Here’s How You Can Retire to the Beaches of Maui on $6,500 a Month at 62
Someone in their early sixties looks at their portfolio, looks at a beach in Maui, and wants to know if the math works. The answer is that it can, but $6,500 a month on…
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‘These People Are Heroes’: Dave Ramsey Praises Couple Who Paid Off $420,000 in 10 Years
On a June 16 Ramsey Solutions debt-free stage segment, Scott and Kim from Applegate, California announced they had paid off $420,000 in 10 years, including credit cards, a car payment, IRS back taxes, a…
He’s Selling His Business for $900,000. Structuring It as an Installment Sale Could Spare Him a Five-Figure Medicare Surcharge.
A Big Payday With a Hidden Medicare Bill Attached Picture a 64-year-old business owner who has spent decades building something worth selling. A buyer is at the table with an offer around $900,000. He…
Three International Dividend ETFs Now Outyield SCHD by Nearly 2 Points in 2026
Income investors who built their portfolios entirely around U.S. dividend payers are leaving yield on the table in 2026. Three international dividend ETFs, Vanguard International High Dividend Yield Index Fund (NASDAQ:VYMI), iShares International Select…
The Real Cost of Retiring in Naples, Florida, Where No One Bothers You
Someone visits Naples, drives past the gated entrances off Pine Ridge or Vanderbilt Beach, and runs the numbers on a quiet life behind a guardhouse. The pitch sells itself: no state income tax, warm…
The Combat Zone Tax Exclusion: how one IRS code section makes your pay completely tax-free
If you’ve spent even a single day deployed to a designated combat zone, the IRS treats your military pay for that entire month as if you never earned it. It’s fully tax-free. This is…
The Fed Just Held Rates Flat and May Have Set Up the Biggest Social Security Raise in Years
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on June 17 during Chairman Kevin Warsh’s first policy meeting at the helm of the central bank. But forecasts revealed a more hawkish outlook among policymakers.…
‘Good God’: Dave Ramsey’s Reaction When a 29-Year-Old Reveals He Bought a $50,000 Truck While $135,000 in Debt
A 29-year-old caller from New Mexico phoned The Ramsey Show with his wife to ask whether they should sell their house, pull the equity, and use it to wipe out their debts. When the…
The Average 401(k) Balance at 50 Years Old Is $199,900. How Does Yours Compare?
Turning 50 is the moment retirement stops being abstract. Fidelity’s age-based guideline says you should have 6x your salary saved by 50, and the actual numbers from the largest recordkeepers suggest a lot of…
Fed Hawks Dominate Under Warsh: New Chairman Faces a Hawkish Committee on Rate Cuts
Kevin Warsh walks into his first Federal Open Market Committee meeting as chairman with a problem most new bosses dread. The people in the room do not appear to agree with him. Steve Liesman…
Tech Executives Use This $700,000 401(k) Strategy to Build Tax-Free Retirement Income
A post on r/FIREyFemmes earlier this spring captured the scenario well: a tech professional with annual RSU vests, a 401(k) plan that allows after-tax contributions, and a nagging sense that the standard $24,500 elective…
SpaceX’s Market Cap Surge Makes the $60 Billion Cursor Acquisition Look Nearly Free
On a recent Diet TBPN segment, John Coogan and callers Quinn Thompson and Nick Carter spent a chunk of the show trying to make sense of what happened to SpaceX’s (NASDAQ:SPCX | SPCX Price Prediction) after-hours…
The Dividend Growth Path That Turns $60,000 a Year Into $125,000
Sixty thousand dollars a year is the income many retirees are actually trying to replace. It is enough to support a comfortable lifestyle in much of the country, especially for households that have paid…
Wall Street Is Doing to GPUs What It Did to Mortgages Before 2008
Simon White, Bloomberg macro strategist, has been making rounds with a thesis that should rattle anyone who lived through 2008. Speaking on Bloomberg Businessweek, White described what he calls “the financialization of GPUs”, a…
Good News For SpaceX Investors. Wall Street CIO Says ‘Building Data Centers On Land … Might Be More Complicated Than Doing Them in Space’
Jordi Visser of 22V Research made a striking claim on a recent episode of The Pomp Podcast with Anthony Pompliano: “Building data centers on land might be at this point more complicated than doing…