Passive Income for the Simple and Unadventurous

I suppose there are more kinds of passive investments, but my pedestrian mind can only think of four: real estate, authorship, pensions, and Wall Street. Here’s my take on all four: Real Estate When Mrs. Groovy and I relocated from Long Island to North Carolina in 2006 we dabbled a little bit in real estate. …

Am I Suffering from Cis-Gender White Male Abandonment Syndrome?

Apparently, Roe v. Wade is in peril. The Supreme Court has added a Mississippi abortion law to its docket this session, and it may use the legal kerfuffle that this law has engendered to overturn a woman’s Constitutional right to abort her developing fetus. Now, I’m not going to use this post to argue for …

How Not to Get Fooled Again

A couple of weeks ago, I had a post that lamented the rise of Woke Crow. Our woke overlords are hostile to the inalienable rights of white people and the people who disagree with wokeism (i.e., “fascists”, “white supremacists” of every shade, minorities who “sellout,” etc.), and our woke overlords have no problem with pernicious …

The “Stop It” Guide to Personal Finance: Part Five

Here is the final installment to our “Stop It” guide: Stop It Rule Five: Stop worrying that the stock market is rigged and invest the bulk of your savings. If you have a brokerage or retirement account with Fidelity you will see that Fidelity provides the annualized returns of a number of benchmarks so you …