Our dog threw up FOUR socks last night and midnight x-rays indicate she likely has another one “moving through her” that will require a follow-up x ray today to check its progress 🙃
Reminder number 746 to have an adequate emergency fund. Pet insurance is a good idea too.
No negative market returns over rolling 15 year periods. The 'worst' average annual growth rate was 8% over 30 years.
Charts like this never get old to me. ) Thanks, @awealthofcs!
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Taxes are your biggest expense in life so strategic tax planning is a must, pay your legal share and not a dollar more.
Tax code is over 75,000 pages and the wealthy use every page to legally avoid taxes (and you should too)
Here are 7 tax tips that can save thousands:
Haven't done much self-promotion lately, but episode 💯 of Financial Clarity for Doctors is arriving on Monday wherever you get your podcasts.
We'll discuss some universal principals of money.
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$975,000 gain or $250,000 loss?
People often say buying a house was the best financial decision they've made.
But when they calculate the gain, they look at two data points:
- what they paid
- what they sold it for (or what it's worth today)
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Upcoming podcast guest shares that she bought her house for $142,000, sold it for ~$185,000, but actually walked away with ~$12,000 in the bank
I estimate that 90%+ of people in America think they'd walk away with [185 minus 142 = $43,000]
I love when recipes say, “ready in 15 minutes!” Yet here I am two hours later and it’s still not ready.
They must buy their veggies pre-chopped, spices pre-measured, and water pre-boiled.
A $600,000 house with 20% down will cost you $1,125,412 over 30 years
This is pre any other expenses that go into it
Not many understand this
What they also don't understand is in the first 4 years they will have paid $119,725 in interest but only built $21,000 in equity (pre any appreciation)
In today's environment, be sure you want to buy and live there for awhile
There's still time to get student loan forgiveness under temporary PSLF if working for a qualifying employer. Must act before May 1st, 2023.
Do a Direct Loan Consolidation & verify employers on PSLF app. In July, you should get credited for payments.
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Homes on average grow around 3.5% to 3.8% / year
That is before inflation, fees, insurance, taxes, etc
Homes are great tool for you to build a life with your family
Not a great investment
Sure, better than the alternatives
But still not a good investment numerically
So far this decade (since start of 2020), US stocks have realized about an 8.5% annualized return.
One could say the last three years have been pretty average. Nothing too exciting to report.