While other “Magnificent Seven” companies spend big on AI, Apple’s more conservative strategy has turned the stock into a valuable portfolio hedge against volatility.
The recent resurrection of The Odyssey in public consciousness is good for more than just entertainment value: Missouri lawmakers in particular could learn from the epic. At one point in the original tale (not the Christopher Nolan retelling, sadly), Aeolus gifts Odysseus a bag that gives him power over the four winds. If Odysseus lets…
Royal Caribbean ships will continue to skip stops in Haiti through mid-2027. The cruise line extended its pause on calls to Labadee, its private destination on Haiti’s northern coast, through June 2027 amid ongoing violence in the Caribbean island country. Royal Caribbean had previously suspended stops there through December 2026. “This decision was made with…
Retirement travel is often treated as a financial question: Can I afford it? Our retirement travel survey suggests that for many people, it is not a money question. It’s primarily about time. We found that travel isn’t just another retirement expense. It’s one of the primary reasons people save for retirement at all. Turning that…
Self-employed individuals with no employees can open a solo 401k and contribute as both employee and employer: the full annual 401k limit on the employee side plus a percentage of business profits on the employer side. The combined ceiling far exceeds what an IRA allows and can significantly reduce your taxable self-employment income. Source
This past Father’s Day, June 21, 2026, I had a choice to make. I could play pickleball from 9am to 12noon at an indoor club called Flyte, a 30-minute drive north. Or I could take my kids 30 minutes south to the Bay Club Redwood Shores for swimming and tennis and pickleball lessons. For over…
Photo by Gabriel Meinert The subject of spending seems to be getting a lot of attention of late in and around the financial independence (FI) community. The issue seems to be that those pursuing FI are on a path of deprivation and delayed gratification, and this behavior becomes so ingrained that when the time…
