My Comments: This post expresses an opinion with respect to investing your money in the post-coronavirus world. It confirms my suspicions and offers realistic clues about where to not invest your money. by Stephen McBride \ MAY 11, 2020 \ https://tinyurl.com/yacxb3cg From No. 1. to BANKRUPT. In less than two years. My uncle used to …
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My Comments: Last Wednesday I posted something about Covid19 that resonated with me. Since then, I've I decided I'm tired of always writing about the stock market, about retirement planning, about Social Security, etc. Life for too many us has been turned upside down by the pandemic. So this week I'll be writing more about …
My Comments: I tell friends and clients I re-connect with that I'm staying home as much as possible in an attempt to remain safe while at the same time going bonkers for the same reason. I'll bet you are too. As a former financial planner and investment advisor, when I see headlines like this one …
As someone already in retirement, this is an issue I'm well aware of. It's not like it keeps me up at night but every time a large bill appears on the horizon, I become increasingly aware of the risk. For those of you still a long way from retirement, there are many issues over which …
My Comments: I found this to be a rational, entertaining and objective analysis of circumstances in which we find ourselves. It's ubiquitous, and it's potential for doing harm to me and my family is not far from my conscious thoughts seven days a week. I'm not sharing in an attempt to assign blame for what …
My Comments: The author of this article makes an analogy between cooking and retirement. Miss a critical ingredient and it fails to work as expected. As we sit here with our brains in a knot attempting to find some rational return to normalcy, his comments to some degree conform to what I'm spending time with …
Continue reading The Missing Ingredient in Most Retirement Plans
We don't usually associate retirement with spending money but there's a very strong relationship between the two. While there are other reasons, the primary reason for retirement is not wanting to work any more. Which begs the question, how are you going to pay for it. In today's America, apart from the current pandemic with …
What follows are some words commonly used to describe retirement. They are all positive and ignore the fact that for some people, they are illusory. As the global pandemic rages on, whether you're already retired or it's somewhere in your future, there is a now need to find good things to think about from time …
If you're a functional adult and working for a living, taxes are always somewhere in the background of your financial well being. We don't have to like it, but it's a fact of life for most of us living today in America. At some point, you'll stop working for money and money will start working …
My Comments: Our recovery from our experience of the global pandemic will not be quick or inexpensive. We've already spent trillions of dollars and the damned thing is far from over. Society will look very different from what it was late last year. by Jim VanderHel & Mike Allen \ 19 APR 2020 \ https://tinyurl.com/y9ozjjy3 …
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