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2020

July 27 Seeing Growth When Dividend Investing (Investing)
July 20 How Dividends Grow Your Wealth (Investing)
July 13 Why Many Decades? (Investing)
July 6 How Much Does It Cost To Get Started With Dividend Investing? (Investing)
June 29 Avoiding Retirement Income Panic (Investing, Money, Retirement)
June 22 Financial Success Is Possible (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
June 15 This Is Not An Early Retirement Blog (Retirement)
June 8 Quo Vadis, America? (Uncategorized)
June 1 Another New World for Retirees: The Tax Burden (Money)
May 25 Virus Kills More Than 100,000 in the U.S., Some Still Call It A Hoax (Attitude)
May 18 The Joy of Using Transfer Agents Instead Of Brokers (Investing)
May 11 Let’s Think About Something Else, OK? (Attitude)
May 4 Marked For Life (Attitude, Money)
April 27 Did I Risk My Life To Go Shopping? (Attitude)
April 20 Don’t Run Out Of The Store (Attitude, Investing, Money)
April 13 Is It Time To Talk About Something Else? (Attitude)
April 6 A Long Road Ahead (Attitude, Garden)
March 30 Is There Blood In The Streets Yet? (Investing)
March 23 Why I Consider Buying In A Declining Market Can Often Be A Good Thing (Uncategorized)
March 16 Boom, Crash, Boom, Crash, Boom, Crash, Crash (Investing)
March 9 Do We Stay The Course When It Looks Like Everything Is Going To Hell? (Attitude, Investing, Money)
March 2 The Market is Up, The Market is Down (Attitude, Investing, Money)
February 24 Less than half a cent per ounce difference. Would it matter to you? (Money)
February 17 When People Fear Retirement (Attitude, Retirement)
February 10 Why It Pays To Check Every Medical Bill (Money)
February 3 When You Don’t Spend $1.00, You Save More Than $1.00 (Money, Savings)
January 27 What Are Savings For? (Savings)
January 20 The Four Self-Evident Truths (Attitude)
January 13 Saving Even Fifty Cents Is Worth The Effort! (Money, Savings)
January 6 Time To Think About RMDs! (Money, Retirement, RMD)

2019

December 30 Almost No One Cares About Money (Attitude, Money, Savings)
December 23 Is Less More? Is No Yes? (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
December 16 Confirmed: Corporate Insiders Exploit Share Buybacks (Money, Work)
December 9 Everyone Starts At The Beginning (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
December 2 Governments are Fearsome Things; Governments are Fearful Things (Attitude)
November 25 Two Years Now. apenvironmentalscience.com is Two Years Old. (Retirement)
November 18 What Is The Purpose of Money? (Money)
November 11 Why I Write About Attitude And Finances (Attitude, Money)
November 4 Prepare for Retirement: Pay Off The Mortgage (Attitude, Money, Retirement)
October 28 Simple But Not Easy (Attitude, Money)
October 21 Reduce Expenses To Eliminate Junk (Attitude, Money)
October 14 Desire Hath No Rest (Attitude, Money)
October 7 Eudemonia! Nurture Your Life First, Then Your Portfolio (Attitude, Investing, Money)
September 30 The National Debt Is Going To Eat You Alive (Attitude, Money)
September 23 Volatility, Thy Name Is Capitalism (Attitude, Investing, Money)
September 16 Why I Still Don’t Use Money Management Sites (Attitude, Money)
September 9 Your Future Has Already Arrived. Are You Ready? (Attitude, Investing)
September 2 Frugality Gives You A Secret Power (Attitude, Investing)
August 26 A Retiree Looks At His 21st Birthday (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
August 19 Keep Your RMDs In Mind (Required Minimum Distribution, Retirement, RMD)
August 12 Is Saving Thirty-Two Cents Worth The Effort? (Money, Savings)
August 5 Why Bother To Save Money (Investing, Money)
July 29 Some Things Are More Expensive in Retirement (Money, Retirement)
July 22 What To Think Of Sky-High PE Ratios (Investing)
July 15 Guest Post by Robert Reich: “America’s Biggest Economic Problem Isn’t China” (Attitude, Work)
July 8 My 99th Birthday (Attitude)
July 1 Is The State of Real Estate Trusts A Harbinger of Business Conditions? (Investing)
June 24 How Can You Start To Change? (Attitude)
June 17 Governments Run On Deficits and Debt. Should You? (Attitude, Money)
June 10 Who Has The Latest Pricing Data? (Investing, Money)
June 3 To Achieve Freedom, You Must Start Small (Attitude, Money)
May 27 The Decline and Fall of YouTube (Attitude)
May 22 What Is Your Crossover Point? (Money, Retirement)
May 20 It Will Fluctuate (Investing, Money)
May 13 Join the FIRO Movement! (?) (Attitude, Money, Retirement)
May 6 I’m Retired But My Money Isn’t (Investing, Money, Not Working, Retirement, Savings)
April 29 Beware Dividend Payout Ratio Over 100% (Investing)
April 22 How To Avoid Retirement Panic (Attitude, Retirement)
April 15 Yes, Even Ethernet Cables Can Go Bad! (Attitude)
April 8 Should Retirees Continue To Invest? (Attitude, Investing, Money, Retirement, Social Security)
April 1 Can We See Things As They Are? (Attitude)
March 25 Don’t Only Save in Tax Deferred Accounts (Attitude, Money, Required Minimum Distribution, RMD)
March 18 Dividends Are Not Always a Good Thing. Sometimes They Are Risky. (Investing, Money)
March 11 Frugality Is A Many-Splendored Thing (Attitude, Money)
March 4 Insanely Small Savings (Attitude, Money, Savings)
February 25 What Is It Designed For? (Attitude)
February 18 Hey Los Angeles, What’s With the “The”? (Attitude)
February 11 Retiring Cured My Anxiety Eating (Attitude, Retirement)
February 4 Do Not Be Bored, Do Not Be Discouraged (Attitude, Not Working, Retirement, Work)
January 28 I Must Remember To Not Rob A Bank Today (Attitude)
January 21 RMD Recommendation Change (Investing, Money, Not Working, Required Minimum Distribution, Retirement)
January 14 Four Fun Things (Attitude)
January 7 An End Is A Beginning So Don’t Wait (Attitude)

2018

December 31 Always the Casino, Sometimes the Roller Coaster (Investing, Money)
December 24 Is It Reasonable To Seek A Personal Competitive Advantage? (Attitude)
December 17 Who Owns The Land When Sea Levels Rise? (Uncategorized)
December 10 Knowing One’s Limits: Low Bridge! (Attitude)
December 3 Less Now, More Later (Attitude)
November 26 Preparing For Climate Change and Global Warming (Uncategorized)
November 19 One Year! (Attitude, Investing, Money, Not Working, Required Minimum Distribution, Retirement, RMD, Social Security, Work)
November 12 It’s Always Someone Else’s Fault (Attitude)
November 5 Small Things That Help (Attitude, Uncategorized)
October 29 How Much Time Is Needed To Deal With Money? (Checking accounts, Investing, Money, Savings)
October 22 Why I Do Not Pay For Television (Attitude)
October 15 Transfer Agents Lose Their Luster (Investing, Money)
October 8 Is Investing a Zero Sum Game? (Attitude, Investing, Money)
October 1 Can You Help This World? (Attitude, Money)
September 24 How To Do Money (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
September 17 My Trees Play CDs. Do Yours? (Garden)
September 10 The Roller Coaster of Emotions (Attitude)
September 3 Fear Of Retirement (Attitude, Not Working, Retirement)
August 27 If You Are In Your Twenties, Do Not Save For Retirement (Attitude, Investing, Money, Retirement, Savings)
August 20 I Gotta Get Me One Of Those (Attitude)
August 13 A Bowl Of Oatmeal and a Blue Shirt (Attitude)
August 6 How To Find the Past and Future In The Present (Attitude)
August 1 Tariff Trade Wars May Cause Domestic Price Changes (Money)
July 30 Is Frugality Only for the Rich? (Attitude, Money)
July 23 Money Is A Tool, Don’t Hurt Yourself (Attitude, Money)
July 16 Financial Independence Is Not The Real Goal (Attitude)
July 9 Why do humans feel threatened by what others believe? (Attitude)
July 2 How to Avoid Being Trapped in Declining Industries when Dividend Investing (Attitude, Investing)
June 29 Being Retired Is Like Marriage, It Is An Acquired Taste (Attitude, Retirement)
June 25 Why Do I Care About My Finances (Attitude)
June 21 Tax Consequences of Brexit for U.S. Investors (Investing, Money)
June 18 Focus on Small Steps or Large Steps? (Attitude, Money)
June 14 The Dividend Champions, Contenders, Challengers Lists To Be Continued (Money)
June 13 A U.K. Yahoo account was worth NINE TIMES that of one in the U.S. (Money)
June 11 David Fish (1949-2018) (Uncategorized)
June 4 Is Using Ride Sharing Cheaper Than Owning A Car? (Money)
May 28 Index Investing: Index of What? (Investing)
May 21 One Way To Buy Foreign Stock (Investing)
May 14 Get Off The Consumption Train! (Attitude, Money)
May 7 Fear And Overcoming It (Attitude)
April 30 A Financial Epiphany, Part II (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
April 27 Your Account Was Worth Seven Cents (Money)
April 23 A Financial Epiphany, Part I (Attitude, Investing, Money, Savings)
April 20 Where I am Interviewed by Alain Guillot (Attitude)
April 16 What Does “You Are The Product” Mean? (Attitude)
April 9 How I Stopped Worrying About Finding “The Next Job” (Attitude, Work)
April 4 A Bear Market Is Coming! (Attitude, Investing)
April 2 It is Better to Be Retired than Not Retired (Attitude, Not Working)
March 26 Avoiding Dividend Investing Discouragement (Attitude, Investing)
March 19 How U.S. Jobs and Factories Got To China (Attitude, Money)
March 12 Now and Later with Berkshire Hathaway (Investing)
March 5 The Downsides of Dividend Investing (Attitude, Investing)
March 1 Some Garden Firsts (Garden)
February 26 Can You Trust the Price-Earnings Ratio? (Investing, Money)
February 24 Whose Financial Information Do You Trust? (Investing)
February 22 First Signs Of Spring (Garden)
February 22 Why I Don’t Use Money Management / Tracking / Budgeting Websites (Money)
February 16 Who Causes Market Volatility? (Attitude, Investing)
February 12 Shareowner Online Sold (Investing)
February 11 Why Would Kim Jong Un want to eliminate his half brother Kim Jong Nam? (Attitude)
February 8 The Berlin Wall is So Over (Uncategorized)
February 7 And About This Weather… (Garden)
February 5 What Are Realistic Dividends? (Investing)
February 1 The Best Oatmeal. Ever. (Attitude)
January 29 Stock Buybacks and Insider Selling (Investing)
January 25 There is No Super, Or Very Little (Attitude)
January 21 Does The Private Automobile Have A Future? (Attitude, Work)
January 16 Retirement Calculators: Worth It? Helpful? Accurate? (Money, Retirement, Savings, Social Security)
January 12 Considering Living Abroad in Retirement? (Money, Not Working, Retirement, Social Security)
January 8 An Ethical Dilemma in Using Credit Cards? Is There Such a Thing? (Attitude, Credit Cards, Money)
January 2 Is It Time To Sell Oil Stocks? (Investing)

2017

December 28 The Mechanics of Money (Part 3): How I Invest (Investing, Money)
December 26 The Mechanics of Money (Part 2): How I Use Credit Cards (Credit Cards, Money)
December 21 The Mechanics of Money (Part 1): How I Use Checking and Savings Accounts (Checking accounts, Money, Savings)
December 19 The Law of Supply and Demand is a Lie (Money)
December 15 Do You Care what your Boss Thinks of You? What a Waste of Time! (Attitude, Work)
December 12 Are You Ready? Required Minimum Distribution Follies (Part 2) and The Safe Withdrawal Rate (Required Minimum Distribution, Retirement, RMD, Social Security)
December 7 Are You Ready? Required Minimum Distribution Follies (Part 1) (Required Minimum Distribution, RMD)
December 2 How To Apply For Social Security Benefits (Social Security)
November 26 Why Young People Ignore The “Saving For Retirement” Message. And What To Do About It. (Money, Retirement)
November 21 It is Critically Important to Make a Retirement Budget. But it is Utterly Useless. (Attitude, Money, Retirement)
November 16 It is impossible to save enough money for retirement. (Attitude, Investing, Money, Not Working, Retirement, Savings)
November 14 Did I Retire or Did I Just Stop Working? (Attitude, Money, Not Working, Retirement)

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