My Comments: 40 years ago found me selling health insurance policies. I’ve seen how they evolved to where the annual premium increases, as little as ten years ago, would eventually result in collective premiums that exceeded the Gross National Product. That’s ridiculous, and something had to change. Along came ObamaCare and it’s promise to bring …
Continue reading Changes To Health Insurance In A Trump World
My Comments: I want our economy to improve. It needs to improve. There are problems that are an existential threat to the continued welfare and wellbeing of my children and grandchildren. Some of these threats result from the natural evolution of societies across the planet, things like demographics, the improving longevity of our species, and …
Continue reading A Better Economy Under Trump Seems Unlikely
My Comments: My time these days is consumed by holding Social Security Benefits workshops and the resulting strategy sessions held with those who attend these workshops. I’m busier than I’ve been in a long time. What follows are the 5 points made by the author in the referenced article. Some you may already know about, …
Continue reading Don’t Make These 5 Social Security Mistakes
My Comments: Why, you might ask, is this relevant? Here is my answer: If you are retired, or making plans to retire, it could greatly influence the amount of money you have to spend and live on during the next decade. And with Trump promising to cede economic leadership to China by killing the TransPacific …
My Comments: I’ve been talking for several years about income inequality and how it must be reversed if our children and grandchildren are going to avoid rioting in the streets and economic chaos. Recently we’ve seen Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter and now Trump protesters rioting in the streets. The waiting has ended; …
Continue reading It’s the Economic Inequality, Stupid! The Gaping Wound That Led to Trump’s Win
My Comments: For me, the glass is always half full. I try to live today and worry only about the future. I am easily ticked off by those who try to live in the past, or try to re-litigate the arguments of history. It’s a waste of time in a world, that for me, is …
Continue reading The World Is Getting Better and Nobody Knows It
My Comments: As we come to terms, from either perspective, with the idea of Donald Trump for the next four years, it helps to better understand how he won the election, if not the popular vote. This understanding is critical for those of us who are by nature more liberal than those who will be …
Continue reading “I am a Democrat in rural, red-state America. My party abandoned us.”
My Comments: There are changes afoot, and our President Elect seems to have no clue but then Hillary missed it too. In all fairness I didn’t see it either until I read this and it served to crystalize some thoughts I’ve had related to the income inequality so many of us are worried about. Income …
My Comments: Social Security is well named. It provides financial security and because it is so pervasive, it carries a social legitimacy that is hard to argue against. Looking after the elderly has been a social mandate among humans forever. And given that women tend to outlive men, the social needs of women after a …
Continue reading Women Failing To Max Out Social Security Benefits In Retirement
My Comments: Part of me wants to believe the Laws of Physics (and economics) have been reversed, that gravity no longer means ‘what goes up must come down’. The other half says gravity is still here. Wednesday afternoon, right after the election, I got a raucous tweet from someone making fun of my having said …
Continue reading ‘Believe Me, We’re In A Bubble Right Now – A Big, Fat, Ugly Bubble’ – DJT
Helping Define Your Financial Future 