Fawcett’s Favorites 10-4-21

Every week I find a few great articles I feel are especially valuable. Following are this week’s best. I hope you find them as useful as I did. This week’s favorites include financial planning is not an emergency, the difference between rich and wealthy, shorting the dollar using real estate, why you should ignore the … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 7-5-21

Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include how to know it’s time to retire, thinking of purchases based on the hours of your … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 5-17-21

Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include investing for seven generations, are real estate tax advantages going away under Biden, why good savers … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 4-5-21

Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include FIRE lessons from the Jamaican Bobsled team, the best way to pay off debt, proof that … Read more

5 Lessons I Learned From my Mother

(Today’s guest post comes from Gayle Morris, a nurse practitioner who shares her lessons from mom. I especially like #5.) I never truly appreciated the hard work and effort my mother put into raising us until I became a mother myself. Parents have an incredible responsibility to raise the next generation and I learned many … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 8-10-20

Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include how owning individual stocks can destroy your portfolio, how to overcome financial mistakes, making a financial … Read more

No Chicken Little, the Sky is Not Falling

I recently was part of a conversation on social media in which the following question was posed: Watching the past couple days of red in the S&P 500 is a little scary, and I am wondering what percent of people have sold vs. staying the course? Of course, many people chimed in with their comments, … Read more

Was the Recent Stock Market Drop Abnormal?

Whenever the stock market drops, even a tiny bit, everyone goes crazy. The news headlines always state a reason for the drop, whether their reason was the culprit or not. They imply one specific thing that happened in the world is responsible for the downturn. “Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters,” “Worry about oil … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 3-30-20

Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include a review of The Doctors Guide to Eliminating Debt (survival prep), six recommended moves for your … Read more