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It's finally here--Your Book Recommendations! I'll be adding to the list as more recommendations have come in over the past week. I'll also be adding my recommendations to the list soon.

3 Things

1. On the Inevitability of an AI Bubble (A Wealth of Common Sense)
2. How Much Should Retirees Worry About Inflation? (Morningstar)
3. Beyond Sequence of Returns: The Four Risks to Retirement Security (Journal of Financial Planning)

My Videos & Articles

• Stock Market Crash: How Worried Should You Really Be? (FQF) (YouTube)
• Why VTI Will Own SpaceX Long Before the S&P 500 Does (YouTube)
• SpaceX Denied Fast Entry Into the S&P 500 Index (YouTube)

ICYMI

• The Mathematical Reason Most People Never "Make It" (The Write Path)
• Vanguard's New Target Maturity Corporate Bond ETFs (Oblivious Investor)
• On The Importance of Desperate Customers (Tim Ferriss)
• Money and Me (HumbleDollar)
• The Dangerous Allure of "Dying with Zero" (Jordan Grumet)
• Being Useful is More Attractive Than Being Rich (Of Dollars And Data)
• Your life matters (even if you're not famous) (Darius Foroux)
• The Hidden History of BPC-157, a Favorite MAHA Peptide (STAT)
• Listening Is the Silencing of the Mind (More To That)
• Choosing to Stay Human (One Useful Thing)
• Real artists… (Seth's Blog)
• The Pope vs. Silicon Valley (Cal Newport)
• When You Feel Behind, Your Mind Is Probably Lying (A Year of Mental Health)
• Q-Day (Justin Drake)
• The new bibliomaniacs (Engelsberg Ideas)
• Do Things You'll Love Yourself For (Raptitude)

What I'm Reading, Listening To, Watching, and Thinking About

• ​The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson — It turns out that Lady Bird was a wonderful person, and LBJ mistreated her in so many ways.
• ​Theo of Golden — So far it's delightful.

Tools I'm Using From Partners

• Monarch Money: Get 50% off the First Year of Monarch Money Core Plan--Discount Code: ROB50​
• ​Boldin: I use this tool for our retirement planning. ProjectionLab is also a great financial planning tool and is offering a 10% Discount Code RBERGER-10.
• ​Kubera: My choice to track investments and net worth. They offer a 14-day free trial. An excellent free alternative is Empower.

Resources From Partners

• Get free Medicare guidance from Chapter (410) 220-5494
• For a limited time, try the AI-powered budgeting app Origin for just $1 the first year.
• You can see a list of all of my Youtube videos here.
• You can see a list of the budgeting, investing and retirement planning tools I use here.
• You can view past issues of the newsletter here.
• ​DIYRetirement Subreddit​

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Best,
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Rob Berger
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