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Social Security is Running Out of Money and What You “Should” Do About It?
Social Security is Running Out of Money and What You “Should” Do About It? “By 2035, the funds of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) in the Social Security Trust fund will be depleted.”[1] “Before Social Security existed, about half of America’s senior citizens lived in poverty” Bernie Sanders The 2019 Annual Report…
Read MoreThree Strategies on How to Protect Your Retirement Nest Egg during this Market Downtown
“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.” – Ben Graham As I write this blog on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 3:10pm CST, the Dow Jones Industrial average ended the trading day down 799.36 points (-3.10%)[i], the S&P 500 Index ended the trading day down by 90.31…
Read MoreOctober Effect. Where Do We Go From Here?
“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”- Mark Twain What a week. What a month so far. October historically has been a notoriously bad month for the market and this October has not…
Read MoreCould Your Mutual Funds “COST” You Your Prosperous Retirement?
“What you don’t know, can hurt you” – John Bradshaw Three years ago, one of my clients called the office and asked if I would review a mutual fund account she opened before I became her advisor that she had concerns about. I inquired about her concerns with the mutual fund account, simply put;…
Read MoreA New Way to Retire Student Loan Debt While Investing For Retirement
“Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.” Ogden Nash If you were parents were like mine there were simple requirements I had growing up which were make good grades, get a scholarship, go to college, graduate and get a good job. That…
Read MoreNike, Kaepernick & Retirement Planning
Nike, Kaepernick & Retirement Planning Do it Now. Sometimes “Later” becomes “Never”. – Anonymous On last week, just days before the start of the NFL’s 2018 season, Nike announced that Colin Kaepernick would be the face of the 30th anniversary “Just Do It” campaign. With Kaepernick still without a quarterback job and a collusion case against…
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