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retirement plan

Investment Analysts: How to Happy Dance

July 6, 2010

There must be a class for it.  ”How to do the happy dance even if your bullish remarks continue to fall short” 101 would be an apt title.  But that would be too easy and too convenient to pin the blame on a college course.  So why are investment analysts still doing the happy dance [...]

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Perhaps a Bit of Advice about Retirement, Poetically

July 5, 2010

Retirement Dreams retirement, the business of settling down to the ebb of life before time pulls out its hands out of nowhere to close its doors on us, one last cold cold setback everybody has to take lying down, and without even the privilege of expressing whether we like it all or not. everything’s too [...]

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Retirement Help from China

June 27, 2010

A recent article from the WSJ suggested that China’s reevaluation of its yuan would save your retirement.  The hardest part to believe, and the article admits it as well. is the fact that China would want to let alone need to.  Dave Kansas suggests in his piece that trying to understand the currency markets, what [...]

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Summer: It’s the little things that can affect Your Retirement

June 25, 2010

John Barrymore once suggested that his only regret in life was that he couldn’t sit in the “audience and watch me”.  Each financial decision we make, because each one of those could have an impact on our retirement plan at some point, should be made from a point just outside of the moment. So Monday [...]

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The Evolution of Retirement: The Seeds of the Future

June 7, 2010

I was discussing the concept of retirement with several people half my age recently. Not only was the concept of little value to them in their current frame of mind, they saw it as a Wall Street notion to sell them something they may or may not need. This made me wonder if the brain [...]

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Is Inflation Worth Worrying About?

May 25, 2010

If the Consumer Price Index suggests that inflation is nothing much to worry about, should we be concerned anyway? Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch’s chief economist thinks the warning signs are there, even if we haven’t noticed them. He suggests that most producers of goods have created the illusion that the cost of their products has remained [...]

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Refinancing Because of Europe

May 24, 2010

It’s okay if you haven’t been paying attention to what is happening in Europe of late. After all, unless you are planning to travel there in the near future, the situation is too far removed from your realm of existence to mean much. If you hadn’t noticed, the euro is worth less than it was [...]

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Does Inflation Matter?

May 16, 2010

Will inflation impact our retirement plan? In all likelihood the answer is yes. But how, is less clear. Inflation impacts us in ways we may not realize. It works its negative effect on the price of our goods although when it comes to indexing the number, some of the more volatile components are not included. [...]

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A Mother’s Day Conversation No One wants to have

May 4, 2010

This weekend, we celebrate mothers everywhere with a special day set aside just for them.  We do all of the required stuff any dutiful child would do: we call, send flowers, make her breakfast, take her out to dinner.  But there is something we could do for her that would be both selfish and selfless. [...]

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Scared, Cajoled, Berated: How to Fund Your Retirement

May 2, 2010

There are numerous ways to prod a person to get busy investing for their retirement future. In the book I am currently writing in conjunction with this site (soon to be available by chapter), I take the more agrumentative tone suggesting that of you know why you aren’t investing, perhaps you will be better equipped [...]

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