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The Three Horsemen of Your Retirement Apocalypse House Minority Leader John Boehner, in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, revealed a boner of an idea.   Americans need to delay their retirement until age 70 to pay for the war in Afghanistan. “Boehner had praise, however, for Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan and stepped-up drone [...]

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America Speaks,   a Wall Street front group pretending to be a grassroots coalition, will be holding town hall meetings across America to engage concerned citizens on ways to balance the budget. What is America Speaks? America Speaks is a very slick and well organized PR effort,   designed to create the perception, that Americans [...]

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Two years ago, when gold was $800 an ounce, I wrote an article “Is Gold in Your Retirement Portfolio?“, here on the Early Retirement Blog. I mentioned that “Gold tends to perform well, when there are global political and financial crises, and retirement investors should consider including gold as part of their retirement portfolio.” Gold [...]

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