Weekly Links: Retirement and Investing

If you haven’t noticed, the stock market is rallying. I’m an automatic investment, buy and hold kind of guy, so I don’t really care; but it does have me thinking about investing and saving for retirement at the moment. Fortunately, there happen to be some great posts in the blogosphere this week on, what else, retirement and investing!

We all wonder from time to time if we’re saving enough for retirement. Get Rich Slowly (@jdroth) has a great post this week on that subject: Ask the Readers: How Much Should You Save for Retirement? Ten percent? Twenty percent? Thirty-five percent? Get J.D.’s take and see what his many readers have to say in the comments.

Monevator (@Monevator) is a great investing blog I discovered this week. A post there, Seven Ways to Invest in the Stock Market When You’ve Got No Money, takes a look at a common problem: How can you start learning about investing if you’re still paying down debt (when the only investments you should be making are your debt payments).

Next up, Free Money Finance (@FMFblog) offers a very simple Retirement Plan Priority List. See how yours compares! (One suggestion: Add “pay off any credit card debt” in between numbers one and two).

Finally, a quick shout out to the two carnivals I participated in this week: The Carnival of Personal Finance at Simply Forties (@SimplyForties) and the Carnival of Twentysomething Finances at Rabbit Funds (@rabbitfunds).

As always, thanks for reading!

David @MoneyUnder30

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