My Comments: By the time they arrived on the scene, I felt there wasn’t enough time left for me to grow a meaningful amount in the few years I had left to work. So, I never opened a Roth IRA. I wish I had but it didn’t happen. I now have many clients with Roth …
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My Comments: There are as many articles that tell us a bear market has arrived as there are articles that say one will not happen any time soon. I have no idea which one is right. All I do know is that bear market signals are in many ways loud and clear. And if you …
Continue reading What Happens After a Bear Market Starts? Four Things to Know
My Comments: Here we are again with another flip-flop. By now you know I have absolutely no clue WHEN a crash will happen, just that it will. If you think what the writer below is saying is nonsense, that’s OK. It may be. On the other hand, I made a living for decades trying to …
Continue reading History Suggests a Stock Market Crash Is Likely
One of the best analogies I’ve seen used to describe what follows here is that it’s sometimes called the “Swiss Army Knife of Retirement Planning”. This resonates with me as I’ve had a real Swiss Army Knife for dozens of years. It has multiple uses which is why it’s often in my pocket. What follows …
Continue reading Is This Financial Tool the Best Idea Since Sliced Bread?
My Comments: After 45 years of playing whackamole with the stock and bond market, I've long concluded I have zero access to a crystal ball. That being said, I now rely heavily on those whose expertise far exceeds mine and are far more likely to be correct than I ever hoped to be. If you …
Continue reading We Are Now Officially In A Stock Market Bubble
There's long been controversy about these two terms and how they should be applied. For millions of us already retired and for those of us with an expectation of eventual retirement, a basic understanding of their relationship might mean the difference between financial success and failure as the years pass. My objective with this post …
My Comments: My attempted theme this week is what to do with your retirement money going forward. For better or worse, I'm still waiting for the next significant downturn to put my money back to work. Some of you who have ridden the upswing over the past several weeks think I'm nuts. Some of this …
I don't know about you, but I've got time on my hands. Something that keeps me busy is posting something on my web site Monday thru Friday. This started some 10 years ago and the count is now well over 2000. Lately, I've been trying to establish a weekly theme for myself in terms of …
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 …
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