Book Reviews
JL Collins – The Simple Path to Wealth – Review
The Simple Path to Wealth is JL Collins’s plan for getting rich slowly: stay out of debt, spend much less than you earn, put the rest into one broad…
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Midterm elections and the stock market: What 19 midterms since 1950 show
The US midterm elections were held on Tuesday, 3 November 2026. I looked at what the S&P 500 did after every midterm since 1950. Twelve months after…
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Best day to buy stocks: What 66 years of S&P 500 data show
The best day of the week to buy stocks depends on which decades you look at, and for a long-term investor it barely matters. I checked every trading…
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Dollar cost averaging vs lump sum: What 38 years of S&P 500 data show
Dollar cost averaging means investing a sum in equal parts over several months instead of all at once. I tested both on the S&P 500 with dividends…
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Sequence of returns risk: Why your retirement date matters
Sequence of returns risk is the danger that bad years come at the start of retirement, while you are taking money out. I ran it on real S&P 500 data…
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Buy the dip: What 38 years of S&P 500 data say
Buying the dip means keeping cash aside and investing it when the market falls. I tested it on the S&P 500 with dividends since 1989: $500 a month…