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402: Your Budget is Like a Leaking Ship by Jacob Lund Fisker of Early Retirement Extreme

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🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Jacob Lund Fisker of Early Retirement Extreme compares American consumption to a wooden ship. Episode 402: Your Budget is Like a Leaking Ship by Jacob Lund Fisker of Early Retirement Extreme (Debt & Investing Success). Jacob Lund Fisker was a nuclear astrophysicist who retired at 33 with what he believes to be enough savings to last the rest of his life — even if he never works again. His "claim to fame" is the Early Retirement Extreme site, which is effectively a philosophy of life. ERE is a set of values and principles that gives readers the freedom and opportunity to live an exciting and interesting life. The original post is located here: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/your-budget-is-like-sinking-ship.html Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com & in The O.L.D. Podcasts Facebook Group! and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Your Budget is like a leaking ship

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Your budget is like a leaking ship by Jacob Lundfisker of Early Retirement Extreme.com.

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As far as I understand, wooden ships are never completely watertight,

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