To celebrate the new year, here are some of the most popular MarketWatch articles of 2019. The one with the most readers by far was Catey Hills interview with a retired teacher who moved to Panama and believes it would be an act of insanity to stay in the U.S.

Dean Weymes quit his job at Amazon.com AMZN, +0.06%, and the companys human resources department found his reason difficult to believe.

Based on LinkedIns year-end emerging jobs list, this profession has had the most rapid hiring growth over the past five years and has an average annual salary of $140,000.

Every day there are warnings about the stock market, but this one about the next 20 years struck a chord with readers, who left more than 500 comments.

As part of a series of articles helping people decide where to live when they retire, Catey Hill listed three possible locations by the ocean for a man with modest income.

This teen figured out how to make good money by giving people what they wanted via social media but he was surprised how quickly it was pulled out from under him.

Nearly 1,000 readers left comments after reading this list of 16 money wasters that keep Americans from saving for retirement.

Heres how to do it.

Brett Arends interviewed Kristin Morrison, who started a very small and very successful business that led to an early retirement.

FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) is an easy concept to sell who wouldnt want to be financially independent at a young age? There are, of course, many approaches people have taken to achieve financial independence heres how one couple did it.

Quentin Fottrell MarketWatchs Moneyist helped many readers over the year. This is the most-read of all those and involves someone facing a life-changing decision.

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