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4 weeks ago | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
As most of you already know by now, as of May 20, 2025 there is a new, updated version of The Simple Path to Wealth available. Indeed, it has already reached #7 on the New York Times Best Sellers List. If you buy the book at Barnes & Noble or any local bookstore, you’ll automatically get the new edition. But, somewhat confusingly, the original is also still available on Amazon.
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1 month ago | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
I’ve been an investor in the stock market for 50 years. Here’s the one thing that will determine whether the market makes you wealthy or leaves you bleeding on the side of the road:What you do when the market drops. Market drops fall into three broad categories:Corrections, which are drops of ~10%Bear Markets, which are when the declines reach 20%Crashes, which are when the market drops 30% or more. Now the fact that each of these events has a name should tell you something.
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2 months ago | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
Let’s start with a couple pieces of exciting news, and then I’ll fill you in. First, there is a brand new edition of The Simple Path to Wealth coming to bookstores on May 20th. Second, my pal Pete Adeney, Mr. Money Mustache himself, and I will be doing a live zoom conversation, open to everyone who preorders the book. More on that below. I hope you’ll join!But, it almost didn’t happen.
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2 months ago | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
April 7, 2025Deja vu all over againA few short years ago my blog comment section and social media were blowing up. Panic was in the air. The comments were varied, but uniformly convinced this time was different. As a theme, they ran along these lines:“JL, I love your work and have been following The Simple Path with great success. But now the market is crashing and this time is surely different. This time it is a pandemic. This time economies around the world have shut down.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
Got a question? by JL Collins 1 Comment - Updated: January 7, 2025This one is going to be very brief. I’m putting together a FAQ. If you have a question you’ve always wanted to ask, drop it in the comments below. Keep in mind this is for a general FAQThanks! Read Next from JL
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
Since last Wednesday, depending on your political leanings, you have been celebrating or in mourning. Or maybe you greeted the news with indifference. Now, as the dust settles, you might be wondering what this all means for your portfolio. Love him or loathe him, Mr. Trump is a disruptive force and Mr. Market hates disruption. Back in November 2015 that was my analysis, and I was sorely tempted to move to cash. Instead, I stuck to my discipline and remained fully invested.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
September. Labor Day. Already. Ah well, it has been a great summer here at Kibanda. This was the year we conclusively decided not to tear it down and build new. If you’ve read the saga you know it was in pretty desperate shape when we bought it back in 2017 and the fallback was always to bring in the bulldozers. We didn’t, opting to fix it up and nurse it along. Then, about three years ago, we began seriously thinking about a new build.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
nasdaq.com | Erin Lowry |JL Collins |Cary L. Siegel |Thomas Stanley
There can be a lot of confusion and complexity surrounding money. Budgeting, saving, investing, and retirement planning are things to learn. Fortunately, more than enough great books can help you begin your journey to financial literacy. Here are twenty of the best books for learning about money. 1.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
due.com | JL Collins |Wade Pfau |Dan Buettner |David Brooks |John Rampton
Many people are intimidated by retirement planning. Like all major life transitions, there is always an element of uncertainty, even when you make plans. You can, however, gain valuable insight from reading books about retirement. After all, as the saying goes, “failing to plan is planning to fail.” With that said, here are 15 books that cover different aspects of retirement, from financial planning to finding happiness.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
jlcollinsnh.com | JL Collins |J. L. Collins
Lanju Photografie, UnsplashRecently a friend reached out asking for my take on concerns raised in this article:What Goes UpI hate these kind of requests, probably because every time this sort of hand wringing article appears, people want me to talk them down off the ledge. Ordinarily, I ignore these requests. Guess I’m bored fielding them and reading this stuff. There’s nothing new in them and, if you’ve read my work, you already know my take.
