. Few of us will follow a path like that of Pablo – a Spanish FIRE-ee who declared the game won in 2022 – but his unique story can inspire […]
In this post, I offer a brief response to a recent thoughtful Reddit post. Credit to the poster for putting his or her views out there in an organized fashion and continuing the discourse. The poster is concerned about one of the predictions Cody Garrett and I make in the book Tax Planning To and […]
Welcome back to another monthly update from Root of Good! We are at home in Raleigh for a two month stretch right now. I forgot how nice it is to relax at home! During August, we spent a week in northern California visiting the Redwoods National Park and state parks. The last few days of the trip we spent driving south along the Pacific Coast Highway and enjoyed other scenic drives in the area. In […]
Earlier this year, I wrote about our early retirement healthcare options in Canada, specifically options for extended health care in early retirement. The research behind that article took a while and I thought the data … Read more
Selling an investment in retirement can feel very different from receiving a dividend. One feels like spending down something you worked for years to accumulate. The other feels like skimming income off the top while leaving the underlying investment alone. Retirees who spent decades being told to save, invest, and avoid touching principal can be understandably reluctant to sell shares once retirement begins. A dividend seems to solve that problem neatly. You receive money in […]
You may think that you need a traditional education to reach Financial Freedom, but on this episode, Tinian Crawford is here to tell us otherwise. He shares with us how lucrative a job in the Trades can be and why more people should be looking to a trade career and building their DIY skills to help them reach their goals of Financial Independence. On this episode you will learn: Tinian’s backstory & his entrepreneurial […]
More than half of Gen Z adults ages 18 to 29 put money they had intended to invest for retirement into sports betting over the past year, according to a recent survey.
What good is having money if you have nobody to enjoy it with? Learn more about how to plan your retirement around things that matter by reading this week’s terrific links. Doing nothing is a strategy. Behavioural Investment Five steps to address the reality of aging. The Retirement Manifesto What is your safe withdrawal rate during retirement? Morningstar Is retirement terrible for your brain? Two/Percent How to m…The post I Don’t Like Mondays…..When Is My Retirement? appeared first on A Teachable Moment.
U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in August 2026, while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows. Yet hiring remains cautious. July recorded 5.1 million hires, and hiring in professional and business services fell by 188,000. For workers planning decades ahead, that matters because retirement security depends on earning power long before it depends on portfolio withdrawals. Traditional retirement planning often focuses on stocks, bonds, diversification and withdrawal […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done a reader case, so I thought I’d grab one from the ol’ inbox. So here we go! Dear Kristy & Bryce, Firstly- thank you so much for all you do! I have been reading your blog, then book for years and have been quietly inspired. So my story is a little unusual, and I’d love your thoughts (I know, not advice!)… I started on the FI/RE pathway 10 […]