Early Retirement Blog

Size Matters I learned something new today in an article on the Huffingtonpost.com, written by venture capitalist Eric Hippeau, that greatly disturbed me.  Your pension fund may have bought the yacht, the “Maltese Falcon” pictured above, and owned by Tom Perkins – partner at the pre-eminent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. How so? Apparently, a [...]

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There are several reasons why you should fire your financial planner. The most obvious reason to fire your financial planner, is because he or she lost half your life savings in the recession, begging the question why ever seek their advice again? The not so obvious reason to fire your financial planner, and do your [...]

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Free Help for Bernie Madoff Victims If you are one of the many victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, I want to offer you some free retirement help, no strings attached. The Green Retirement Website has Free Retirement Calculators that will tell you, how much you can safely spend if you are already retired, [...]

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The formula for calculating retirement savings, used by the vast majority of financial planners and online retirement calculators, not only over estimates your retirement savings needs, by design it turns you into a wage slave. To calculate the amount of savings you need for retirement, traditional retirement planning assumes that you will need to spend [...]

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Update: February 15, 2009 – I just came across a fantastic article on Obama’s plans to raid Social Security, titled “Looting Social Security“,  written by William Greider in The Nation Magazine. Update: February 14, 2009 – Liberal Blogosphere is catching on.  Dean Baker in the Huffingtonpost.com warns readers of Obama’s plans to go after your [...]

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Human Resource managers in corporations, and local and state governments across the nation, are under pressure to conduct mass layoffs. The end result will be millions more unemployed American workers.  Which will then result in negative consumer confidence and less consumption, lower profits and tax revenue, and the need for further layoffs. Layoffs create a [...]

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Why the Rich Love Being Green A surprisingly large number of people, who use our Early Retirement Planning Software, are rich millionaires.   Green Retirement benefits the middle class the most, reducing the savings they need for retirement,  enabling them to achieve their retirement goals. So, why would rich people who don’t have to worry [...]

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