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One of the many differences between the US and the Netherlands is how people save for retirement. While in the Netherlands the majority of people rely for a large part on (heavily regulated) pension funds, in the US it is much more common for people to take control of their own retirement savings. Most companies... Continue Reading →
Roller Coaster Ride We live in volatile times. With everything going on in the world these last few years, the stock market has been a great roller coaster ride. After a steady climb that lasted a decade came the nosedive at the start of the pandemic, followed by some G-forces and another steep climb when... Continue Reading →
Americans love their credit cards. People here literally use them for every transaction, all the time. I remember precisely the day I used cash last year: I bought firewood on our anniversary camping trip in April, because the ranger station only accepted bills dropped through a slit in a box (for this reason I always... Continue Reading →
Okay, so this happened. A blog. It's been a while (more like a decade or two) since I had a place on the web to showcase my work and thoughts. Back in those days I had to type in all the html-code myself. Now WordPress makes life a lot easier I see. A lot of... Continue Reading →
Remco Scheepmaker 