Green Retirement Blog

You Save Green by Going Green!
I’ve created a new Free Retirement Calculator that shows how much you can save by choosing a Green Retirement. Traditional retirement planning calculators overestimate the amount of savings you need for retirement. This new retirement calculator shows how much less you will need to save, if you use Green Retirement […]

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I Want You to Retire!
“It’s not that I’m all work and no play. But there’s just something - make that lots of things - wrong, in general, with retiring at 55, 62 or even 65. I would go so far as to call it profoundly selfish and unpatriotic.” So writes Andrew Yarrow, in the […]

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The trustees for Social Security and Medicare released their annual report, and the news was pessimistic. The Social Security trust fund will start paying out more, than it receives in the year 2017, and will run out of funds entirely in the year 2041. Medicare is in even worse shape. Politicians, and presidential candidates either […]

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In a recession, don’t delay your retirement, accelerate your retirement.
Although it is not yet official, most economists and the public, believe the United States is headed for a recession. Some are predicting the severest recession since the great depression 75 years ago. Home values, and stock market values have already declined, and many Americans are […]

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Do you like Sushi?
Hundreds of thousands of Americans, no one knows the exact number, have chosen to retire overseas. Some are happily retired abroad - others not so happy. Is an overseas retirement for you? Take this quiz and find out if retiring abroad will work for you.
1) I like Sushi, Thai, Mexican, […]

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The Federal Reserve on March 18, 2008, lowered a key interest rate by a dramatic 3/4 percent, the Dow responded by rising over 400 points. Great news for stock market investors. Bad news for retirees whose investments are largely in bonds, treasuries, and money market accounts.
Making matters worse for the retired, and those about to […]

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For most Americans, their house, is their largest retirement asset. One of the biggest questions in retirement planning involves - “What to do about the house?” If you live in your house, it is an asset, that produces negative income. Besides the place where you live, a house is also an investment, […]

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You are in love - you are planning to get married. You have discussed children, where you want to live, religion, your honeymoon, and many other subjects regarding your future lives together. Have you talked about retirement? Do you, and your soon to be spouse, share the same retirement goals?
In romance opposites may attract, when […]

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The cost of health care in retirement is, without a doubt one of the largest concerns, for people planning their retirements. Fidelity Investments released the results of their annual study, and determined that a couple retiring at the age of 65, would require $225,000 in retirement savings to cover the cost of health care. […]

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Retire in San Francisco with less than $400,000 in savings!
The experiment to discover how much savings is required to retire in one of the Top Ten Neighborhoods in the nation, in the second most expensive city in the U.S., is over and the results are illuminating. Retiring in North Beach / Telegraph Hill San […]

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