Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at what to do if you really need to trade.
Quote of the Day
"Financial planning isn’t so much a tool as it is a tool belt filled with a variety of tools used for solving multiple goals."
(Douglas Boneparth)
Mortgages
- 30-year home mortgage rates are sitting around 3.0%. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- It may be time to refinance your mortgage. (wsj.com)
- Redirect your fear into a more productive option like refinancing your mortgage. (abnormalreturns.com)
Scarcity mindset
- Seth Godin, "Often, we choose to be selfish because we feel insufficiency." (seths.blog)
- How a scarcity mindset affects how you think about your life. (thesimpledollar.com)
Investing
- No one really knows what the stock market is going to do, so stop trying to predict it. (fortune.com)
- Volatility isn't risk, but it can make a mess of things. (humbledollar.com)
Personal finance
- If you were doing all the right stuff before coronavirus hit, you don't need a big course correction. (mrmoneymustache.com)
- How accurate is "Marriage Story" in reflecting divorce? Pretty accurate. (psiloveyou.xyz)
- How food delivery apps put the hurt on your budget. (nytimes.com)
- Some online tools to help you get a better handle on your cost of driving. (getrichslowly.org)
- How RIP Medical Debt erases people's medical debt for pennies on the dollar. (vice.com)
- Five books on personal finance worth reading including Ramit Sethi's "I Will Teach You to Be Rich." (artofmanliness.com)