retirement

Invest or Die Poor

Do I have your attention? Good. This is serious stuff. If you are like the vast majority of Americans, you are primarily responsible for your own financial future. And the deck is stacked against you. In the old days, before the 1990’s or so, it used to be that you got a job, worked there for 20 or 30 or 40 years, retired at 60 or 65 with a nice pension, then lived your remaining lives...

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Are You Still In the Stock Market?

Is your money under your mattress, or buried in the back yard, after losing money, or losing faith, in the stock market? Have you simply “gone to cash”? First was the bursting of the “tech bubble”, and the resulting stock market debacle, that spanned much of 2000 – 2002. From peak to trough that cost investors an average of about 40% of their portfolios. Then after...

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