If there’s one asset class that’s become much more valuable than all of the others, it’s time. It’s finite, making it scarce. It’s fluid, making it difficult to firmly grasp. …
If You Could Time Your Last Dollar With Your Last Breath
I often suggest that good financial planning means we die with money left over. Conversely, that must mean that bad financial planning means we run out of money before we …
Simple Process For Transforming Your New Year
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Do you also keep New Year’s Resolutions? I’ve kept just one in all the years I’ve tried to make them. What is it, you …
First Look Back, Then Ahead [Tax Changes]
This is it. The end of yet another year has arrived. Like every other year before it, 2017 appeared to pass by more quickly than the rest. I can only …
What’s the Deal With Bitcoin?
I’m not going to suggest that being unaware of Bitcoin’s recent craze points to one’s under-rock living situation…but it’s close. The digital cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise in ‘value’ has lead many …
Foodies, Homebodies, and Globetrotters: Which Retiree Are You?
Always on the lookout for new retirement insights, I stumbled upon a 2015 J.P. Morgan study (Spending In Retirement – Roy, Carson) that provided yet another way to view spending patterns …
The Antidote To A Stressful Retirement
You may or may not be aware that I write a quasi-financial column for The Suburban Press called Beyond the Money. In it, I have the opportunity to share thoughts on …
Three Stages of the Typical Retirement
It’s easy to think of retirement as one thing, one phase of life that we all aspire to experience. And why not? After all, retirement is such a stark contrast …
Athletes Have Them, Why Not Retirees Too?
If you read last week’s Weekly (click here if you missed it), you know that I spoke about a retiree’s ‘inner game’, the deep-down motives for or against retiring, as …
Your First Memory of Money?
A few years ago I was talking with a man who was contemplating retirement. He and his wife had worked very hard for a long time and had accumulated considerable …