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Posted on December 19, 2017January 29, 2018

The Law of Supply and Demand is a Lie

Forget everything you learned in Economics Class about the Demand Curve and its brother the Supply Curve. Every time you pull into a gasoline station, you are participating in a market that ranges from inefficient to manipulated.

The first fact to consider is that speculation in the oil markets Continue reading “The Law of Supply and Demand is a Lie”

Posted on November 26, 2017January 15, 2018

Why Young People Ignore The “Saving For Retirement” Message. And What To Do About It.

Why would someone in their teens or twenties even bother to think about saving or investing for retirement? And who does bother to think about it anyway?

Well, people who think about saving for retirement are those who Continue reading “Why Young People Ignore The “Saving For Retirement” Message. And What To Do About It.”

Posted on November 21, 2017March 29, 2018

It is Critically Important to Make a Retirement Budget. But it is Utterly Useless.

A Retirement Budget is important because when you leave the steady income of a job you need to know how much money is coming in and how much is going out.

How do you make a retirement budget?

Continue reading “It is Critically Important to Make a Retirement Budget. But it is Utterly Useless.”

Posted on November 16, 2017January 29, 2018

It is impossible to save enough money for retirement.

But is possible to prepare for retirement.

If you want to save enough for retirement, you will never succeed. Instead of saving, the most likely way to succeed is Continue reading “It is impossible to save enough money for retirement.”

Posted on November 14, 2017January 15, 2018

Did I Retire or Did I Just Stop Working?

When I told my last boss I was going to retire, I found myself feeling weird. What is retirement anyway?, I asked myself. To me, the idea of retirement was Continue reading “Did I Retire or Did I Just Stop Working?”

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