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More on Roth conversions

On May 10th, I’ll be presenting my work on Roth conversions at Financialexpertsnetwork.com. I’ll be working through one of my spreadsheets during the presentation. It can be downloaded here: http://www.edwardfmcquarrie.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Roth-conversion-worksheet-for-financial-experts-webinar.xlsx A similar worksheet was the focus of this Bogleheads forum: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=358688. In that forum I work through quite a number…

Roth Conversions

I’ve written a paper titled, “When and for Whom Are Roth Conversions Most Beneficial?”  It can be downloaded from ssrn.com here. [update 10/5/2021: I have started to revise this paper.  A new spreadsheet is available for download here ] An example of the spreadsheets I used to explore conversion outcomes in…

How to keep up with ancient DNA research—or any other hot scientific topic of personal interest

The presumption of this post is that you are a well-educated person, but an amateur in the scientific field of interest. That would be me in the case of ancient DNA, and what it tells me about my ancestors narrowly, and human history generally. I’ll assume you have read David…

I lost 26 pounds

… now does that sound like a scam headline or what?  All it needs is the obligatory, “using this one weird trick.” But I did not use any trick.  I followed a procedure that required some discipline. And I may have benefited from a specific physiology consequent to my ethnicity.…