My Comments: I’m now out of the markets with the exception of a Vanguard fund focused on high dividend yield stocks. And I may get out of that today… or not… By Daren Fonda \ Nov. 30, 2018 Dovish comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent the stock market soaring on Wednesday. But bond …
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My Comments: I wrote this is May of 2017. I set it aside in an effort to help minimize potential bad feelings from friends and associates who didn't, and perhaps still don't, share my values as a Social Capitalist. I've reached the point in time where I no longer give a damn if anyone 'unfriends' …
My Comments: I am now among the ranks of internet publishers! Almost four years in the making, Successful Retirement Secrets is an internet course that teaches a system to help you process retirement information. The goal is to arrive at retirement ready with enough resources to live your life to the fullest with a minimum …
My Comments: My efforts to coach people to start thinking seriously about their future retirement is complicated. For every positive associated with retirement there are just as many negatives. This is one of them. Unless you plan to die before you reach retirement, you should find time to get your ducks lined up well in …
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My Comments: Too many people are wondering where the money will come from to pay for their retirement. And too many people will not have enough money to live the way they want to. And too many people will not have the necessary resources to pay for health care in retirement. All this is leading …
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My Comments: Do you want to re-invent the present so it more closely resembles the past that you know and understand and were happy with? Good luck with that. The present and the future is the only thing we can influence. Whether it’s over millennia or the next decade, the sooner you come to terms …
Continue reading The clear message in the United States’ shifting demographics
My Comments: Retirement mistakes are rarely obvious until long after you make them. And then it’s almost always too late to find a remedy. Don’t let yourself fall for the argument that on it’s face says you get more money if you wait to claim your Social Security benefits. Regardless of when you start, you're …
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My Comments: We’re now almost three weeks past the midterm results. And the markets have been mostly negative. Now the discussion is about how far it will drop, and when, before the inevitable bottom and return to reality. My frustration is that I’ve been expecting a severe drop now for over 3 years; it makes …
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My Comments: In addition to death and taxes, a third ‘truth’ is demographics. A reason for our current political troubles is that the historic white Christian majority believes it is under attack. And it is. And many in that historically white majority want to live in the past. I’ve long learned we cannot live in …
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