Monthly Older Posts: June 2025

How has my thinking about retirement planning changed in the past ten years?

I was thinking this week about what I have learned since I started our retirement plan more than ten years ago and since I wrote Next Egg Care roughly eight years ago. I have not radically changed my thinking. If anything, the logic that I

May inflation: still tame.

Inflation in May was less than inflation in April. Inflation in the month was the third lowest in the last year. The six-month run rate is about 2.6% for the year, lower than the prior 3.0% run rate. The historial 12-month rate for inflation has

Did you get a 20% reduction in your expense ratio?

In February, Vanguard lowered expense ratios for more 168 mutual funds. The total cut in fees is $350 million that owners of Vanguard funds get to keep this year. I had not looked at the effect on our portfolio. This post shows that our total

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