The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has put out alerts about an increase in property title fraud: Protect Your Property from Illegal Sales Through Parcel Owner Impersonation FBI Boston Warns Quit Claim Deed Fraud is on the Rise Basically, criminals will forge some documents and pretend to be you online, and then either hire […]
A Trump Account (aka 530A Account, or 530 IRA) is a new type of retirement investment account for children. They offer tax-deferred growth, but you don’t get a tax break upon contribution. Funds generally cannot be withdrawn until the child reaches age 18, whereupon it converts into a traditional IRA with penalties on most withdrawals […]
Vanguard has been a big part of building my net worth, and I’m always watching to see if they are keeping the culture. Barron’s last week ran the article Vanguard Conquered the ETF World. Where It’s Aiming Next, but it’s probably behind a paywall. Well, the three main areas are high-yield cash savings accounts, financial […]
Graduation season is here, and here is the 2026 Commencement Speech for George Mason Law School by Luke Nichols, who is a practicing attorney but probably best known as the owner of the popular YouTube Channel Outdoor Boys which includes a lot wilderness hunting, fishing, and bushcraft (“survivalist”) content. I’m a follower of his channel […]
The NY Times recently published the article “Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch” (gift link), where a woman logs into her Fidelity account one day and finds that her accounts are missing online and Fidelity dismisses her as crazy: Fidelity Investments sent messages alerting her that her phone number and email address […]
