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Over all the years I’ve been writing this blog, Ben Carlson is among the top few writers I’ve linked to most often (Jim Dahle and Christine Benz are probably the competitors).
Ben recently released a new book, which I just finished reading: Risk and Rewa...
I recently had an email exchange with an Oblivious Investor reader about the (new for 2026) deduction of $1,000 ($2,000 if married filing jointly) for charitable contributions, for people who don’t itemize. The question was whether the deduction reduces adjusted gross income (AGI) or not.
The short answer is that, no, it does not reduce adjusted gross income.<...
A Planet Money podcast episode last week directed me to a paper released earlier this year: Dementia and Long-run Trajectories in Household Finances. The authors explain their findings in pretty plain English, so I’m just going to quote their work:
“Our results point to impaired financial decision-making beginning about six years prior to clinically r...
“Have your parents been scammed yet?” Jim Dahle asked me, in a brief one-on-one conversation at the recent White Coat Investor Conference.
The implication, of course, is that it’s a matter of when it happens rather than whether it happens.
At the conference, three other attendees happened to share stories with me of their parents being scammed....