Q2 2019 Financial Goals and Performance
Summer has finally arrived after what felt like the longest, wettest winter and spring in New York history. In the second quarter, the S&P 500 rallied 4.1% inclusive of dividends,…
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Q1 2019 Financial Goals and Performance
What a brutal winter. The weather in New York was pretty miserable all the first quarter. Good thing the market rallied over 13% during that time! Nothing like strong market…
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January 2019 Financial Goals and Status Update
January is finally over. While it seems like it’s been a full year since 2018, we’ve still got 11 months left! Thankfully the market performed well during the month, so…
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Financial Freedom Lab’s 2018 Year in Review
Wow. 2018 was, well, something. For the first nine months of the year, it seemed both the market and my finances could do no wrong. Then the fourth quarter rolled…
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10 Years to Financial Freedom
Start the countdown. My days of working for someone else are numbered. In the next 3,650 days (or less), I will achieve financial freedom. No, I’m not planning to win…
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Welcome to the Financial Freedom Lab!
The Why I’m your principal investigator, Barry Beaker (not my real name, of course). I built the Financial Freedom Lab to catalog my experiments in personal finance. My goal is…
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