Early Retirement Blog

The U.S. economy grew at 3.5% in the third quarter of 2009.  The worst recession since the Great Depression is over.  Take a moment to stop looking for a job, spend some of your unemployment money on a bottle of champagne, pop the cork and let’s celebrate! Not buying it? Don’t believe the recession is [...]

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Happy Halloween! Would you like a retirement trick or treat? If you use traditional retirement planning – you are in for a trick.   If you use Green Retirement – then you are in for a treat! Traditional retirement planning tricks you into working longer than necessary.   The formula used by almost all financial [...]

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In 101 nations around the world, in groups large and small, people are gathering holding signs and forming human signs spelling out the number 350, in an attempt to gain media attention and to put pressure on their governments to sign the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Treaty. The number 350 represents the sustainable limit of   [...]

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Who knew? A whole week, not just a day, has been set aside by the U.S. Government to celebrate saving for retirement.   This is National Save For Retirement Week! Congressional Representatives Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) and  Sam Johnson (R-TX)  introduced H. Res.  662 on  July 20, 2009, which was duly passed by the House, declaring [...]

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Why is the dollar collapsing?   How does it affect you and your retirement? The reason the dollar is collapsing is very simple, it’s basic economics, the law of supply and demand. The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury are “printing” more dollars, while investors are purchasing fewer dollars, causing the value of the dollar [...]

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The Dow hit 10,000, while the dollar collapses, and unemployment reaches 10 percent – it’s not a coincidence.   Unemployment and the collapsing dollar are the two principal reasons why the Dow Jones 30 has risen 50% from it’s low in March. Artificially low interest rates, and investment bank speculation, have also played a significant [...]

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President Obama announced that he will be asking Congress to approve one time $250 payments to go out to 50 million retired seniors who will not be receiving a Social Security COLA increase next year.   “Even as we seek to bring about recovery, we must act on behalf of those hardest hit by this [...]

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Get Out of Debt and Retire Early! Paying off your debt is one of the best investments you can make. Every extra dollar you use to pay off a 13% credit card debt is the equivalent of earning a guanteed return of 13%   Paying off your debt is one way to earn high returns [...]

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