Following are some numbers showing how the U.S. government spends money. These are big numbers, so it’s pretty hard to get any kind of perspective on what they really mean to you personally: U.S. Government Spending U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 Federal...
Fact: It is a fact that our children were not around when Baby Boomers instituted Social Security benefits for all. Baby Boomers made this promise to themselves. Sadly and very soon, our children are going to start waking up to this fact. Why should they pay for...
Remember how many people loaded up their credits cards and then refinanced to pay them off? Then in 2008, the mortgage lending bubble burst and home values dropped, banks went broke, and refinancing came to an end. How did this really hurt our nation? It trained...
Running out of money is one of the biggest worries of retirement. Allianz is a huge financial firm, and they did a survey of a broad spectrum of working Americans in 2015 and found that 77 percent of them feared not having enough money in retirement more than death;...
As I write this post, I feel it important that I be held accountable for what I advise. Many authors just pop-off and do not offer solutions, only problems. I have done this. I don’t mean to short-change the audience, but often I am limited on space or time so I...
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