My Comments: There is far more at stake here than making Trump become relevant again. Apart from my personal, visceral fear that we’ll find ourselves in another brutal and painful war, the standard of living across these United States is eroding. Unfortunately, that erosion is like watching a car rust. It can sit in your …
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My Comments: It’s clear from the questions I get that people starting the transition to ‘retirement’ are easily confused by Social Security. They know it’s there; they’ve been paying into it for years. But there are enough variables to paralyze you if you let them. Todd Campbell \ Jun 26, 2017 There's a lot of …
My Comments: There is a lot of fear these days about money. We all know that from time to time the markets experience a correction. Depending on how old you are and when you expect to use the funds you have, this fear is normal. So how do you deal with it? Again, depending on …
My Comments: We are now six months into the Trump presidency. I somehow knew it was going to be a challenge because the values that surround him are so very different from mine. What I didn’t expect was the utter fecklessness, wrapped inside a veneer of patriotism. I now have many more unresolved fears about …
My Comments: I’m NOT a workaholic. But I’ve learned that ‘retirement’ means very different things to people. For many of us, it’s an ugly word. For me it just means doing what I’ve done for decades, but with a recognition that today it takes me two hours to do what I used to do in …
My Comments: Followers of my posts have heard me say that income inequality is the greatest existential threat to our society. It ranks up there with global warming. The path we appear to be on right now, both here in the States and across the planet, will not change until this issue is addressed. It …
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My Comments: In 1983, when Social Security was on the verge of going broke, Congress made some changes to keep it alive and well. It’s again on the verge of going broke and there are ways to fix it. But were not yet close enough to the edge of the cliff for there to be …
My Comments: This doesn’t tell the whole story. But it helps. And, yes, this does have political implications. Make America Great Again is a very complicated matter. What a surprise. And you thought it would be easy and would happen overnight after we drained the swamp. Well... Donald Boudreaux is a senior fellow with the …
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My Comments: Retirement means different things to each of us; it may be when we quit a long career, or we need something less intensive, our current employer sucks, or maybe we simply stop working. If you’ve been disciplined, it’s time to let your money start working for you, always assuming you have some. But …
My Comments: trump famously commented that he had no idea health care reform could be so complicated. There are five principal stakeholders in our health care delivery system: insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, the medical profession, and lastly, we the consuming public. All five have vested interests they want to grow and preserve, and all …
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