My Comments: This post comes courtesy of BenefitsPro.com. The editor has been a strong supporter of Mr. Romney until an email he sent last week said “It’s Over”. He said he could no longer support the GOP candidate and was going to vote for Ron Paul. Here’s a link to his comments. I’m not sure …
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Don’t Pay for Your Kids’ College, Wealth Manager Urges Boomers
My Comments: By now you know that I spend time every week talking about the cost of a college education for your student and for any student in high school who has expectations of getting a college education. I've asked help from you in the past as to how to get this message across to …
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The Biggest Bubble in Human History
My Comments: The word “bubble”, in the context of investments, has come to mean a time when values are overstated, and many people are going to suffer financial disaster. The classic examples include the Tulip Mania, where in February 1637 in Denmark, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income …
Good Piece on U.S. Concerns: Libya v. Egypt v. Whomever
My Comments: This comes to you via the NYTimes and Tom Barnett whom you have seen me repost before. The anger we are seeing over there results from decades of US behavior. We now live in an internet age, and those folks are discovering what the rest of the world looks like and, like teenagers, …
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Ignore The Deficit Hawks: Social Security Is Easy To Fix
My Comments: Social Security can be a hot button issue from time to time. Proponents of small government decry the socialist trends foisted on this country by Democrats over the years. And while I've been a Democrat all my life, and a proud recipient of checks from the SSA for about six years now, I've …
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Forty Percent of Small Business Owners Don’t Save For Retirement
My Comments: I’m a small business owner and have been for almost forty years. I’m in the business of helping others retire, and I have to confess to you that I’ve done a poor to average job preparing myself for retirement. Fortunately, my health and my profession allow me to continue to work, never mind …
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We Need Your Help!
My Comments: If you follow my writings, you know that I spend time and energy on an idea to help parents of high school age children find free money for their college education. Free money in this sense is money that schools are willing to spend to encourage an applicant they want, to enroll in …
Thought for the Week:
"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale." Zig Ziglar So I asked my clients, "which would you prefer; a plan that has a 70% chance of success or one that has a 90% chance of success?" We had been discussing how to …
5 Crucial Pieces of Retirement Advice for Women
My Comments: Many of my clients are widows. They became my clients when their husbands were alive and over the course of time, we are where we are today. Today, I do my best to help them manage their financial lives and provide some measure of assurance about their financial future. Clearly, women live longer …
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How Will the Presidential Election Impact the S&P500?
My Comments: Oceans of ink will be used in the next several weeks as pundits from across the spectrum weigh in on the likelihood of their favorite candidate winnning the White House. My sense of the issue when it comes to investments is that there are forces way beyond the influence, much less control, of …
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