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March 7, 2019

Common Sense Investing

Common Sense Investing is a book about investing by Rick Van Ness describes ten simple rules to finance your dreams. It is for investors getting started and learning the basic concepts of how to choose funds and control investment risk. This is a basic book but critically important because common mistakes cause people to retire […]


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Published on March 07, 2019 09:15

March 4, 2019

Best Investing Books of All Time

You know, if you read this website, that I believe people have different learning styles and hence would choose different answers to this question. But, there are consensus opinions. Here are several published lists: Sorry, I’m busy updating this. (March 2019) Here is a good list from Bogleheads wiki Start-up books Book1 Book2 Classics Book1 […]


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Published on March 04, 2019 16:43

Personal Finance Blogs, Websites and other resources

Good personal finance blogs and websites can be excellent resources. Make them part of your lifelong learning. Also check out my list of best books on investing. Helpful Personal Finance Websites for Beginner Investors Learn which personal finance websites you can trust, and avoid those that are actually trying to sell you something.  Web/Blog: I […]


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Published on March 04, 2019 16:07

Personal Finance Blogs and Websites

Helpful Personal Finance Websites for Beginner Investors Learn which personal finance websites you can trust, and avoid those that are actually trying to sell you something.  Web/Blog: Road Map for Investing Success This is Paul Crafter’s free online investing primer. It’s excellent. Web/Blog: I’ve been following Mike Piper‘s blog, Oblivious Investor, for over a year. […]


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Published on March 04, 2019 16:07

January 13, 2019

The Bogleheads’ Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio

How a simple portfolio of three total market index funds outperforms most investors with less risk. One of the rules of common sense investing is to keep it simple. The three-fund portfolio has long been a simple way to diversify across foreign and domestic stocks, as well as bonds. The Bogleheads’ Guide to the Three-Fund […]


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Published on January 13, 2019 11:46

The Best From The Best: Books From John C. Bogle

John C. Bogle died in January 2019. Anyone interested to learn about investing needs to understand what he spent his life trying to teach us. Please read my tribute to him and learn and why he is on my short list of personal heroes. He is also a brilliant writer. He can reduce complexity to […]


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Published on January 13, 2019 11:45

How To Think About Money by Jonathan Clements

Want a more prosperous, less stressful financial life? This is the best book I have read in the past five years and a perfect cornerstone for everything we say at FinancingLife.org. Jonathan Clements was a personal-finance columnist at The Wall Street Journal for 20 years. He writes so well and thinks so clearly that even […]


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Published on January 13, 2019 11:44

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June 20, 2016

Your Money Your Life – Interview Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin describes the nine steps to financial independence that she wrote about in her book Your Money or Your Life.


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Published on June 20, 2016 10:40

October 9, 2015