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Podcast #158 Show Notes: Which Physician Specialty is Best for Retiring Early? If you want to retire early, which specialty would be best to go into? Let’s get one thing straight from the beginning, medicine is not a great option for FIRE in the first place. With the long years in training, you won’t even start making significant money until your mid-thirties with $300-400K in student loan debt. Traditional FIRE at 30 or 35 like all these FIRE blogs talk about is not possible in that situation. So if your goal is to retire early, medicine is probably not the...

Parents the world over are dealing with massive adjustments in their children’s education that they could not have anticipated just three months ago. To one degree or another, pandemic-induced school closures are creating the “mass homeschooling” that FEE’s senior education fellow Kerry McDonald predicted two months ago. Who knows, with millions of youngsters absent from government school classrooms, maybe education will become as good as it was before the government ever got involved. “What?” you exclaim! “Wasn’t education lousy or nonexistent before government mandated it, provided it, and subsidized it? That’s what my government schoolteachers assured me, so it must be true.”...

The lockdown and social distancing measures due to COVID-19 have caused people to miss certain things in their lives. From a favorite meal at their go-to restaurant to seeing their friends at their normal barre class, the change from people's normal lives have made them long for the familiar. The one thing that I miss from my pre-COVID life is not the pedicures or the happy hours - what I miss the most is my husband. This came as a surprise to me. Neither one of us are front-line workers. We live in the same home and have a good...

During the Coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of artists and art instructors are stepping up to provide online art classes for kids who are experiencing a quasi-homeschool experience. These art classes for kids are for children of a variety of ages and provide instruction on everything from simple craft projects and beginner drawings to intermediate activities like water color painting and portraiture. Some come with downloadable print-outs and class sheets, some help kids learn painting; others are simply instructional videos. All supply kids with a chance to brush up (get it?) on their art skills while stuck at home. Here, then, are...

Netflix is reportedly reverting back to full quality video streams as network capacity is proven to handle the extra strain during lockdown.Like almost all other streaming services, it had reduced its bitrates from the end of March in order to avoid overloading networks across Europe and beyond. However, data from the likes of the UK's communications regulator Ofcom shows that network capacity coped with increased demand, even during the busiest periods. If you love Tiger King watch these shows next The European Union and others at governmental level in several countries were concerned that the combination of working from home,...