MONEYANATOMY

As part of preparation for some of the adverse life events (such as death or incapacitation) I posted an article  with a plan which describe...

As you can see from the previous post  I am in the process of organizing everything so that in case of death there is a plan instead of a co...

Planning for retirement takes time. What about planning for after that?  Or what about if you die even before you get a chance to ...

Have you tried to put a Fraud Alert on Equifax, Experian or TransUnion?  You can put the Fraud Alert with only one of the agencies and ...

There are many nice blogs by physicians who set as their goal to retire early from their medical carriers.   I do have a family his...

I am not a political person but t his week I attended a meeting with Congressman Phil Roe as a key note speaker. One of the things he talked...

As I mentioned before my granduncle is 102 years old.  I want to at least become as old as he and I want to beat him.  I will celeb...

Why do I want this challenge? The most common advise is to do " indexing ". That means to invest long term in an exchange t...

Conservative estimates of 1% per year  for returns of my investments are really very conservative. I am sure they are not realistic, in a go...

After I maxed out all tax advantaged options, there is nothing else left for me then to open a taxable investments account. What taxes wo...

Indexing is a passive long term investment strategy. Indexing can be achieved with mutual funds or exchange traded funds (ETFs) which clo...

The tax advantaged options are very few:  401k (and similar plans like  403(b), 457 and SEP), IRA s and HSA . HSA is a special case: it ...

Assuming the taxes in retirement will be lower , then a Traditional IRA with tax-deductible contributions is a better choice.   However, n...

There are two views on how taxes will change in retirement. Some say they will go up or stay the same, the others say they will go down. W...