3 Ways To Avoid Being Part Of The Upcoming Retirement Crisis
I ran across an interesting article this week from the Boston Globe with another dire warning about retirement in America. It profiles the work of Alicia Munnell, a former top economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston who is now the head of Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research. At the age of 71, […]
‘The US Economy Is Actually Doing Well’
If the last time you heard that “the economy is doing well” and thought to yourself “no way that’s true,” and “the source must be crazy”, then this blog is written for you. I consistently discuss the state of our economy on WSB radio, and here in many of my blog posts. I’ve noted the […]
The Cost of Thanksgiving
At a time of year when big turkeys and big-screen TVs come to mind, I’m blown away by the story of two women who have decided to camp outside of Best Buy in California for 22 days leading up to Black Friday. They are determined to be first in line for the TV deal that […]
The Morbid State of Retirement in America
1 in 5 American’s would rather die than run out of money in retirement and other unsettling retirement findings for the middle class. Wells Fargo released a survey at the end of October that studied “middle-class” American’s feelings on retirement, and the results were shocking. The survey polled just over 1,000 people between the ages […]
