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My Comments: Are you ready for a little positive thinking? Frankly, I’m long since sick and tired of hearing only negative stuff about life in the US today. Not that there isn’t a lot of negative stuff, just that I’m tired of hearing about it. Some of that is due to the fact that we’ve …
Continue reading When the Next Recession Hits, 4 Good Things Could Happen
My Comments: I grew up thinking I’d retire when I reached 65. That was in 2006. For a lot of reasons, here I am in 2019 calling myself semi-retired and working about 30 hours each week. Yes, I no longer have to put on a coat and tie and wander around town looking for new …
Continue reading The New Normal for Retirement: There Isn’t One
My Comments: Wealth inequality has become an existential threat to the future of American society. The chaos in Washington, indeed the election of trump to ‘drain the swamp’, is an evolving extension of this problem. If the problem has a solution, it’s going to take many years, perhaps generations, to see us return to the …
Continue reading How To Solve America’s $100 Trillion Problem Of Wealth Inequality
My Comments: When you buy bonds, someone now owes you money. When you buy stocks, you now own part of a commercial enterprise, if not all of it. But this is about bonds. If you lend money to your kids, and expect them to pay you back, you may or may not charge them for …
By Tony Kendzior, CLU, ChFC These facts about Social Security are intended as general information for those planning to file for Social Security benefits. The idea is to help you get what you are entitled to and not leave dollars behind that can’t be recovered. You should seek guidance from the Social Security Administration (SSA) …
My Comments: My professional focus these days is helping people retire with more money. Headlines like these don’t help much. If your focus is just growing a larger pile of money so when you do retire, your pile is large enough to finance what could be a 30 year time span, an existential threat to …
Continue reading Lower Your Expectations for Returns Over the Next Decade
My Comments: Most of you know that I’m now semi-retired. My transition to full retirement is ongoing and may not happen until my lights go out. This outcome is more and more common these days. Many millions of us are not ready to fully retire and we find ways to continue doing what we’ve done …
Continue reading Got a will? Here are 11 more end-of-life documents you may need
My Comments: As someone with more years under my belt that I like to think about, dealing with the potential costs of long term care is never far from my mind. We all know that sooner or later the light will go out, but none of can be sure it will go out quickly. And …
Continue reading 5 Long-Term Care Stats That Will Blow You Away
My Comments: You may have heard me describe myself as a Social Capitalist. That term is my effort to describle my views as an economist troubled by the widening gap in income across this country. Sooner or later we have to come to terms with what I call unfettered capitalism which in my judgement, has …
Continue reading A Radical, Redistributive Re-imagining of Capitalism?
It's about as fun as herding cats, but rounding up all your IRAs and 401(k)s into just one or two accounts can really simplify your financial life. My Comments: The IRS says you can have as many retirment accounts as you like. All they care about is getting their share of the money when you …
Continue reading What to Do with All Those Old 401(k)s and IRAs
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