US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump and US Ambassadors in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2025. MANDEL NGAN / AFP The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday, March 26, published what it said was the full text of a chat group … Read more
By their own admission, today’s interviewee is straight from the high-earner IT professional FIRE central casting department. But as we’ll be reminded once again, everyone faces obstacles and Rich has had to overcome an early property debacle and some very difficult family planning challenges in their journey to financial independence. A place by the FIRE … Read more
More than a year’s worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members. The Russian-language chats on the Matrix messaging platform between September 18, 2023, and September 28, 2024, were initially … Read more
Most of the original financial independence blogs have long gone the way of final salary pension schemes. But stalwart Monevator commenter Ermine’s Simple Living in Somerset has been standing strong since 2010 – albeit with cross-country and domain name moves – and so is nearly as ancient as we are. Known for his iconoclastic views on … Read more
Back in the mists of time (aka 2007) I planned Monevator to be as much about entrepreneurship as investing. That faded as we honed our niche, but I’m still delighted when I find a business success story in our ranks. Valiant has commented on Monevator for years, but I’d never guessed his background. It’s heartening … Read more