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Investing Fundamentals: A Simple Guide for Beginners
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 4/24/2026
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Financial Tension
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Time to Be Fearful
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 3/27/2026
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What, Me Worry?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 3/12/2026
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It’s Never Too Late
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 2/26/2026
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How Far Back Would a 40% Drop Take Us?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 2/20/2026
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Should You Stop Contributing To Your IRA?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 2/9/2026
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Sleeves or Buckets?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 2/3/2026
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Average vs. Humble Average
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 12/28/2025
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You DRIP?
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 12/8/2025
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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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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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AUTHOR: William Housley on 9/18/2025
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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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Dividend Days
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“A Complex Portfolio, a Modest Account”
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AUTHOR: William Housley on 6/13/2025
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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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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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AUTHOR: William Housley on 8/14/2024
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Post: Investing Fundamentals: A Simple Guide for Beginners
Link to comment from April 25, 2026
A lot of people will be in deep trouble when they get as old as you and I. How do you build a retirement without?
Post: Investing Fundamentals: A Simple Guide for Beginners
Link to comment from April 24, 2026
Curry is smart… he will figure out how to invest.
Post: Financial Tension
Link to comment from April 21, 2026
It is a different kind of investment. 🙂
Post: Financial Tension
Link to comment from April 20, 2026
It is likely none of us on Humble Dollar have enormous wealth 🤔 Some, likely many, like you do what we can.
Post: Financial Tension
Link to comment from April 18, 2026
It is an understandable regret
Post: Financial Tension
Link to comment from April 18, 2026
I almost included Rockefeller Sr. I will need to pick up that book. Thanks.
Post: Financial Tension
Link to comment from April 18, 2026
Andrew, this is a powerful reflection—thank you for sharing it. It seems to me there are at least two different lessons someone could take from experiences like yours. One is: I don’t need to make much to live in solidarity with the poor. That can lead to a simpler, more restrained life—and there’s something honorable in that. But I’ve come to believe there’s another path that may carry even greater responsibility: to earn as much as one is able, in order to give as much as possible. Making more doesn’t have to mean living more lavishly. It can mean expanding your capacity to be generous. In that sense, income becomes less about personal consumption and more about stewardship. Seeing real need doesn’t just redefine “enough”—it can also redefine what we’re responsible for. Perhaps the goal isn’t choosing between simplicity and abundance, but holding both together: living simply enough to stay grounded, while earning purposefully enough to give meaningfully.
Post: What Bangladesh Taught Me About Enough
Link to comment from April 16, 2026
Let’s reverse the question you asked at the end: “Do you ever look back at what you spent on yourself and wonder what your life would have been like had you made a different decision?” Having spent short periods of time living among the poorest of the poor, I’ve noticed something striking: they don’t tend to ask the question your intriguing contribution raises. Their framework is different. Children are not primarily viewed through a financial lens—as costs, trade-offs, or constraints on optionality—but as part of the fabric of life itself. Even in scarcity, they are often seen as a source of meaning, identity, and, at times, even hope. That doesn’t invalidate your experience or your decision—it reflects a different set of priorities shaped by different circumstances. But it does suggest that the financial calculus, while real and important, may not be the only—or even the primary—measure by which a life is ultimately evaluated.
Post: Financial regrets about parenthood?
Link to comment from April 12, 2026
We all have an expiration date. My aim is to extend mine—and help extend others’. I exercise daily, read and write to stay sharp, and regularly donate blood and platelets to give life to others. KISS—keeping it simple.
Post: Getting Older
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