Green Retirement

A couple of weeks ago, I put out the Green Retirement press release, it posed the question: “What impact will global warming have upon those about to retire?” The answer arrived quickly. Today, comes the announcement of an effort by top scientists, to get the International Commission on Stratigraphy to officially name a new epoch. […]

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The Bush Administration and House Democrats, are fighting a proposal by Senate Democrats, to include 20 million retired Americans in the economic stimulus tax rebate proposal. At the same time that prices for food, energy, and medical care are rising, the Federal Reserve has been cutting interests rates, effectively reducing the incomes of many retirees […]

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Italian is still spoken in the cafes and restaurants of North Beach, a San Francisco neighborhood, rated one of the top ten neighborhoods in the U.S.A. First settled by Italian immigrants in the 1880’s, North Beach has retained it’s European flavor, and is home to many French and Germans, as well as Italians. Nestled in […]

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I had written an article, “Retire Now or Never”, telling Americans that they should retire “now” and not wait for a recession. How they were far wealthier, than they assumed, and that they should take advantage and retire. That article was written before the housing collapse, the stock market collapse, and now the imminent recession.
Now […]

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This evening at a convenience store, the woman in front of me said to the store clerk, “This is the winning lottery ticket - the one that’s going to let me retire - right?” And earlier in the day, while signing up for a blog service, I came across a fellow retirement blogger’s site who […]

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I first read “Your Money or Your Life”, a self-help finance book, about ten years ago. It was instrumental in affirming, my evolution from a consumer to a human, and my desire to leave the rat race and retire. “Your Money or Your Life” did an excellent job of critiquing our culture of consumption, and […]

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I’ve been waiting forever for this announcement. It’s something I’ve always intuitively known, that stress can kill you, and work can cause the stress that kills you. But now a research study has been released, that proves my hunch, and gives you another incentive to retire early.
The team conducted seven surveys over a 12-year period […]

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If the economy enters into a recession, which most economists now predict will happen, what effect will it have on retirements? For people planning their retirement, those about to retire, or who may already be retired? The answer is the same, for retirements as well as the economy, a period of declining wealth.
What can […]

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Today, on the newsstand, one of the leading personal finance and retirement publications, had as the headline for their latest issue - “Retire Rich!” I’ve seen similar headlines, on other personal finance magazines, over the last several months. So, now let’s address the issue of Greed and Retirement. Because your greed, along with fear and […]

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The Consumption Assumption
 
Millions of Americans who could otherwise be retired, continue to work, due to a mis-leading «consumption assumption» method of calculating retirements. According to retirement expert and author Ramsay Mameesh - «The retirement industry uses the assumption, that you will consume, between 70% - 80% of your current earnings annually in retirement, to calculate […]

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