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What purpose does FNBGX serve in your portfolio? Treasury bond indexes have historically served as an effective counterweight to market dips, corrections, and crashes. On the other hand, if interest rates go up at all or the market continues rallying, those bonds could go lower. FNBGX is down 3% for...

Once again I might clarify that I’m a Millennial that despises gambling...walking through a casino actually irritates me. 90%Vtsax/Vfiax 10%vbtlx is tolerable to me. I totally see how cities like Las Vegas have become so large. This is oddly apparent even on bogleheads. The path to FI is clear for ...

Middle-aged millennial checking in. I am a recent Boglehead convert and have the vast majority of my portfolio dedicated to low-fee stock market index funds (90/10 domestic/international) as a result, with a 10% allocation to bonds for offsetting risk (so I won't feel completely screwed when gravity...

Seeds grow in soil, so plant them.

As a recent convert to the BH philosophy, this thread and the people who've shared their philosophy of stability are a balm for the soul.

Another cost-cutting maneuver: don't have it installed on an upper floor if you can avoid it. Every plumber I spoke to when my own heater was installed offered to install it in the attic and reassured me it would never leak. Meanwhile, I have at least three coworkers who went the upstairs water heat...

I was sitting on some minor positions in the top three cryptos from a while ago (BTC, ETH, LTC) and got out tonight after seeing enough dropoffs. Not huge gains by any stretch, but I don't want to stress over steep turns so often. If Ethereum drops low enough I might jump back in just because it see...

Once she's a little older, perhaps 8 or 9, make her the human calculator for grocery trips. Every aisle, ask her what the total is. This exercise will teach her to add on the fly (as well as backtrack and correct herself in her head) as well as tighten her attention span, since she has to hold the r...

I distinctly remember my grandfather hammering financial lessons into me and my cousins throughout our childhoods. He would try to impress upon us the value of compound investing by showing us various charts demonstrating the value of compound interest. The only problem? We were kids and had nowhere...