Where were you ten years ago today? Funnily enough, I know where I was - logged into WordPress for the first time, drafting a blog post about HSA arbitrage. That's right: 10 years ago today on May 24, 2009 DQYDJ published our very first post. The More Things Change... For the last ten years we've […]
Personal Capital is an online platform offering net worth and spending tracking, financial advice, and personal wealth management. This Personal Capital review will cover all the important parts of using the service in 2019 - from tracking to projecting your retirement success. Personal Capital's primary benefits include a detailed view of your portfolio's performance versus […]
Every year, "conveniently" timed with tax season, we remember that DQYDJ is ostensibly a personal finance site. Let's turn tax-frowns upside down with a post on asset allocation here in in April, 2019. Why bother? It comes back to skin in the game – a phrase recently repopularized by Nassim Taleb. In his book with […]
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Every year, the "blessing" of tax season provides us the "convenient" opportunity to examine our personal financial performance in the previous year. And what is the most important marker of financial performance? I'm glad you asked - I'd argue it's your savings rate. The input to this system is, of course, income. From income, there […]
The yield curve has been in some type of inversion since December of 2018. In a yield curve inversion, longer dated securities yield less than short term debt. This turns risk on its head - in a well functioning debt market, investors should be paid more to lock up money for a longer time. While […]
Editor: Welcome Bryan back to DQYDJ for his first post in... a long time. Maybe we can convince him to write more often? Take it away... It's not easy finding ways to squeeze every penny when we're so engrossed in constant necessary daily activities. We're no amateurs. We're the ones that check our budgets, check […]
We're so proud to announce the latest incarnation of Don't Quit Your Day Job.... By the time you read these words, our new design has been up for more than 24 hours and served content to over 10,000 people. Executive Summary: Changes on DQYDJ The stylistic changes on the DQYDJ front end are the most […]
In a recent post we looked at the relationship between recessions and bear markets. In this post we'll take it a step further and look at the relationship between the Federal Funds Target Rate and bear markets. Specifically, we'll look at hiking cycles (as the Federal Reserve was in December 2018) versus S&P 500 bear […]
In our last post on the yield curve inverting we discussed differences between a few terms. Specifically, the 5 Year Treasury and the 3 Year and 2 Year Treasury have inverted in recent days. As of 12/07, the 1 year threatens to join the inversion party; 5s1s now sit at a mere .02% difference: 5s3s, […]
