Archive for 'Retirement' Category

Keeping up with… yourself

6 August 2007 by Christopher Suleske

IF you aren’t keeping up with the proverbial Joneses, why not? Read this NYTimes piece and catch up, man! Does bring up a good point, one I’ve made a few times, that a million or two hardly makes one “rich”. My current expenses are such that 5% interest on $1million, after taxes, [...]

Poverty: the wave of the future?

11 July 2006 by Christopher Suleske

What’s the future portend for retirees of the near-term in the United States? An extreme reduction in quality of living, if you read the numbers similarly to Paul Farrell:

OK, let’s stop the charade and admit the truth. Why does America have a zero savings rate? Because America has no savings policy. Period. For more [...]