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sirdoug007

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Retired at 50 recounts 4 big investing mistakes
« on: March 15, 2017, 12:41:18 PM »
I enjoyed this article about some missteps on this gentlemen's path to an early retirement.  Sounds like easy pitfalls to get into but good to see it didn't slow him down much.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/an-early-retiree-confesses-to-4-big-investing-mistakes-and-2-things-he-did-right-2017-03-14

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Re: Retired at 50 recounts 4 big investing mistakes
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2017, 12:59:15 PM »
The few comments I looked at are depressing, as expected, but the article was nice.

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Re: Retired at 50 recounts 4 big investing mistakes
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2017, 12:00:54 PM »
Darrow Kirkpatrick has a really good personal finance blog:

http://www.caniretireyet.com/

He's also written a guest post for MMM:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/10/06/guest-post-why-youll-become-busier-after-retirement/