My Comments: I think I have a vested interest in how the health care delivery system in our country evolves over the next several years. For one thing, I currently have health issues that I'm dealing with, two, I'm a participant in Medicare, and three, professionally I'm very much involved with a financial issue that …
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My Thoughts on This: This is an issue that is increasingly complicated. In the "old" days, you simply reached a certain age, signed up, and began to get a check. The size of the check was a function of how much you had contributed over the years. Then there was the possibility of starting before …
My Comments: Not talked about much during the recent election campaign but in the back of my mind as I pondered the merits of the GOP vs Dems. The neo-con crowd who were backing Romney were the same people who pushed as hard as anyone to get us into Iraq in 2002-03 and have been …
My Thoughts About This: Years ago, when I became adept at retirement planning, I had a chart that showed the demographic bubble caused by those born shortly after WW II. We talked about is as though it was a pig eaten by a python, where you could see the “bulge” moving back through the python. …
My Thoughts on This: Some of you know that I have put in motion a succession plan to make sure that clients who have come to rely on me for many years are not suddenly left out in the cold in the event that I simply don’t show up for work one day. You’ve heard …
At Schwab Impact, Chuck Schwab talks alternative investments, one benefit of Dodd-Frank and why he’s willing to write a bigger tax check. My Comments: Most of you know that I'm a center left Democrat. I also pretend to be an economist with a reasonable understanding of economics, finance, and how the world of money works. …
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My Comments: This post is directed to those of you who are not now my clients. If you are my client (and/or friend), you know that for me the glass is always half full. It’s the way I’m wired. The target reader of this article are other financial advisors. The author is trying to help …
My Comments: All this in spite of the fact we are in the middle of a secular bear market. One which is likely to take at least three more years and two large sell-offs before we can declare we are now at the start of a secular bull market. The last secular bull market ran …
Continue reading Stock and Bond Funds Appreciate by $1 Trillion in 2012
My Comments: This whole episode is so mindbogglingly stupid that I simply shake my head in dismay. Yes, I know, hormonal activity is not something easily brushed aside, but this is a man with an allegedly iron will whose self discipline is legendary. But, since this is Friday, I’m still exhausted by the recent election, …
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