Author Recent Posts The Wanderer retired from his engineering job at a major Silicon Valley semiconductor company at the age of 33. He now travels the world, seeking out knowledge from other wealthy people, so that he can teach people how to become Financially Independent themselves. Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash Another year of retirement over, and what a year it’s been! 2025 started off with US president Donald Trump’s return to power, and by April he had started a full-blown trade war with every trading partner and was threatening to annex Canada. Since then, we’ve seen the evolution of the Ukraine conflict into a grinding war of attrition powered by drones, and now the start of a whole new conflict in Venezuela. It’s been a dizzying flurry of news, all of which sounds big and scary. So how has this all affected our investments? To recap, here’s our portfolio.…