Posts Tagged ‘Charles Winfrey’
Financial Reminders from Kobe, Nashville Tornado 2020 and Covid-19
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson The first quarter of 2020 has punched us in the gut, heart, and mouth in a way I have never seen in such a short period of time. On January 26, 2020, Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash outside…
Read MoreSocial 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 MoreTiger Woods, The Masters and Your Retirement
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”- Winston Churchill Tiger Woods, The Masters and your Retirement Golf enthusiasts or fans of Tiger Woods, which I am part of the latter, are excited that it…
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 MoreStock Market Jitters Part II
The recent stock market drops are creating jitters for millions of investors. With concerns around rising interest rates, trade policies and higher inflation now is the time to analyze your investment risk. Risk can be defined as possibility of loss or injury. Regarding investing, risk can be defined as the chance an investment’s actual…
Read MoreStock Market Jitters? It’s Time to Analyze Your Risk
“If you take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.”- Carly Fiorina The recent stock market drops are creating jitters for millions of investors. With concerns around rising interest rates, trade policies and higher inflation now is the time to analyze your investment risk. Risk can be defined as possibility…
Read MoreWhat Does Your Love Letter Say to Your Family?
“A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.”- Myrtle Reed I heard one theologian say, “The Bible is God’s “love letter” to us, telling us not only that He loves us, but showing us what He has done to demonstrate His love.” The same way God has…
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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