Weekly list of curated personal finance articles from around the web.

Your car payment is a huge roadblock to financial freedom (Financial Samurai). If you’re going to live generously and save and invest adequately, a car payment doesn’t fit on your cash flow plan.

Prediction markets: the hunt for the new ‘dumb money’ (Financial Times via archive.is). “‘It was after I started seeing green’ — meaning the account was in profit — ‘that it basically started consuming me’”

Field of dreams (Finding Joy). “Parents need to stop treating their kids like a second chance to live their own unrealized dreams.”

A New Jersey teen finds treasure, and more, in abandoned storage units (NY Times). Interesting piece about a hard-working teen and the meaning of our stuff.

Survive, advance… and compound (The Art of Boring). With investing, you have to stay with it through thick and thin.

Why your digital assets need a place in your estate plan (Modera Wealth Management). So much of our lives are online now. Make sure your loved ones know what you have “out there” and how to gain access.

How to prevent an inheritance nightmare (Clark Howard). Make your intentions clear before it’s too late.

Retirement mistakes my boomer parents made that I’ll avoid (Kiplinger). A common regret: failure to save enough.

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