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Entries from September 2009

Early Retirements Draining Social Security

September 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

You may have seen this headline over the past few days, in your local newspaper or on the web, “Early Retirements Draining Social Security”. It’s a stupid headline that makes no logical sense.   How can you be retiring early if you are eligible Social Security? Apparently, millions of Americans who have been laid-off and [...]

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Have a Hippy Retirement

September 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Can a Hippy Retirement be the secret to an Early Retirement? Could going back to the simple low consumption lifestyle of their hippy youth, be the solution to the retirement disaster, facing the  baby boom generation? When the American Baby Boom generation was getting all groovy 40 years ago, the high-water mark for the American [...]

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Health Care Obamanation

September 8th, 2009 · No Comments

President Obama is due to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress, on the subject of health care this coming Wednesday September 9th, 2009, where he is expected to abandon the public option.   The number one question I get, when I explain how Green Retirement enables people to retire early by calculating [...]

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RV Retirement

September 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Is your RV your retirement home? I’m ignorant when it comes to RV’s, but to me, it seems to make a lot of financial sense to sell your house and use an RV as your retirement home.   Owning an RV is much cheaper than owning a house and more flexible.   No longer like [...]

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Obama’s Retirement Plan

September 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Under the guise of increasing the retirement savings rate of the American people, a noble and necessary goal, President Obama is planning to transfer even more money from the American people to Wall Street. Adding insult to injury, for millions of struggling American workers, President Obama announced his retirement plan to benefit Wall Street on [...]

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Retire Early on Labor Day!

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Retire Early on Labor Day 2010.  Many American workers will be enjoying a day off from work this Labor Day, without realizing that they could call their boss on Tuesday morning, and make everyday a day off from work.   Millions of Americans, who could otherwise be retired, are unnecessarily working. The reason that most [...]

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Should I Rent or Own a Home in Retirement?

September 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Should I rent or a own a home in retirement?   Which makes more financial sense? Common questions that many people ask before they retire. First, as I explained in a previous Early Retirement Blog article, “Should I Retire With A Mortgage?“, you should not retire with a mortgage. Either pay off the mortgage, or [...]

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