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Thanksgiving: The Keeping Story
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 11/26/2025
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THE REAL RETURN ON DELAYING SOCIAL SECURITY
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 11/12/2025
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Which Brokerage Works Best for U.S. Expats?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 11/18/2025
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Does My Sister Need a Financial Advisor?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 11/4/2025
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The Conversation: Contrarian Meets Momentum
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 11/7/2025
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Contrarian Thinking About Roth Conversions
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 10/15/2025
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Your Portfolio, Your Business
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Our Special Relationship
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Laughter, the Best Medicine
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 9/8/2025
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Smarter Giving in Retirement and the Medicare Gotcha
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 9/7/2025
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Paper Certificates to Real-Time
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 8/23/2025
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Outliving Your Money? Let’s Do the Math on Annuities
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 8/13/2025
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The Silent Compounding Cost of a 1% Fee
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 5/13/2025
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When an Index Fund Is Not an Index Fund
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 7/27/2025
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Dividend Days
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 6/28/2025
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“A Complex Portfolio, a Modest Account”
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The Victim Might Be You
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 5/21/2025
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Safety Net or Gambling Chip? Wrestling with Wealth and Wisdom”
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 4/7/2025
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What Kind of Loss Is This?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 4/4/2025
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Luck or Providence?
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My Favorite Websites
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Resolutions:
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 12/28/2024
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No tax on your Social Security?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 11/23/2024
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Everything About Retirement on a 3x5 card
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Post: Thanksgiving: The Keeping Story
Link to comment from November 27, 2025
The primary source for the quote “The young men that were most able and fit for labour and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense” (and the surrounding passage describing the communal system’s failures) is William Bradford’s manuscript history Of Plymouth Plantation, written primarily between 1630 and 1651. This work was first published in full in 1856 (edited by Charles Deane as History of Plymouth Plantation), based on the original manuscript discovered in the Bishop of London’s library. The quote appears in Chapter 10 (“1621–1623”), where Bradford reflects on the colony’s early economic struggles and the shift to private land allotments in 1623. Modern editions (e.g., the 1963 Modern Library version) retain the original spelling and phrasing for fidelity to the 17th-century source.
Post: Thanksgiving: The Keeping Story
Link to comment from November 27, 2025
I prefer primary sources. Presentism has interesting biases.
Post: Thanksgiving: The Keeping Story
Link to comment from November 27, 2025
OK… 🤔
Post: Thanksgiving: The Keeping Story
Link to comment from November 27, 2025
Thank you! 😄 Happy Thanksgiving
Post: Thanksgiving: The Keeping Story
Link to comment from November 27, 2025
Your depth of personal experience is helpful.
Post: Which Brokerage Works Best for U.S. Expats?
Link to comment from November 22, 2025
Well honestly that would be a little too much information for Humble Dollar 😳
Post: Is the current stock market anything to be concerned about?
Link to comment from November 21, 2025
I can’t sleep… but it is my knees, back and other body parts keeping me awake. So is my allocation wrong? 😏
Post: Is the current stock market anything to be concerned about?
Link to comment from November 21, 2025
Good to know… This info should just be the start of someone’s research. I have been told that Charles S. also allows free ATM’s around the world but that should be verified.
Post: Which Brokerage Works Best for U.S. Expats?
Link to comment from November 19, 2025
Indexing only seems simple today because technology has made it effortless. Fifty years ago, building and maintaining a 500-stock portfolio, rebalancing it, tracking corporate actions, and doing it all at nearly zero cost would have been impossible for a retail investor. It’s like comparing a 1970s Formula 1 car to a 2025 F1 machine. The driver isn’t necessarily faster—the technology is. The modern car does things that were simply not achievable with the tools of the past. Indexing isn’t a hack. It’s a technology-enabled access point.
Post: Why would index investing be different?
Link to comment from November 16, 2025