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Your Retirement and Higher Education: Make the Choice

August 9, 2010

About a month ago, Jessie Rosen, author of 20 Nothings and contributor to a blog of the same name asked the question of her readers: “what if no one’s parents paid for anything after college?”  She writes: “I mean no one’s and anything. As in there would be no trust funds or graduation gifts of a new car [...]

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Crossroad Capitalism: Your Retirement Plans on Hold

July 7, 2010

Alex Raffe suggested that “you seldom sit at a crossroads and know its a crossroad”.  Yves Smith, author of the blog Naked Capitalism and “Econned: How Unenlightened Self-Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism” along with Rob Parenteau, the head of a global financial advisory firm and the editor of The Richebächer Letter think we are [...]

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Financial Planning for Divorce

June 8, 2010

As we all found out about a week ago, the Gores have split up. The news offered a lot of exploration into why a couple would divorce after 40 years of marriage. Now the Gores seem as if they are splitting amicably and Tipper probably won’t be worried about her financial future. But that won’t [...]

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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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What if Everyone Were Right and Wrong?

March 9, 2010

The economy has changed dramatically over the last year or two.  Predictive tools seems to be either too narrow in their focus or too broad in their results. Economists who sought to read between the lines in previous years (before 2008) are now hedging any and all comments to address the possibilities and not the [...]

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