Early Retirement Blog

I don’t know exactly when it started, or even where it started, but I can see dead trees.   Wherever I go, I see the rain forests, jungles, redwoods that once existed.   Where people see cows grazing on beautiful rolling green covered hills – I see dead trees. Long after the forests and those [...]

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I haven’t paid much attention to the tea bagging phenomenon, where angry groups gather and like the revolutionaries in Boston Harbor centuries before, demand “No taxation without representation!”   It’s the same sad story of one group of Americans using and fooling another group of Americans into giving up what money they have left. This [...]

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This earth day green calculator demonstrates the positive financial benefit living a green lifestyle has on your financial future.   See how lowering your consumption enables you to save more for retirement and need less savings to retire.   Going green allows you to retire early. Enter an expense into the Green Calculator, and the [...]

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Their have been a lot of retirement propaganda stories in recent years, exhorting the virtues of working past one’s retirement age, such as this recent BusinessWeek story.   The stories that appear in newspapers, magazines, and on t.v., usually have a similar theme.  “Betty retired when she was 55, but quickly got bored, and is [...]

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