I came across this article on Yahoo Finance entitled, “Boomers are leaving America to retire abroad in droves because the U.S. is just too expensive” and my immediate thought was will they ruin the whole point of moving overseas? According to the article, there were 400,000 people receiving social security overseas in 2000 and that…
Category: Personal Management
Are You Prepared For A Lost Decade?
The stock market has been on a seemingly never ending tear. It’s given people a sense that nothing can go wrong and the market will always go up but there is a precedent for a potential lost decade. From 2000 to 2009, the S&P 500 (via SPY) returned -39.53% and while after 2009 things lost…
Book Review: The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
I’ve been researching places to retire overseas and part of that research is to understand the culture and compatibility we (wife and I) may have with different countries. To that end, I picked up a copy of Erin Meyer’s “The Culture Map” to understand what we may encounter in different parts of the world. It’s…
Zepbound: My Health Journey – June Edition
I’ve gone backwards with Zepbound. I had to travel two weeks for work and while I still took my Zepbound, I was in business meeting that often ended with a business dinner at some fancy restaurant. While I mostly ate salads and refrained from any alcohol, I still managed to gain about 4 pounds during…
Going On Vacation
I have had a tough time with all the travel for work so I am taking a vacation and won’t be posting until I get back in mid July. I’ve been living out of a suitcase for two weeks and now I need time to decompress. In the meantime, if you need something to read…
Corporate Burnout & Golden Handcuffs
One of the reasons I started this blog back up after a very long hiatus was the fact that I had a growing sense of corporate burn out. I’ve written about my college days where I worked at pizza places doing a variety of crappy jobs but today I’m going to write about the other…
Inflation At Home May 2024
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases their Consumer Price Index report monthly and the one for May came out this week. It’s one of the few government statistics report that I actually look at to see trends and do personal finance forecasting. So what’s happening with inflation? Household Insurance Home owners (and renters) insurance continues…
My New Parallel Medical Ecosystem
I’ve embarked on a journey to build my own parallel medical system that is somewhat outside the current medical ecosystem which I believe to be fundamentally broken. I’m not talking about alternative medicine such as herbs, teas, magic crystals or copper bracelets but new startup medical firms that have a science based but different perspective…
Pizza For 3, $75!
I work from home and I generally cook most meals after work because the kitchen is just a few feet away. Last my daughter asked why we don’t order pizza any more. I looked at her puzzled. I hadn’t really thought about when the last time it was that we ordered pizza. After starting my…
ZepBound: My Health Journey May Edition
I’ve been reading about how these GLP-1 drugs change people’s personality and I have been thinking about that a great deal because to some extent my personality has changed. But before we get to that I want to tell you that while taking this medicine has been great, hunting for it has not. Express Scripts…