This product by Vanguard came up once on Diary of a CEO in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: JL Collins. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
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Passive Income Expert: Buying A House Makes You Poorer Than Renting!
“I'm an advocate of investing in... which would be my recommendation”
“I'm an advocate of investing in broad-based, low-cost stock index funds... An example of that is VTSAX, which is Vanguard's total stock market index fund.”— JL Collins
The guest here is JL Collins: American financial blogger and author of the bestselling 'The Simple Path to Wealth' (millions of copies sold), originally written as financial advice for his daughter. A leading voice in the FIRE (financial independence) movement. Financial author JL Collins argues buying a house is usually an indulgence not an investment, and lays out his simple, low-cost index-fund path to wealth.
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