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2026 5

  1. The Power of Self-Cleansing
  2. Yes, you can rent with kids!
  3. JL Goes International, and to ETFs…… Oh my!
  4. Some Thoughts on Spending
  5. My conversation on DOAC, the 2nd biggest podcast in the world

2025 6

  1. Win a personally autographed copy of the revised edition of The Simple Path to Wealth
  2. How to make sure you get the right version of The Simple Path to Wealth
  3. The one thing that will determine whether the market makes you wealthy or leaves you bleeding on the side of the road
  4. A New Edition of The Simple Path to Wealth
  5. Deja vu all over again
  6. Got a question?

2024 3

  1. President Trump and the future of stock returns
  2. Kibanda Repairs & Summer Reading
  3. Are Index Funds a Bubble?

2023 13

  1. 41 Intriguing Quotes about Family, Endgame & The Little Girl Who Wouldn’t Listen from Pathfinders
  2. 28 Intriguing Quotes about Investing, F-You Money & Staying the Course from Pathfinders
  3. 24 Intriguing Quotes from Pathfinders
  4. 32 Things to Know about Following The Simple Path to Wealth
  5. Is The Simple Path to Wealth outdated??!!
  6. Inside Pathfinders’ Letter to Contributors
  7. 10 Reasons People Invest in Hedge Funds
  8. Chase Sapphire Preferred Review: The Best Card for Travel Rewards
  9. Things important, and unimportant
  10. Develop Your Skills and Talents
  11. When Your Country Becomes a Global Outcast
  12. Staying the Course in War-Time
  13. Pathfinders update from Hh

2022 12

  1. A New Chapter for Chautauqua
  2. Season’s Greetings!!
  3. Fun with numbers: Historic Stock Market Returns
  4. Let’s talk about what’s up with Bonds, and what ever else you’d like to ask me
  5. The Price of Security
  6. Case Study #17: Buying into the market right before a Bear
  7. Case Study #16: Helping dad with an inheritance
  8. Just inked a contract for my next book, and I want you to be a part of it!
  9. The Dinky Diner
  10. Chautauqua: A terrible business model
  11. Chautauqua is back for 2022!
  12. JLCollinsnh.com Enters New Era

2021 14

  1. Season’s Greetings!!
  2. The new book is out!
  3. Are bonds done?
  4. Guess what I just finally read for the first time…
  5. The negligence that led me to DIY investing
  6. Chainsaws and Credit Cards
  7. Part XXXVI: Estate Planning 101 — The Simple Path to an Estate Plan
  8. The Simple Path to a Lucrative Career
  9. Help Wanted: a new book
  10. The Top 9 (Bad) Arguments Against Bitcoin
  11. Collins on Crypto
  12. The Alfred Hitchcock Path to FI
  13. Time to sell?
  14. Mariah International: All that glitters…

2020 11

  1. Season’s Greetings!!
  2. How to give when you have a business
  3. Investing with Vanguard for Europeans: 2020 update
  4. Part XVII-B: ETF vs. Mutual Fund — What’s the Difference?
  5. Reviewing the comments on my post of April 1st
  6. Why I will no longer be writing this blog
  7. My move from VMMXX to VBTLX
  8. COVID-19: The unvarnished truth from Doc G.
  9. Chautauqua sits out 2020
  10. Taking advantage of Mr. Bear
  11. Mr. Bear, Podcasts, a good book and why I should be in 100% stocks

2019 11

  1. How to Make Buying a Car Not Suck
  2. The House Hacking Strategy
  3. New vs Used Cars: What does buying a new car really cost over the years?
  4. Why we bought a brand new car
  5. A Guided Meditation for When the Stock Market Is Dropping
  6. 7 Days in Heaven: or Why Slowing Down Will Get You There Sooner
  7. Quit Like a Millionaire
  8. Stocks — Part XXXV: Investing for Seven Generations
  9. Chautauqua 2019 – UK & Portugal – Tickets Now Available
  10. Mr. Bogle passes
  11. Financial Independence Case Study: How to Reach FI in Your 30s

2018 16

  1. Happy Holidays! and a bit on Mr. Market
  2. Truly Passive Real Estate Investing
  3. Car Talk: An update on Steve and looking at Leafs
  4. Chautauqua 2018 Greece: A week for the gods!
  5. On Twitter, gone for Chautauqua and dark on comments till November
  6. What we own and why we own it: 2018
  7. Tuft & Needle: Our Walnut Frame and Mint Mattress
  8. Kibanda Part 5: Pretty, and pretty much done
  9. Stocks–Part XXXIV: How to unload your unwanted stocks and funds
  10. Review: Empower Retirement Planner
  11. Stocks — Part XXXIII: Optimism
  12. Kibanda Part 4: Quicksand!
  13. My Talk at Google, Playing with FIRE and other Chautauqua connections
  14. Stocks — Part XXXII: Why you should not be in the stock market
  15. Chautauqua 2018: Mt. Olympus, Greece
  16. An International Portfolio from The Escape Artist

2017 15

  1. The Bond Experiment: Return to VBTLX
  2. How to Invest in Bitcoin like Benjamin Graham
  3. Kibanda Part 3: Running the numbers
  4. Sleeping Soundly Thru a Market Crash: The Wasting Asset Retirement Model
  5. Stocks — Part XXXI: Too hot. Too cold. Not pure enough.
  6. Kibanda, Part 2: Negotiating the deal
  7. Time Machine and the Future Returns for Stocks
  8. Kibanda: Mr. Anti-house buys his dream house
  9. Is there an interior designer in the house?
  10. The Simple Path to Wealth goes Audio!
  11. Life on the Beach
  12. Sell! Sell!! Sell!!! Sell?
  13. Vicki comes to Chautauqua: United Kingdom
  14. Chautauqua – Ecuador 2017 open for reservations
  15. Chautauqua – United Kingdom: August 2017

2016 22

  1. Season’s Greetings and other cool stuff
  2. Angel Investing, or Angel Philanthropy?
  3. Mr. Bogle and me
  4. Where did you learn about money?
  5. Buy Your Freedom; Rent the Rest
  6. So, what do you drive?
  7. Stocks — Part XXX: jlcollinsnh vs. Vanguard
  8. A visit to the Frugalwoods
  9. What the naysayers are missing
  10. Reviews of The Simple Path to Wealth; gone for summer
  11. The Simple Path to Wealth is now Published!
  12. A Peek into The Simple Path to Wealth
  13. It’s better in the wind. Still.
  14. Cool things to check out while I’m gone
  15. Stocks — Part XXIX: How to save money for college. Or not.
  16. Help Wanted: The Book
  17. F-You Money: John Goodman v. jlcollinsnh
  18. Q&A – V: The Women of Amphissa
  19. jlcollinsnh gets a new suit
  20. Chautauqua 2015 Reviews, 2016 registration open
  21. Case Study #15: The Scavenger Life — Freedom first, then Financial Independence
  22. 3rd Annual (2015) Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest results, and my forecast for 2016

2015 17

  1. Q&A – IV: Strawberry Patch
  2. Seasons Greetings! and other cool stuff
  3. Stockchoker: A look back at what your investment might have been
  4. Case Study #14: One Woman’s Journey to Financial Independence
  5. How to Live in a Hotel Full Time
  6. Mr. Market’s Wild Ride
  7. Gone for Summer, an important note on comments and random cool stuff that caught my eye
  8. Around the world with an Aussie Biker
  9. Case Study #13: The Power of Flexibility
  10. Stocks — Part VIII: The 401(k), 403(b), TSP, IRA & Roth Buckets
  11. Stocks—Part XXVIII: Debt – The Unacceptable Burden
  12. Chautauqua October 2015: Times Two!
  13. YNAB: Best Place to Work Ever?
  14. Case Study #12: How to Escape a Soul-Crushing Job Before You’re 70
  15. Case Study #11: John, a small business owner in transition
  16. Trish and Stan take an Intrepid Sailing Voyage
  17. 2014 Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest results, and my forecast for 2015

2014 28

  1. Diamonds and Happy Holidays!
  2. Micro-Lending with Kiva
  3. Chautauqua February 7-14, 2015: Escape from Winter
  4. Stocks — Part XXVII: Why I Don’t Like Dollar Cost Averaging
  5. Jack Bogle and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  6. Tuft & Needle: A better path to sleep
  7. Nightmare on Wall Street: Will the Blood Bath Continue?
  8. Help Wanted
  9. Chautauqua 2014: Lightning strikes again!
  10. Stocks — Part XXVI: Pulling the 4%
  11. Stocks—Part XXV: HSAs, More Than Just a Way to Pay Your Medical Bills.
  12. Stocks — Part XXIV: RMDs, the ugly surprise at the end of the tax-deferred rainbow
  13. Summer travels, writing, reading and other amusements
  14. Stocks—Part XXIII: Selecting Your Asset Allocation
  15. Stocks — Part XXII: Stepping Away from REITs
  16. Q&A III: Vamos
  17. Q&A II: Salamat
  18. Q&A I: Gaijin Shogun
  19. Top 10 posts
  20. Cafe No Se
  21. Chautauqua 2014 preview, closing up for travel and other random cool things that caught my eye of late.
  22. Case Study #10: Should Josiah buy his parents a house?
  23. Case Study #9: Lars — maximizing some good fortune and considering “dollar cost averaging”
  24. Case Study #8: Ron’s mother – she’s doin’ all right!
  25. roundup: Some random cool things
  26. Stocks — Part XXI: Investing with Vanguard for Europeans
  27. Case Study #7: What it looks like when everything financial goes wrong
  28. 1st Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest 2013 results, and my forecast for 2014

2013 40

  1. Closing up for the Holidays, see you in 2014
  2. Betterment: The Alternative to DIY Investing
  3. Case Study 6: Helping an ill and elderly parent
  4. Stocks—Part XX: Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders from a Mad Fientist
  5. Death, Taxes, Estate Plans, Probate and Prob8
  6. Case Study #5: Zero to 2.6 million in 25 years
  7. Financial Independence Case Study #4: Using the 4% Rule and Asset Allocations
  8. Case Study #3: Let’s get Tom to Latin America!
  9. The Stock Series gets its own page
  10. Case Study #2: Joe — off to a fast start!
  11. Chautauqua 2013: A Week of Dreams
  12. Closing up shop plus an opening at Chautauqua, my new podcast, phone, book and other random cool stuff
  13. They Will Kill You For Your Shoes!
  14. Stocks — Part VIII-b: Should you avoid your company’s 401k?
  15. Shilpan’s Seven Habits to Live More with Less
  16. Stocks — Part XIX: How to Think About Money
  17. Financial Independence Checklist for College Graduates (My path for my kid — the first 10 years)
  18. Why your house is a terrible investment
  19. Stocks — Part XVIII: Investing in a Raging Bull
  20. Dining with the Ghosts of Sarah Bernhardt and Alfons Mucha
  21. How we finally got the house sold
  22. Stocks — Part XVII: What if You Can’t Buy VTSAX? Or Even Vanguard?
  23. Greetings from Prague & a computer question
  24. Swimming with Tigers, a 2nd chance on the Chautauqua, a financial article gets it wrong and I’m off to Prague
  25. Storage, Moving and Movers
  26. Homeless, and a bit on the strategy of dollar cost averaging
  27. Wild Turkeys, Motorcycles, Dining Room Sets & Greed
  28. Roots v. Wings: Considering Home Ownership
  29. How about that stock market?!
  30. The Blog has New Clothes
  31. Meet Mr. Money Mustache, JD Roth, Cheryl Reed & me for a Chautauqua in Ecuador
  32. High School Poetry, Carnival, cool ads and random pictures that caught my eye
  33. Consignment Shops: Best business model ever?
  34. Cafes
  35. Stocks — Part XVI: Index Funds Are Really Just for Lazy People, Right?
  36. Social Security: How Secure and When to Take It
  37. Fighting giraffes, surreal landscapes, dancing with unicorns and restoring a Vanagon
  38. My plan for 2013
  39. VITA, income taxes and the IRS
  40. How to be a stock market guru and get on MSNBC

2012 52

  1. See you next year….until then: The Origin of Life, Life on Other Worlds, Mechanical Graveyards, Great Art, Alternative Lifestyles and Finding Freedom
  2. Stocks — Part XV: Target Retirement Funds, the Simplest Path to Wealth of All
  3. Stocks — Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
  4. Stocks Part XIV: Deflation, the Ugly Escort of Depressions
  5. Stocks — Part XIII: The 4% Rule, Withdrawal Rates and How Much Can I Spend Anyway?
  6. How I learned to stop worrying about the Fiscal Cliff and you can too.
  7. Rent v. owning: A couple of case studies in Ecuador
  8. So, what does a month in Ecuador cost anyway?
  9. See you in December….
  10. Meet me in Ecuador?
  11. The Podcast: You can hear me now.
  12. Stocks — Part XII: Bonds
  13. Stocks — Part XI: International Funds
  14. The Smoother Path to Wealth
  15. Case Study #I: Putting the Simple Path to Wealth into Action
  16. Tales of Bolivia: Calle de las Brujas
  17. Stocks — Part X: What if Vanguard Gets Nuked?
  18. Travels in South America: It was the best of times….
  19. Home again
  20. Yellow Fever, closing up shop for the summer and heading to Peru y Bolivia
  21. I could not have said it better myself…
  22. Stocks — Part IX: Why I Don’t Like Investment Advisors
  23. Happy Birthday, jlcollinsnh; and thanks for the gift Mr. MM!
  24. Stocks — Part VIII: The 401K, 403b, TSP, IRA & Roth Buckets
  25. Mr. Money Mustache
  26. Is College Worth the Cost?
  27. Stocks — Part VII: Can Everyone Really Retire a Millionaire?
  28. Stocks — Part VI: Portfolio Ideas to Build and Keep Your Wealth
  29. Stocks — Part V: Keeping It Simple, Considerations and Tools
  30. Stocks — Part IV: The Big Ugly Event, Deflation and a Bit on Inflation
  31. Stocks — Part III: Most People Lose Money in the Market
  32. Stocks — Part II: The Market Always Goes Up
  33. Stocks — Part I: There’s a Major Market Crash Coming!!!! and Dr. Lo Can’t Save You.
  34. You can eat my Vindaloo, mega lottery, Blondie, Noa, Israel Kamakawiwo ‘Ole, art, film and a ride on the Space Shuttle
  35. Where in the world are you?
  36. How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable, Part V: Sold! and the Taxman Cometh
  37. How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable, Part IV: I Become a Landlord
  38. How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable, Part III: The Battle Is Joined
  39. How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable, Part II: The Limits of the Law
  40. How I Lost Money in Real Estate Before It Was Fashionable, Part I: Impossibly Naive
  41. You, too, can be conned
  42. Armageddon and the value of practical skills
  43. Rent vs Owning Your Home: Opportunity Cost and Running Some Numbers
  44. What Poker, Basketball and Mike Whitaker taught me about Luck
  45. How to Give Like a Billionaire: Vanguard, Tax Deductions, & Nuns
  46. Go ahead, make my day
  47. Muk Finds Success in Tahiti
  48. Travels with “Esperando un Camino”
  49. Beanie Babies, Naked Barbie, American Pickers and Old Coots
  50. Selling the House and Adventures in Staging
  51. Index Investing, A Brief History of Vanguard, and the Case for Average Returns
  52. Magic Beans

2011 22

  1. Dividend Growth Investing
  2. The Mummy’s head, Particle Physics and “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”
  3. “It’s Better in the Wind” or why I ride a motorcycle
  4. Lazy Days and School Days
  5. The road to Zanzibar sometimes goes thru Ecuador…
  6. Johnny wins the lotto and heads to Paris
  7. Chainsaws, Elm Trees and paying for College
  8. Stuff I’ve failed at: the early years
  9. Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
  10. The. Worst. Used. Car. Ever.
  11. Top Ten reasons your future is so bright it hurts my eyes to look at it
  12. The Most Dangerous Words Your Customer Can Say
  13. How not to drown in The Sea of Assholes
  14. What We Own and Why We Own It
  15. The Ten Sales Commandments
  16. My ever so formal and oh so dry CV
  17. How I Failed My Daughter and a Simple Path to Wealth
  18. The Myth of Motivation
  19. Why You Need F-You Money
  20. My short attention span
  21. Why I Can’t Pick Winning Stocks, and You Can’t Either
  22. The Monk and the Minister