Before the Global Financial Crisis(GFC) of 2008-09, FIRE used to mean Financial Services, Insurance and Real Estate(FIRE) to define the US economy. FIRE sectors used to the hottest to be in. Then the FIRE burned out economy. Nowdays millennials have redefined FIRE to be Financial Independence Retire Early where people extreme measures to retire as early as 30 or 40 to escape the daily grind of crazy corporate life in the US.

• Stocks in Retirement: You Might Need More Than You Think (Schwab) and see Why retirees shouldn’t let stock market volatility scare them (Fidelity)
• Smoke and Mirrors: Earnings Flatter US Stock Valuations (Alliance Bernstein)
• Megatrends: The future of work (Vanguard)
• When Things Get Wild (Morgan Housel)
• What Bolsonaro’s win in Brazil means for investors (Blackrock Blog)
• Millennials on FIRE: The Frugality Movement That’s Gaining Steam(Schwab) and also see The New Retirement Plan: Save Almost Everything, Spend Virtually Nothing (WSJ)
• Why I Dread Returning to an American Public School,  NY Times
• Less can be more: How to improve financial reporting (Schroder’s)

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