• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Chris Reining

Become financially independent

  • About Chris
  • Articles
  • Ask Chris
  • Projects
  • Contact
  • Saving More
  • Earning More
  • Investing to Build Wealth
  • Become Financially Independent
  • Invest to build wealth

Investing the Old-Fashioned Way with Warren Buffett

In 2007 I bought shares of Berkshire Hathaway, and so I’ve read every shareholder letter from Warren Buffett, watched the documentary, read the biography. Even made it a point to vacuum up every little scrap of wisdom from sidekick Charlie Munger.

It makes sense then, that you’d attend the annual Berkshire shareholder meeting. Every May thousands of people flock to Omaha, Nebraska, for this...

KEEP READING

By Chris Reining / 4 Comments

  • Invest to build wealth

Here’s Why the Stock Market Goes up Every Year

Ralph Wanger was founding manager of the Acorn Fund. At the helm between 1970 and 2003 he averaged returns of 16% versus 12% for the S&P 500. He wasn’t only a great investor, but a witty writer.

He once said the stock market was like a man walking his dog in New York City. The walk was always the same: start at Columbus Circle, stroll through Central Park, and end at the Metropolitan Museum...

KEEP READING

By Chris Reining / 1 Comment

  • Invest to build wealth

The Enormous Price You Pay for Having an Emergency Fund

Everyone knows you’re supposed to have an emergency fund. You get laid off, break an arm, the refrigerator quits. These things happen, sometimes all at the same time, and so personal finance experts recommend having up to six months living expenses set aside in cash.

But isn’t this advice only for people grinding it out, working and living paycheck to paycheck? In that situation having cash tucked away is smart. There’s no need to...

KEEP READING

By Chris Reining / 0 Comments

  • Invest to build wealth

The One Question Successful Investors Always Ask Themselves

Imagine taking a six-hour flight from New York to Los Angeles, but right before taking off you learn the airline has a new policy: Reclining your seat is negotiable.

This poses two questions: First, how much are you (the recliner) willing to pay the person behind you (the reclinee) in order to push your seat back four inches? Second, what does your legroom cost the reclinee?

Researchers ran an experiment and found...

KEEP READING

By Chris Reining / 3 Comments

  • Invest to build wealth

30 Hard-Learned Money and Life Lessons

I’m turning 40 this month, which got me thinking: why not share how to make the most of your 30s.

What qualifies me to do this? I spent most of my younger years horsing around, focusing on the wrong things. And isn’t that the very worst thing about a life, wasting it?

Today, sitting here typing this, what I’m most proud of is the life I’ve created. It took years to...

KEEP READING

By Chris Reining / 8 Comments

  • « Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • …
  • Page 8
  • Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

  • Free Investing Guide

    Start having your
    money work for you

    Free Tools
    Bundle

Most Popular

  • 3 Simple Portfolios: How Investing like a Minimalist Can Maximize Your Results
  • To Be Rich Be Unpopular
  • This Is How Much You Really Need to Be Financially Independent
  • Quit Saving Your Money
  • Becoming a Millionaire Is a Letdown

Archives

Footer

Let’s Get You Started!

Have your money work for you with FREE access to my investing guide.

  • About Chris
  • Articles
  • Ask Chris
  • Projects
  • Contact
CONTACT ME [at]
chris@chrisreining.com
search icon

Copyright © 2019 Chris Reining PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE
This site participates in affiliate programs. In other words, if you buy something like a book on Amazon from a link on here I get a tiny percentage of its price. That helps offset what it takes to maintain this site, and is much appreciated.