Merry Christmas from RetireJapan
Merry Christmas! I’ll be cooking Xmas dinner all day today (we eat on Christmas Eve, Spanish style) so rushing to get this out on Sunday evening.
Here are this week’s links:
- Is your spending under control? It’s the Spending, Stupid
- Executive salaries in Japan: Carlos Ghosn’s arrest spurs debate on executive salaries in Japan
- I did this a few months ago: At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts
- Interesting YouTube channel with tax and small business explanations in English.
- Could you live on 5,000-6,000 US$ a month? Why yes, yes I could. One Million Dollars
- Not sure we got our money’s worth here: Bank of Japan’s ¥400 trillion cash injection changes little for ordinary people
- This video was interesting for the delivery. I wonder how much the audience paid to be there?
- I found this fascinating, even though I don’t surf (yet). Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave.
- Counterintuitive: The Power of Being Weak
- I still like blogs (and RSS!): From the Hyperlink to the Stream: Hossein Derakshan’s Critique of the Internet in the Age of Social Media
- I need to work on my sleep and my diet: Standard Diagnostics
- It’s the saving, stupid. Which matters more for building wealth: your saving rate or your investment returns?
- I’ve had all the paperwork to do this in my drawer since 2011: Applying for Japanese Citizenship
- I’m a huge fan of Sebastian’s essays: The Strategic Review Archives
- How to deal with the falling stock markets: Happy Holidays! and a bit on Mr. Market
- This is a great little article: In a Tokyo neighborhood’s last sushi restaurant, a sense of loss
- Quite enjoyed this blog intro: 10 Questions With The Frug
What do you think? Anything good in there? I really enjoyed #8 and #16.
Here is the only book I read/bought/finished this week:
Investing in the US (Reed Goosens). This is an introduction to real estate investing in the US as a non-resident. It’s pretty detailed and provides a good overview of the topic. Made me realise I am far too lazy to do this though 🙂