On the road to financial independence and beyond
When I started looking after my own money and began to invest things moved very slowly. There were no FIRE blogs, or even FIRE books that I was aware of. I didn’t know that FIRE meant financial independence retire early. My inclination was to save and invest as I began to earn money, but I…
On BBC’s Question Time TV programme, last week in Bolton, a man earning over £80,000 criticised Labour’s higher tax policy. He believed (wrongly) that earning over £80,000 didn’t put him in the top 5% of earners. That incorrect claim was swiftly rebutted. This led to a wider debate in the media. I was interested to…