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In March of this year, Vanguard released a new line of Target Maturity Corporate Bond ETFs. (Prospectus here.) The line currently consists of Vanguard Target Maturity 2027 Corporate Bond ETF (VBCA) through Vanguard Target Maturity 2036 Corporate Bond ...

Over all the years I've been writing this blog, Ben Carlson is among the top few writers I've linked to most often (Jim Dahle and Christine Benz are probably the competitors). Ben recently released a new book, which I just finished reading: Risk and ...

I recently had an email exchange with an Oblivious Investor reader about the (new for 2026) deduction of $1,000 ($2,000 if married filing jointly) for charitable contributions, for people who don't itemize. The question was whether the deduction ...

A Planet Money podcast episode last week directed me to a paper released earlier this year: Dementia and Long-run Trajectories in Household Finances. The authors explain their findings in pretty plain English, so I'm just going to quote their work:

"Have your parents been scammed yet?" Jim Dahle asked me, in a brief one-on-one conversation at the recent White Coat Investor Conference. The implication, of course, is that it's a matter of when it happens rather than whether it happens. At the ...