How is this for a start?
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What web sites have FIRE related information?:
Index fund FAQ at NFB
http://nofeeboards.com/docs/faq.html
Gummy Stuff:
http://home.golden.net/~pjponzo/gummy_stuff.htm
Efficient Frontier
http://www.efficientfrontier.com/
Bylo:
http://www.bylo.org/saferetr.html
FIRE calculators
Cap'n Bill's FIREcalc
http://www.capn-bill.com/fire/
Chips: with an implicit strong recommendation from JohnR, I think, in his frequent use of it.
http://www.i-orp.com/
Chips: This calculator uses a powerful mathematical optimization technique, linear programming, in deriving its answers. Some retirement calculators that are over-simplified.
Retire Early Home Page
http://www.retireearlyhomepage.com/
(see footnote)
Vicki and Paul Terhorst Travel, Early Retirement, and Contemplation Page
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/5315/
Trinity Study at AAII:
http://www.aaii.com/promo/mstar/feature.shtml
(see footnote)
AAII:
www.aaii.com
(some information restricted to members)
IRA information:
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/page/0,,id=12598,00.html
IRA distributions can be taken early if you follow certain rules.
You can receive distributions from your traditional IRA that are part of a series of substantially equal payments over your life (or your life expectancy), or over the lives (or the joint life expectancies) of you and your beneficiary, without having to pay the 10% additional tax, even if you receive such distributions before you are age 59½. You must use an IRS-approved distribution method and you must take at least one distribution annually for this exception to apply. The required minimum distribution method, when used for this purpose, results in the exact amount required to be distributed, not the minimum amount.
FIRE Books
Cashing in on the American Dream: How to Retire at 35
Paul Terhorst
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 553052896/
YMOYL by Dominguez and Robbins
(aka Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence )
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140286780/
Hyperborea points out that the investing advice in the book is highly questionable. I think people mostly like the other parts.
How to Retire Early and Live Well With Less Than a Million Dollars, Gillette Edmunds
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 580622011/
The Millionaire Next Door, The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko.
Reviews located by Chips:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/st ... xtdoor.htm and
http://www.bookbrowse.com/dyn_/title/titleID/242.htm
http://www.dealtime.com/xMPR-~PD-486536 ... ~RI-985455
Clutter's Last Stand by Don Aslett
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 898791375/
Not for Packrats Only by Don Aslett
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 452265932/
The Joy of Not Working by Ernie Zelinski
Karma: is good for getting you in the right frame of mind. Looks like he is issuing another edition this month.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580085520/
Get a Life: You Don't Need a Million to Retire Well by Ralph Warner
Dual: The author goes a little bit overboard for my taste, but the emotional/social part of retirement is as important as the financial IMO. The author has a good discussion about how to do volunteering so you don't end up stuffing envelopes and answering phones (unless you want to).
The Intelligent Asset Allocator by Wm. Bernstein
Tuffy88: His first book, about the best index asset allocation book I have read
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by Bogle
Four Pillars by Bernstein
Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey
Financial Peace Workbook by Dave Ramsey
Smart Couples Finish Rich by David Bach
The Finish Rich Workbook by David Bach
How to get out of debt, stay out of debt & live prosperously
by Jerrold Mundis
Peteyperson: key book to help people clear debt
to start on the path to FIRE - many people cut back to pay off
debt, realise they have spare cash having done that for 2 years
and want to know where to put it. So books on personal finance
lay the groundwork.)
The Richest Man in Babylon
WiseNlucky: "had profound impact on me."
A Modest Home Study Course from William Bernstein:
http://www.efficientfrontier.com/reading.htm
Investing in Real Estate By andrew Mclean and Gary Eldred
(nice comparison of stock investments vs real estate in the 4th Ed based on current relative dividends/rents)
Make Money with Condominiums and Townhouses
Gary Eldred
footnote:
The Trinity Study and REHP study are based on a time with high real stock returns (in the 6-7% range) There is a significant probability of lower future market returns and lower "safe" withdrawal rates (at least for investors using an S&P 500 or total stock market based approach)
Internet Acronyms
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/
http://emoticonuniverse.com/slang/