Normally, this positive news would encourage the market to move higher today.<\/p>\n But September is a hard month. … The worst of the year.<\/p>\n Please do not panic and sell. That’s the worst kind of selling. No reason for it. We’re doing just fine.<\/p>\n Don’t watch the ticker. Watch the tennis.<\/p>\n The men’s semi-finals begin this afternoon at 4 PM ET. The finals are Saturday and Sunday. It’s called Championship Weekend<\/em>. I’m guessing they’ll be on ESPN.<\/p>\n Elon Musk is not having a good time. I’m glad we’re out of Tesla.<\/p>\n SEC warns on cannabis stocks.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n From today’s BusinessInsider:<\/p>\n The SEC has a stern warning about soaring marijuana stocks<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>“If you are thinking about investing in a marijuana-related company, you should beware of the risks of investment fraud and market manipulation,” the US Securities and Exchange Commission said in a press release Thursday. “Fraudsters may try to use media coverage about the legalization of marijuana to promote an investment scam.”<\/p>\n How to retire early — real early!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The New York Times<\/em> has a piece:<\/p>\n How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank<\/strong> It begins:<\/p>\n Carl Jensen experienced what he calls \u201cthe awakening\u201d sometime around 2012.<\/p>\n He was a software engineer in a suburb of Denver, writing code for a medical device. The job was high-pressure: He had to document every step for the Food and Drug Administration, and a coding error could lead to harm or death for patients.<\/p>\n Mr. Jensen was making about $110,000 a year and had benefits, but the stress hardly seemed worth it. He couldn\u2019t unwind with his family after work; he spent days huddled over the toilet. He lost 10 pounds.<\/p>\n After one especially brutal workday, Mr. Jensen Googled \u201cHow do I retire early?\u201d and his eyes were opened. He talked to his wife and came up with a plan: They saved a sizable portion of their income over the next five years and drastically reduced expenses, until their net worth was around $1.2 million.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, March 10, 2017, Mr. Jensen called his boss and gave notice after 15 years at the company. He wasn\u2019t quitting, exactly. He had retired. He was 43.<\/p>\n I found these three paragraphs especially interesting:<\/p>\n Last year, the couple left Southern California in search of a community that would give them more financial freedom, a journey Mr. Rieckens, formerly a creative director for a creative agency, is chronicling in a documentary, \u201cPlaying With FIRE.\u201d<\/p>\n They ended up in Bend, Ore., where there\u2019s no state sales tax and they could afford to buy a house. Gas for their used Honda CRV with 186,000 miles (they got rid of the BMW and downsized to one vehicle) is a dollar-per-gallon cheaper than in San Diego, although Mr. Rieckens often rides his bike around town.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole retire early thing is unimportant to me. It\u2019s more about gaining control of your time,\u201d Mr. Rieckens said. \u201cIf you dive into the definition of retirement, what you\u2019re retiring from is mandatory labor. It\u2019s not necessarily about pi\u00f1a coladas on the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n You can read the whole FIRE piece here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Favorite recent New Yorker cartoons<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"news1\"](\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/news1.jpg\")
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\nFed up with their high-pressure jobs, some millennials are quitting and embracing the FIRE movement. (It stands for financial independence, retire early).<\/em><\/p>\n