A movement focused on saving aggressively to reach financial independence well before traditional retirement age.
FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early — the goal of accumulating enough invested assets (often around 25 times yearly expenses) that work becomes optional. It is driven primarily by a high savings rate: the larger the share of income you save and invest, the sooner the timeline. Variations range from frugal "lean FIRE" to higher-spending "fat FIRE."
Saving 50% of income can put financial independence within reach in under two decades.
FIRE — Financial Independence, Retire Early — is not one strategy. It is a spectrum of approaches from extreme frugality to comfortable early semi-retirement. Here is how each variant works.
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