The Monday Read

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Hope everyone is safe out there. The typhoon should just about clear Sendai by the time the newsletter goes out.

Here are this week’s links:

  1. ​Which is better? Paying Off the Mortgage vs Investing the Difference.
  2. A dose of reality: long-term news.
  3. A public servant millionaire interview.
  4. People who invest get more money: The New Gilded Age?
  5. Shiller speaks: Are US stock market highs justified, or is there a bubble?
  6. Our manshon is too close to sea level: America’s era of climate mass migration is here.
  7. The voice of experience: What we own and why we own it: 2018.
  8. Who’s afraid of the big, bad EM? Would You Run Towards Emerging Market Blood?
  9. Hmm: Absolute Success is Luck. Relative Success is Hard Work.
  10. If you don’t have one, fix that: It’s an emergency (fund)!
  11. ​Some good quotes this time: what we’re reading.
  12. It’s the spending, stupid: FIRE in the news, liar, liar, pants on FIRE.
  13. ​A hardworking millionaire interview.
  14. ​Advice for young (and not so young) people: the starting out blueprint.
  15. A frugal, deliberate life: My Non-Financial Life.
  16. Which one are you, boy? Different kinds of smart.
  17. Setting limits helps you achieve: do things you can sustain.
  18. I’m overweight EM: The Curious Case for Emerging Markets.
  19. Really important concept: the cash flow engine.
  20. The OECD account information sharing is starting (Japanese): 富裕層などの海外口座情報を共有 日本と84の国・地域が連携.
  21. I still need to work on this: Top Ten Efficiency Secrets of The White Coat Investor.
  22. A wonderful conversation with Charlie Munger.

What do you think? Anything good in there? I enjoyed #5, #6, and #14.

And here are the books I am reading/have read/plan to read soon:

  • Death’s End (book three in the Chinese SF trilogy I’ve been reading) -this is long but really good. I’ve very close to finishing it now. It’s wonderfully Chinese, in that the literary style and how the characters react feels really different.
  • The Silkworm (J.K.Rowling’s second detective story under a pen name). I enjoyed the first one, and it seems she’s written four now! We’ll see how this one is.