OK, no one likes to make mistakes. As we journey through life, and make mistakes from time to time, we tend to learn from them and not make the same mistake again. At least that’s the plan. Retirement, however, presents us with challenges we’ve not had to face before, and sometimes, we realize too late …
Continue reading 4 Critical Mistakes About Money in Retirement
My Comments: My reaction to this headline was skepticism. Some of that’s because while I'm no longer officially in business as a financial planner and investment advisor, I don’t think of myself as retired. For much of the 20th Century, retirement was defined as a single day in time, as described in this article. However, …
Continue reading The Day You Retire Might Be One of The Hardest Days of Your Life
My Comments: A massive problem for Americans going forward involves the cost of health care. I’m not here to offer ideas about how to solve that problem, that’s for our next elected leaders. I am here to tell you that if you haven’t already died, chances are you’re going to need some form of long-term …
Continue reading America’s long-term care crisis is worsening
Last May I published Part I where I talked about climate change and it’s implications for anyone with plans to retire in Florida or is already here. I was fortunate also to have it appear in our local newspaper, the Gainesville Sun. My main focus these days is marketing my online school, Successful Retirement Secrets. …
My Comments: I recently had a conversation with someone close to me about them making a renewed effort to stop smoking. It was triggered by the price of a carton if cigarettes when purchased here in Florida vs in Virginia. If the topic of this article wasn't so disturbing, it would compete with the effects …
Continue reading 4 Ways to Ensure You Won’t Run Out of Money in Retirement
My Comments: Big numbers tend to go in one ear and out the other. If I say that 2050 is but a mere 30 years from now, many of you will shrug your shoulders. Because even 30 years is sometimes too big a number to grasp. Yet, the number $15.8 Trillion could be become very …
My Comments: Millions of American are petrified of changes taking place in society. The old order of things has an appeal that causes them to take steps to preserve the past that would otherwise seem bizarre. As it is with retirement. The concept of working much of your adult life and then ‘retiring’ and living …
My Comments: There are bulls and there are bears in the investment world. Bears are typically pessimists, always expecting bad things to happen. And from time to time they do. Over the years, I’ve not been a fan of Jeffrey Gundlach since I’m basically an optimist, and I’ve been right from time to time. That …
Continue reading Gundlach: US Stocks ‘Will Get Crushed’ in Next Recession
Millions of Americans are already retired. Many more millions expect to retire. And a great majority of them (of us) will experience financial pain in some form. Some of this pain can be avoided if you know about it and take steps to prevent it. There are two definitive ways to avoid this possible pain. …
My Comments: On one hand, there are already too many candidates in the Democratic Party run for President. On the other hand, Michael Bloomberg has skills I think are missing among some of the other candidates. I’ve long argued that immigrants are necessary for us to maintain an economic advantage on the global stage going …
Continue reading US would benefit from more, not fewer, immigrants – Michael Bloomberg
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