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Well, it’s a new year, and while 2025 was apparently a great year for the stock market, it ended its last week on a slump. Being up 16% for the year obviously makes up for it, but overall, it hasn’t been a very relaxing year with the stock market, nor one in general, so it…
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Another European summer vacation in the books, where our investments grew more than we spent in the time we were away. This has happened in 2023, 2024, and now 2025, though we notably did not travel in 2022, when it may have been a different story. (Actually, looking at the graph of the S&P500 during…
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As I write this, we are halfway through the month of March. Our investments are down $28,105.19 since the start of the month, despite contributing $4,902. This is not the first time I’ve watched our account balances go down, and in fact not even the worst two week stretch I’ve watched in recent history, but…