The number of labor force participants over age 65 has increased about 22 percent in the past three years. My Comment: I have to confess to a “Duh” moment when I saw this headline. My plans for retirement went out the window starting sometime in 2008. Not that I had any real plans to start …
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WSJ story and chart about how "Chinese applicants flood U.S. graduate schools." My Comment: I'm troubled by the pressures that appear from time to time that imply we should build up our military so we can effectivly counter the threat posed by China. Currently, I have a Chinese exchange student working with me as an …
My Comment: Here is award letter #6. Hofstra University is well known to most of you. Not a name that comes up very often here in the south but one with an impeccable reputation. This is for someone enrolling as a freshman this fall. That's a lot of money that doesn't have to be paid …
Continue reading CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 10, 2012
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My Comment: It’s sometimes helpful to look back a few months, sometimes a few years, to see what I was thinking at the time and to compare what was then with what we see now. For example, as investment advisors we have long embraced the idea of a diversified portfolio to minimize risk. Think Enron; …
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My Comment: Long Term Care insurance is one of those topics agents like myself find difficult to deal with. I learned years ago to talk about life insurance in spite of the fact that the very idea repelled most people. After all, none of want to volunatarily deal with death, much less our own. But …
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My Comment: This article appeared last November and came from a company well known to us in the insurance industy, A.M.Best Company. This is the company that rates insurance companies to help the consumer make intelligent choices. The topic will be of no interest to many of you. However, it deals with Medical Professional Liability …
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How the conservative belief in American exceptionalism has become a matter of faith. My Comment: Christopher Hitchens wrote and posted this article last November. Like me, he was an Englishman who made his home in the United States. Unlike me, he was an accomplshed thinker and writer. Unfortunately, he died late last year after a …
My Comment: Here is award letter #5. I'm planning to show one of these a week for several more weeks. My idea is to build a library of examples of the kind of money there is out there for high school students and even college students who want to go to graduate school. The process …
Continue reading CollegeMoneyNow Award Letter of the Week – April 3, 2012
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