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The most important numbers to track
The two most important numbers to track your early retirement strategy are:
- Your savings rate: This is the percentage of your income that you're saving either before or after taxes in all of your accounts
- Your net-worth: This is the most important metric to track. Net-worth = your assets - your liabilities.
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- Ensure to have both a short- and long term investing strategy.
- Only invest in what you understand.
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FIRE is a financial movement of extreme savings and investment that allows proponents to retire far earlier than traditional budgets and retirement plans would allow.
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- The aging population is causing fewer contributors.
- More people are retiring due to increased longevity.
- Corporate collapses, such as bankruptcy of Enron negatively affect private pension plans.
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