Disclaimer: This is an experimental activity I’m doing with AI for my own purposes, nothing in this post should be used by anyone for anything other than entertainment and informational purposes particularly around potential capabilities of AI. DO NOT USE THESE PROBABILITIES FOR ANY INVESTMENT PURPOSES.| Get Rich Slick!
The headlines for the past couple of days on every news feed I get has something about Taylor Swift buying the rights to her early music back. Well congrats TS but the bad news is that I now spend most of my time listening to my own music I create on Suno.com. The days are numbered for performers if AI can do everything you do for much lower cost. | Get Rich Slick!
I’ve decided to compile a list of AI things that are taking over my life and my bank account. I’m also hugely disappointed in Apple, Google, and Microsoft for falling so far behind despite their AI “offerings.”| Get Rich Slick!
If you live long enough you’ll get through many decades of hype and fail especially in tech. I can easily remember the hype around bitcoin and block chain to name a couple. So when AI came around, I kinda rolled my eyes and wondered how long it would take for that hype to die down but I’m coming to terms with being wrong about AI.| Get Rich Slick!
I came across this article on Yahoo Finance entitled, “Boomers are leaving America to retire abroad in droves because the U.S. is just too expensive” and my immediate thought was will they ruin the whole point of moving overseas?| Get Rich Slick!
With the end of the calendar year comes lots of goodies and one of my favorite things to do is to see how much and where I spent my money. Today, I am going to cover how I spent $95,000 on two of my favorite travel cards and it ties into this post entitled, “How a Millionaire Uses Credit Cards.“| Get Rich Slick!
The US Treasury is auctioning off 30 year TIPS on Thursday. The expected yield when I put my order in is 2.668% over the life of the bond which is the higher it’s been decades. If you want to read a good write up, head over to TipsWatch.com for a debrief. I haven’t been buying...| Get Rich Slick!
I am fortunate in that I don’t have too many people asking me for money. Throughout most of my lifetime I’ve actually only been hit up for money about a dozen times but…. I don’t know what it is but I have a deep sense that something is wrong out there. I have a strange...| Get Rich Slick!
Last year I had accumulated $30k in municipal bonds in my taxable brokerage account as part of my tax strategy to earn tax free income and I’m happy to report that now a little over a year later I have $60k in munis earning a blended return of 5 percent. This is the tax free...| Get Rich Slick!
In 1994 a movie entitled, Four Weddings and a Funeral was released and became a huge hit worldwide. I vaguely remember that movie but I never forgot the title and hadn’t thought about it since this year when I’ll have attended four funerals by the time the year ends and no weddings. So far this...| Get Rich Slick!
Fidelity released their annual retiree health care estimate and rather than write a post about it, my favorite bond blogger recently published a video worth watching if you’re planning on retiring soon or are already in retirement. With the ever growing cost of health care insurance and the already ridiculously priced health care services, it’s...| Get Rich Slick!
I went on a recent trip to Costco and was floored by the cost of stuff. I spent $215 on 13 items and these were normal every day items not electronics or jewelry. I had an inflation category on my old blog where I would periodically track the cost of a cart of groceries but...| Get Rich Slick!
The administration signed a new rule around alternative investments in 401k’s today. The summary is below and I asked AI to give me a risk matrix for anyone considering adding speculation to your 401k. Key Developments President Trump signed an executive order on August 7, 2025, aimed at allowing alternative assets—such as cryptocurrencies, private equity,...| Get Rich Slick!
I got an email notice from my insurance company that they will now start charging a $5 fee for using credit card to pay my insurance premiums which I do because the whole thing is automated and I don’t want to write checks or pay bills online. They even charge $5 for using a debit...| Get Rich Slick!
I’ve been sitting and waiting to buy more municipal bonds for my portfolio in my cash accounts for tax free income. With the administration pressuring the Fed to cut rates and the recent miserable jobs report, the Fed may finally start cutting rates so I’m pulling the trigger on buying some bonds before those sweet high interest rates disappear. Note that back in February, munis were paying 7 percent!| Get Rich Slick!
In my post, What They Don’t Tell You About About Retiring Overseas, I wrote about how my wife and I are avid travelers. With one of our kids now seemingly living in Europe on a semi-permanent basis it makes a great deal of sense for us to consider buying a home somewhere in Europe to be closer to our son. | Get Rich Slick!
Month: July 2025| www.getrichslick.com
Unemployment has been creeping up, the core inflation report released today shows inflation running hotter and there is still a great deal of uncertainty around tariffs and economic policies which begs a fundamental question: how do you know if your firm/company that you work for is doing poorly? Back at the end of May, I...| Get Rich Slick!
In late February of 2024, I wrote a post entitled, “The Number 1 Skill To Have Now – AI” that outlined what I think would happen with AI over a long enough time frame. Specifically, I wrote the following:| Get Rich Slick!
Oh you poor souls, I never knew how bad you had it but I do now and I’m so sorry for you. About a year ago, I read an article entitled, “Everyone Hates Workday” by Business Insider. Here is a key excerpt from the whole article:| Get Rich Slick!
I’ve been using AI for a while now and I continue to learn better ways to use AI and prompt engineering. My latest use is something I picked off the Internet that really scaled things up. | Get Rich Slick!
I’m officially back home but I’ve already booked a trip to Europe and will be hoping around the world. I booked my return ticket for February 2026 but I’m not sure if I’ll be traveling that much yet or not. I wanted the flexibility since I’ll be back in Europe next year so I’ll use that as my return ticket. | Get Rich Slick!
I am finishing up an exploratory/holiday trip in South America. I checked out a few countries and plan on returning to check out more but I had a death in the family and now have to return back to the U.S. for a funeral. | Get Rich Slick!
I’ve been in South America now for almost two weeks and having a great time. This is part vacation and part exploration for retiring overseas that I’ve talked about here, here and here. | Get Rich Slick!
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$4000! That’s how much I paid for my 3 month supply of 10mg Zepbound this last time. You may be asking why so let me tell you. At the end of May I was laid off from work so my health insurance ended and I switched to my wife’s plan which does NOT cover Zepbound! I did have an option of extending COBRA under my old employer but the insurance premiums weren’t going to be subsidized so that meant paying $2000/month for health insurance then paying $2000 or maybe less for the Zepbo...| Get Rich Slick!
Month: March 2024| www.getrichslick.com
In case you didn’t know, billions of cicadas are supposed to be out and about this year and coincidentally so too are gold bugs out touting now is a good time to buy gold! There are also reports that Costco keeps selling out of gold bars in minutes as soon as they go on sale. | Get Rich Slick!
We’re in a whole new environment now after the recent actions taken by the U.S. against Iran. I won’t get into the politics of that decision and situation since this is a personal finance blog so the prudent thing to talk about here is how to prepare for a war economy. With the help of AI, I came up with this list. | Get Rich Slick!
I asked AI what quality of life means to most people and here is what I got.| Get Rich Slick!
One of the reasons I started this blog back up after a very long hiatus was the fact that I had a growing sense of corporate burn out. I’ve written about my college days where I worked at pizza places doing a variety of crappy jobs but today I’m going to write about the other end of the spectrum, corporate jobs.| Get Rich Slick!
I’m going to share the hardest money lesson and regret that I had in my career but as bad as it was, some had it far worse. | Get Rich Slick!
Is your spidey sense tingling? I don’t know about you buy my spidey sense is tingling and when that happens it means an economic recession is coming so how prepare for one?| Get Rich Slick!
Month: June 2025| www.getrichslick.com
My de-cluttering project has slowed. There are too many books, photo frames, and other objects that have “sentimental” value to my wife that it’s make the process slow. We talked about moving things to storage but I can already see that this stuff will sit there in storage for years before it ever gets touched again and it makes me think it’s a waste. | Get Rich Slick!
Do you remember the old Wild E Coyote vs Road Runner cartoons? The series of cartoons featured a coyote intent on capturing the road runner with endlessly elaborate traps, tricks and tactics and sadly, he was never successful, the road runner always got the best of the coyote.| Get Rich Slick!
Month: May 2025| www.getrichslick.com
I wrote about canceling subscriptions in my post “How To Prepare For A Recession” back in 2024 and this year, as I expected, got laid off. I re-examined my subscriptions to make sure I’m not wasting any money. I recently canceled my Apple TV+ subscription since the shows I liked I already watched and the new seasons won’t be fully out for a while.| Get Rich Slick!
Now that I’m unemployed, I signed up for unemployment benefits and it’s an interesting experience. First, there are many hoops to jump through to get started but after going through the gauntlet I finally got my benefit statement. It seems the state makes it as hard as possible to collect benefits.| Get Rich Slick!
Well today was my last day at work but don’t feel sorry for me as I got a generous severance package. And it came at the perfect time, right before summer so I can take a very long vacation traveling South America where it’s nice and cool.| Get Rich Slick!
Great news, the new 10 ml dose pushed me to lose 2 pounds. The somewhat bad news is that 10 ml dose makes my stomach nauseous most of the time. It’s not bad enough that I can’t cope but it really takes the hunger out of my system.| Get Rich Slick!
I love AI, aside from the creation of the Internet back in the 90s there hasn’t been anything developed as helpful nor as terrifying as AI. If you haven’t seen it already, the latest AI video generator Veo 3 is making headlines with fully AI generated videos that look like the real thing. | Get Rich Slick!
As I get closer to retirement, I’m getting really excited but there will be some “lambs” that will need to be sacrificed to make retirement work and last. So I’ve been taking inventory of things that I/we are willing to go without. Here’s a partial list:| Get Rich Slick!
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I have been doing some spring cleaning and came across an old credit card year end statement from 2001. It was a bit of a ‘blast from the past’ but what really struck me is how much the cost of stuff has gone up. For example, there was a fast food place named ‘Whataburger’ that I visited rather frequently and I always seem to spend $4.58. I assume that was the price of a #1 combo meal so I looked that up and the current cost in 2024 is $9.51. That’s a 107.6 percent change i...| Get Rich Slick!
At the start of this year, I decided to finally do something about my weight. Over the years I kept gaining about 1 or 2 pounds per year then I started working from home and the weight gain turned into 3 to 4 pounds a year to where I ballooned up to a weight that was starting to have serious potential health problems down the line. I talked to my doctor and we agreed to try Zepbound and see how it would work so here is a summary of my journey.| Get Rich Slick!
Let’s review my five retirement planning steps in case you missed any…click on the Steps to go to the appropriate Step.| Get Rich Slick!
Summer is almost here and across the United States many schools will be letting kids out for the summer and I thought about how our family approached family vacations for the summer. I was going to dig up my old planning spreadsheets but I decided on asking AI to generate a fresh new list and compare it to what I used in the past. | Get Rich Slick!
When our kids were young they loved to play the game Monopoly. Of course, each kid hated losing and hated having to depart with cash when landing on a property owned by someone else. Most of all the kids hated going bankrupt and losing the game. | Get Rich Slick!
While I don’t watch or listen to Dave Ramsey, I do occasional run across an article with an outrageous title such as this one, “Dave Ramsey delivers wake up call to Iowa couple making nearly $200k but struggling to make ends meet“| Get Rich Slick!
The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article on the tax risks of owning multiple residences or real estate in different states and it’s something that my wife and I have had to deal with over the past few years.| Get Rich Slick!
My wife and I have been thinking about retiring overseas. We both have traveled to at least 30 or more countries over the years and we are always thrilled when we meet new people and learn from others. Our favorite things to do is immerse ourselves in the local culture and we usually start that process by taking a local cooking class. To get some ideas on where we might retire, we spend time on YouTube looking at expats that have moved overseas and share their experiences. | Get Rich Slick!
