Posts Tagged ‘ retirement ’

Forget Retirement And Retirement Savings

May 4th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Retirement is a marketing construct. You've been sold a bill of goods for the last few decades of your life. You've been told that nation-states, democracy and socialism are good. You've been told our monetary system prevents instability. And -- while the government and central banks put your unborn children or ...read more

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Amazing Power

Aug 2nd, 2011 | By | Category: Personal Investing
The budget deal is all but done. Woohoo! Back to spending beyond our means again. Back to buying more iPads. Back to more public work projects. What a huge relief it is to get that silly spending cap out of the way. Or… is it? The deal making its way through congress would provide ...read more

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Never Retire

Mar 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Investing
Before the mid 1950s, there was no “retirement” as we use the term today. A 1950 poll showed most workers aspired to work for as long as possible. Quitting was for the disabled. Life did not offer “twilight years,” two decades of uninterrupted leisure courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Just since ...read more

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Nationalizing Healthcare and Retirements

Mar 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation.” — President James Madison As the United States travels down the long road from the first limited government republic model of our Patriot ...read more

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Prepare Now to Escape Obama’s Retirement Trap

Jan 21st, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
As the United States moves into a new decade of military overreach abroad and national bankruptcy at home, Washington is in a desperate search for more revenue and a solution to the future financing of the trillions in national debt obligations currently held by foreign central banks and investors. Economists, ...read more

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