Early Retirement Blog

Is your mortgage keeping you from retiring? If you have reached the age at which you planned to retire, but can’t, because your house mortgage is underwater, should you walk away from your mortgage and retire? If you bought and financed a home in the past few years, or refinanced an existing home, there is [...]

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The free early retirement calculator, allows you to add in the monthly value of Purdue University’s early retirement offer, and calculate if it will enable you to retire.

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Right now, somewhere in Washington D.C., a plan to rob Social Security is being devised, that would have seniors fight each other over Social Security. Thanks to R.J. Eskrow over at the Huffington Post, word is leaking out from the Obama Budget Deficit Commission to rob your retirement, that “the Deficit Commission is finalizing a [...]

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President Obama’s Budget Deficit Commission is considering cutting  Social Security benefits and raising the retirement age , while the AARP remains virtually silent. Social Security is once again under attack by the Wall Street, and this time, the political party which created and defended the program, is now a willing participant in it’s destruction.  Visit [...]

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The Economic Policy Institute just released an incredibly persuasive article, written by Ross Eisenbrey, which gives 10 excellent reasons why the retirement age should not be raised.  This short article is a must read for anyone interested in countering the arguments made by the Budget Deficit Commission and their Wall Street backers, for why we [...]

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