Early Retirement Blog

After a two year investigation, the SEC has finally brought a case against Goldman Sachs, filing fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, for it’s role in the sub-prime mortgage collapse.   Why now? The timing certainly looks suspicious.   Happening three years after the meltdown in the housing market, and just when President Obama struggles to [...]

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Is your employer offering you a voluntary early retirement incentive package (VERIP) to try and avoid layoffs?   Do you want to find out if you can take advantage of your employer’s voluntary early retirement incentive package and retire early? If you visit a traditional financial planner, or try one of the many free online [...]

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A front page article on Yahoo titled “$1 Million Doesn’t Cut it For Retirement”, claims that “A majority of experts now say $1 million is not nearly enough for a truly secure retirement.” The article cites a Scottrade survey of 229 registered investment advisers which found that   “71% don’t believe $1 million is enough [...]

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I am pleased to announce that Green Retirement Planning and Software has been updated and upgraded, making it easier than ever to retire early and save the planet. First, the Green Retirement website has been updated, making it easier to understand how to retire early by going green.   Second, both Green Retirement Planning and [...]

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This ain’t a movie with a happy ending.  Greek workers are in the streets protesting to try and save their retirements.   The Greek government has already announced that the retirement age will be raised from 60 to 63, and has pledged to do whatever it takes, to get their debt levels back to EU [...]

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Mama’s Says The Recession is Over! While economists who couldn’t predict the economic collapse, spend their time studying dubious government data to figure out if the recession is over, I use a much more accurate indicator of economic conditions to make my determination.   The line outside Mama’s Restaurant. Mama’s is a very popular brunch [...]

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Floor of the U.S. Senate What’s the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? Answer: The difference between a whore and a prostitute. The U.S. Senate on March 4th 2010, voted down a bill, that would have given Seniors who will not see any increase in their Social Security benefits this year, a paltry $250 [...]

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The man responsible for creating the calculation for when you can collect Social Security died today at age 97.   Robert Myers worked for FDR and came up with the calculation for the launch of Social Security. He was tasked to figure out, at what age workers could retire and begin collecting Social Security checks, [...]

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Boomers Getting High in Retirement The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 per cent to 2.9 per cent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Full article here. The rise was most dramatic among [...]

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Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich is set to introduce legislation, which would lower the retirement age, in an effort to lower unemployment.  An idea first proposed here on the Green Retirement Blog back in October of 2008. Under the Kucinich plan, the first million workers who choose to participate, would be able to begin receiving [...]

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