Healthcare during the senior years, especially the topic of long-term care, has been talked about and analyzed ad nauseam. And from all the research, one thing is clear. If you need long-term care, it will be expensive in both dollars and emotions.
Here are a few of the most recent...
Maybe
it’s your dream—accumulate enough money to retire early and live happily ever
after. You never have to work again and can do whatever you want whenever you
want. That’s the basis of the FIRE Movement—Financial Independence, Retire
Early.
There’s
lots of chatter all over social media about FIRE. Conversation threads run
deep. Online communities search...
Financial attitudes are changing with America’s young adults. For decades, parents have taught their kids that part of proper planning included saving for retirement. Saving could be accomplished with investment accounts, individual retirement accounts or any one of a litany of employer-sponsored retirement plans, including the 401(k). But there’s...
I was having a
conversation about retirement health insurance with an acquaintance of mine who
just retired. He’s a former corporate executive—an analytical person—who’s
always done his homework to avoid as many surprises as possible in the business
world. He’s done the same thing with healthcare and decided that a Medigap
policy is best...
As I sit
here Monday evening with the Dow having closed down 2000 points and the 10-year
Treasury yield around 0.5%, the title of this update seems utterly ridiculous.
With the new coronavirus still spreading and a collapse in oil prices
threatening the entire shale oil industry, recession is now the expected
outcome. Most...
It’s not uncommon to see the flashing lights and hear the blaring siren of an ambulance rushing to someone’s aid or transporting them to the hospital for emergency treatment. And no matter whether the ambulance is operated by a private company or a government entity, they are an important...
