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On the Radio with Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Posted on January 30, 2012 by petillo — No Comments ↓

Today on the Financial Impact Factor with Paul Petillo, Dave Kittredge and Dave Ng we have as our special guest Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., a company specializing in financial planning software. He is also the author of six books, the most recent “Jimmy Stewart is Dead – Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking.

Professor Kotlikoff is running for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He is seeking the nomination of the advocacy group Americans Elect.

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Retirement Planning: A Cooking Lesson

Posted on January 20, 2012 by petillo — No Comments ↓

There are numerous analogies floating about concerning what retirement is. For each of us it represents something different. Perhaps it is only a dream, distant and more or less unfathomable. For others, it might seem close and still too far enough away to embrace the concept that one day you might actually do something different. And for Baby Boomers, the path is much clearer, the distance much closer and the journey much easier to define.

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Retirement Planning: Is Your Plan to Retire Early on Track?

Posted on December 3, 2011 by petillo — No Comments ↓

Yet dreaming of retirement, as singular as a fingerprint, is something many, if not all of us entertain.

And when we do, we try to balance the harsh realities of now with the opaque hopes that retirement offers. This balance is no easy task. The unknowns are numerous: taxes, inflation, the amount we need to maintain what we see as comfortable. But the dream of retiring early is still possible for more us than we think. So what is a early and what does an early retirement look like?

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