My Thoughts on This: I saved this article when I found it about a year ago. This morning, I happened upon it again and saw when it was first published. Almost FOUR YEARS AGO! And I’ll bet nothing has improved since then. But the message is still very real. Enjoy. 11:00 AM Wednesday May 27, …
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Lockheed Martin Scores Desalination Breakthrough?
My Thoughts on This: You’ve heard me talk about the future where my children are at an age where I am now. Roughly 2040. Seems like a long way away, but its really not. Today, I happen to have on a shirt that honors the Gators 1996 National Champtionship; that was 17 years ago, for …
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Americans Take Payroll-Tax Increase in Stride to Keep Spending
My Comments: There is a lot of evidence and sentiment that 2013 will be a solid year. Housing starts are strong and will continue to be at least until interest rates start to climb. The jobs report continues to be positive with roughly 200K new jobs every month for the past four months. GDP growth …
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THE ONLY SAFE WITHDRAWAL RATE
My Comments: For many years than I am aware of, there have been “experts” who have expressed their opinion about the optimum rate to withdraw money from accumulated retirement funds. The reason for this is to offset a fear by many of running out of money at some point before you die. Typically, that’s not …
Obama Planned Big Budget Cuts All Along
My Comments: I’m trying to decide if the author of this article is fundamentally to the left of the Obama administration and therefore critical of his lack of fire in promoting new revenue sources for the country, ie higher taxes, or whether the writer is critical because virtually everyone on the right is critical, regardless …
Austerity Obstructs Real Economic Reform
My Thoughts on This: This article comes from the Financial Times, a primarily English publication. If it has a bias, it is probably toward what we think of as liberal. And I’m usually forced to copy the entire post for those of you who are interested since to create a link forces the reader to …
Obama Has a Deficit Reduction Plan and Republicans Don’t
My Thoughts on This: I'm not sure this is quite accurate. I'm not sure if anyone has a definitive deficit reduction plan. Clearly, no one in Washington seems particularly upset by the idea that there are going to be across the board cuts in the next several days that are going to impact the country. …
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Retirement Security Gets More Complicated
My Comments: While this was written a few weeks ago, the underlying theme is entirely valid today. There is little chance that interest rates are going to see any significant increase over the next 24 months. The Fed has said they are not going to mess with them for perhaps two more years. There is …
Panel: No Need To Sweat The End Of 30-Year Bond Rally
My Comments: All of this reinforces my advice as a financial advisor for my clients to use the programs from Purcell Advisory Services. Yes, this is a commercial, but if you have money to invest, and are not happy with where it is or the folks allegedly looking after it, click on this maze image …
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Bullish Bets Rising In Commodities
My Comments: For some years now, there has been a slowly growing recognition that the investment world has more than two basic elements. We’ve always thought stocks and bonds. Sure, there were always outliers but they were never given the same formal recognition given to stocks and bonds. Today, many of us refer to the …
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