Mar
20
2011
Retirement Saving
As a young person in your 20′s, is it better to start Saving For Retirement or pay off debt?
My debt consists of student loans and a mortgage. I contribute to a Retirement Plan with my job, but i work for the government, so there is no matching for my contributions. Should I severly reduce the retirement contribution (or end it) and focus on the debt?
I think you need a good balanced approach. You need to pay off debt as well as increase investments. Not all debt is bad. Your mortgage should be the least of your concerns. It is “good debt” as it is backed by an asset that theoretically will increase in value. The student loan isn’t even that bad because it’s probably at a low interest rate. You should establish a reasonable goal and time frame for paying it off.
Now that being said, I would not put all of my resources into paying off debt. It sounds like the right thing to do, but in reality saving for retirement is as much about how long you save as it it how much you save. Being in the market longer allows you more time to generate interest and compound your wealth. If you put all of your resources into paying off debt, you do lower your liabilities, but you lose the opportunity to accumulate wealth as you do it. In my opinion it is best to do it balanced. If you were deep into credit card debt, I may think otherwise, but if all you have out there are mortgages and student loans, you are really ahead of the game in your 20′s.
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76 Tips For Investing in an Uncertain Economy For Canadians For Dummies $16.12 Protect and strengthen your financial holdings during troubled economic timesWant to make the right investment decisions in an uncertain market? This concise, practical guide gives you 76 smart tips for saving your money and meeting both your short- and long-term financial goals. You’ll see how to safely accumulate wealth, consolidate and protect gains, and make the best investment allocations in troubling times.Get your finances in order — manage debt, assess your insurance, improve your credit score, and create a safety netUnderstand investment vehicles and accounts — from money markets and annuities to mutual and exchange-traded funds to stocks, bonds, commodities, and moreMake effective asset allocation decisions — know your risk tolerance, diversify your holdings, and rebalance your assets Pay less tax on your investments — take advantage of your Tax-Free Savings Account and Registered Retirement and Education Savings Plans, and get the most out of your taxable investmentsSave for retirement — determine how much you’ll need, diversify your holdings, and minimize your portfolio riskTake care of others — help adult children or elderly parents with large expenses and see how to preserve your assets to pass on to your heirsOpen the book and find:76 tips from top independent financial advisorsFocussed strategies for every level of investor that work during the good times and the badGuidance on building a conservative, moderate, or aggressive portfolioWays to reduce your investment risk Advice on rebalancing your assetsTips for acquiring undervalued investmentsMethods to make your money last throughout your retirement, even in the face of economic turmoil |
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9 Steps to Financial Freedom $50.8 New – In this practical guide, a certified financial planner explores the psychological underpinnings of debt-inducing behavior, examines the power of money over both professional and personal choices, and provides tips on money management. Sharing everyday cost-saving recommendations and retirement planning advice, the author emphasizes that financial empowerment translates to all aspects of life. |
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9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worr $5.87 New – From planning for retirement to saving for a child’s education to getting a better grasp on expenses, this breakthrough personal financial book by popular analyst Suze Orman is both a rich source of useful financial advice and a liberating program to end forever the money worries that stand in the way of a more fully satisfying and rewarding life. |
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9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worr $2.99 New – From planning for retirement to saving for a child’s education to getting a better grasp on expenses, this breakthrough personal financial book by popular analyst Suze Orman is both a rich source of useful financial advice and a liberating program to end forever the money worries that stand in the way of a more fully satisfying and rewarding life. |
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9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying $1.88 New – In this practical guide, a certified financial planner explores the psychological underpinnings of debt-inducing behavior, examines the power of money over both professional and personal choices, and provides tips on money management. Sharing everyday cost-saving recommendations and retirement planning advice, the author emphasizes that financial empowerment translates to all aspects of life. |
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9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying $0.99 New – In this practical guide, a certified financial planner explores the psychological underpinnings of debt-inducing behavior, examines the power of money over both professional and personal choices, and provides tips on money management. Sharing everyday cost-saving recommendations and retirement planning advice, the author emphasizes that financial empowerment translates to all aspects of life. |
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A Beginners Guide to Saving For Retirement $6.97 Kurt Kleinmann,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Axel Publishing |
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A Blue Print for Financial Success: Learn How to Play the Game $9.54 New – You CAN Get Out of Debt, Build Wealth, and Live the American Dream If you want to achieve financial stability and independence, you’ve got to have a plan. But what if you don’t know your FICO from a finance charge? Inside this easy-to-understand guidebook are dozens of tips, tricks and techniques you need to know if you want to avoid the shackles of debt, start saving for retirement, and seize your piece of the American Dream. You’ll learn: -How your credit works-and what to do if yours is |
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A Blueprint for Financial Success $12.95 You CAN Get Out of Debt, Build Wealth, and Live the American DreamIf you want to achieve financial stability and independence, you’ve got to have a plan. But what if you don’t know your FICO from a finance charge? Inside this easy-to-understand guidebook are dozens of tips, tricks and techniques you need to know if you want to avoid the shackles of debt, start saving for retirement, and seize your piece of the American Dream. You’ll learn:-How your credit works-and what to do if yours is not in great shape.-Secrets to obtaining a better, higher-paying job.-The way you can earn up to $39,000 a year more than you are now through education-and get it paid for.-How to beat "the debt trap"! Discover the tricks credit-card companies use to snare consumers into a lifetime of debt-and how you can avoid them.-Purchase the car of your dreams, without breaking the bank.-Why renting is a scam-and how to get into a home you can call your very own, even if you don’t think you could qualify.-Much, much more!Whether you’re an Ivy League grad who needs to brush up on some financial basics, or never finished high school and need to get ahead, A Blueprint for Financial Success is the perfect book for you. |
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A Blueprint for Financial Success: Learn How to Play the Game $9.54 Used – You CAN Get Out of Debt, Build Wealth, and Live the American Dream If you want to achieve financial stability and independence, you’ve got to have a plan. But what if you don’t know your FICO from a finance charge? Inside this easy-to-understand guidebook are dozens of tips, tricks and techniques you need to know if you want to avoid the shackles of debt, start saving for retirement, and seize your piece of the American Dream. You’ll learn: -How your credit works-and what to do if yours i |
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track $0.01 Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans’ hard work is rewarded in today’s hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing the “house of labor” — taking unions out of the past and into the twenty-first century. He has spearheaded the campaign against the “Wal-Marting” of jobs and has innovated transformative solutions to the daunting problems facing Americans, from job insecurity to runaway health care costs. In this powerful critique and call-to-arms, he offers a revelatory dissection of the gathering threats to our standard of living — threats that our politicians have failed utterly to address — and he puts forth a bold, unassailable plan for making vital reforms. In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply isn’t working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and quality of life are heating up even more, especially as housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us. Meanwhile, our politicians irresponsibly sidestep the crucial solutions that we so desperately need in order to make sure Americans can |
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track $12 Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans’ hard work is rewarded in today’s hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing the “house of labor” — taking unions out of the past and into the twenty-first century. He has spearheaded the campaign against the “Wal-Marting” of jobs and has innovated transformative solutions to the daunting problems facing Americans, from job insecurity to runaway health care costs. In this powerful critique and call-to-arms, he offers a revelatory dissection of the gathering threats to our standard of living — threats that our politicians have failed utterly to address — and he puts forth a bold, unassailable plan for making vital reforms. In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply isn’t working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and quality of life are heating up even more, especially as housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us. Meanwhile, our politicians irresponsibly sidestep the crucial solutions that we so desperately need in order to make sure Americans can |
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track $9.99 Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans’ hard work is rewarded in today’s hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing the “house of labor” — taking unions out of the past and into the twenty-first century. He has spearheaded the campaign against the “Wal-Marting” of jobs and has innovated transformative solutions to the daunting problems facing Americans, from job insecurity to runaway health care costs. In this powerful critique and call-to-arms, he offers a revelatory dissection of the gathering threats to our standard of living — threats that our politicians have failed utterly to address — and he puts forth a bold, unassailable plan for making vital reforms. In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply isn’t working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and quality of life are heating up even more, especially as housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us. Meanwhile, our politicians irresponsibly sidestep the crucial solutions that we so desperately need in order to make sure Americans can |
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track By Andy Stern $9.99 Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans’ hard work is rewarded in today’s hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing the “house of labor” — taking unions out of the past and into the twenty-first century. He has spearheaded the campaign against the “Wal-Marting” of jobs and has innovated transformative solutions to the daunting problems facing Americans, from job insecurity to runaway health care costs. In this powerful critique and call-to-arms, he offers a revelatory dissection of the gathering threats to our standard of living — threats that our politicians have failed utterly to address — and he puts forth a bold, unassailable plan for making vital reforms.<P>In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply isn’t working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and quality of life are heating up even more, especially as housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us.<P>Meanwhile, our politicians irresponsibly sidestep the crucial solutions that we so desperately need in order to make sure Americans can move into the twenty- |
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A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track By Andy Stern $12 Andy Stern, one of the most visionary leaders in America today, has fought relentlessly to ensure that Americans’ hard work is rewarded in today’s hypercompetitive, globalized world. As the newsmaking president of the fastest-growing, most dynamic union in America, he has led the charge for modernizing the “house of labor” — taking unions out of the past and into the twenty-first century. He has spearheaded the campaign against the “Wal-Marting” of jobs and has innovated transformative solutions to the daunting problems facing Americans, from job insecurity to runaway health care costs. In this powerful critique and call-to-arms, he offers a revelatory dissection of the gathering threats to our standard of living — threats that our politicians have failed utterly to address — and he puts forth a bold, unassailable plan for making vital reforms.<P>In his eye-opening diagnosis that makes the urgency of the threats vividly clear, Stern shows that Americans are contending with the most disruptive economic upheaval in the world economy since the Industrial Revolution. Yet, in the face of this daunting challenge, the American system simply isn’t working well enough for most of us. Stern powerfully portrays how with the pace of globalization relentlessly quickening, the competitive pressures on our jobs and quality of life are heating up even more, especially as housing, health care, and oil prices skyrocket. While CEO salaries soar and business and the wealthy are handed plentiful tax shelters, the incomes of both white-collar and blue-collar workers stagnate, leaving most Americans struggling to pay off ever-escalating debt, instead of saving for retirement. The plain fact is that our system is out of whack, serving the interests of the top sliver of the most wealthy while putting the squeeze on the rest of us.<P>Meanwhile, our politicians irresponsibly sidestep the crucial solutions that we so desperately need in order to make sure Americans can move into the twenty- |
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Advances in the Economics of Aging $0.99 Used – This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth. Specific topics include the effect of labor market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the effect on retirement of the availability of continuation coverage benefits; and the influence of the prospective payment system (PPS) on rising Medicare costs. Also considered are the effects of hea |
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Advances in the Economics of Aging $39 This volume presents innovative research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons: labor market behavior, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth.Specific topics include the effect of labor market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the effect on retirement of the availability of continuation coverage benefits; and the influence of the prospective payment system (PPS) on rising Medicare costs. Also considered are the effects of health and wealth on living arrangement decisions; the incentive effects of employer-provided pension plans; the degree of substitution between 401(k) plans and other employer-provided retirement saving arrangements; and the extent to which housing wealth determines how much the elderly save and consume.Two final studies use simulations that describe the implications of stylized economic models of behavior among the elderly. This timely volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with the economics of aging. |
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Aging Nation $5.85 Deserving poor or greedy geezers ? The debate rages on. In a period of huge government deficits and the impending retirement of some 76 million Baby Boomers, understanding the economic, political, and social issues related to the aging population is paramount. The policy debates have never been more contentious; they range from deciding who should receive limited subsidized housing and medical services to the ongoing battle over saving Social Security and other entitlement programs. If the doom-and-gloomers have their way, the elderly will be put out to pasture, with inadequate health care and financial resources, and a crumbling social welfare infrastructure that will implode under the strain of intergenerational conflict. This book debunks most aging crises put forth by merchants of doom and offers a new policy focus for our nation. In Aging Nation, renowned experts in the field, James Schulz and Robert Binstock, agree that there is considerable cause for concern, but with a variety of sound policies and programs in place and smart individual choices, the elderly can prosper, and a demographic tsunami is not inevitable. Drawing from the most current data, the authors provide in-depth analysis of the nation’s evolving private and public policies on retirement, faltering employer pensions, health care, workplace conditions, and entitlement programs, and consider such timely issues as poverty among the elderly, rejoining the workforce after retirement, Social Security and health care reform, and the rise of the elderly as a powerful political force. Dispelling popular myths and misconceptions that are perpetrated by politicians and pundits alike, they provide a comprehensive andbalanced assessment of these issues and their impact on everyone, old and young. |
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Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America $49.95 With the impending retirement of some 76 million baby boomers in a period of huge government deficits, public anxiety about the social and economic health of an aging nation is widespread. The policy debates are contentious—from deciding who should receive limited subsidized housing and medical services to the ongoing battle over “saving” Social Security and other entitlement programs. Some policy makers and pundits forecast disaster: elderly people will be put out to pasture with inadequate health care and financial resources, and a crumbling social welfare infrastructure will implode under the strain of intergenerational conflict. In Aging Nation, renowned experts James H. Schulz and Robert H. Binstock agree that there is considerable cause for concern but insist that a demographic tsunami is not inevitable. Drawing from the most current data, the authors provide an in-depth analysis of the nation’s evolving private and public policies on retirement, faltering employer pensions, health care, workplace conditions, and entitlement programs. They consider such timely issues as poverty among older people, rejoining the workforce after retirement, Social Security and health care reform, as well as the rise of elderly people as a powerful political force. Dispelling popular myths and misconceptions perpetrated by politicians and pundits, Schulz and Binstock consider the economic, political, and social challenges arising from the aging U.S. population, and present a balanced—and reassuring—assessment of the future. |
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Aging Nation: The Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America $50 With the impending retirement of some 76 million Baby Boomers, understanding the economic, political, and social issues related to the aging population is paramount. If the doom-and-gloomers have their way, the elderly will be put out to pasture, with inadequate health care and financial resources, and a crumbling social welfare system. In Aging Nation, renowed experts in the field, James Schulz and Robert Binstock, agree that there is considerable cause for concern, but with a variety of sound policies and programs in place and smart individual choices, the elderly can prosper, and a demographic tsunami is not inevitable. Drawing from the most current data, the authors provide in-depth analysis of the nation’s evolving private and public policies on retirement, faltering employer pensions, health care, workplace conditions, and entitlement programs, and consider such timely issues as poverty among the elderly, rejoining the workforce after retirement, Social Security and health care reform, and the rise of the elderly as a powerful political force. Dispelling popular myths and misconceptions that are perpetrated by politicians and pundits alike, they provide a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the issues and their impact on everyone, old and young.Deserving poor or greedy geezers? The debate rages on. In a period of huge government deficits and the impending retirement of some 76 million Baby Boomers, understanding the economic, political, and social issues related to the aging population is paramount. The policy debates have never been more contentious; they range from deciding who should receive limited subsidized housing and medical services to the ongoing battle over saving Social Security and other entitlement programs. If the doom-and-gloomers have their way, the elderly will be put out to pasture, with inadequate health care and financial resources, and a crumbling social welfare infrastructure that will implode under the strain of |
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All About Retirement Funds $0.99 Everything You Need to Know About Retirement Funds—from 401(k)s and IRAs to Pension Plans, Social Security, and More! Amidst record-high pension-plan collapses, record-low money market returns, and record-setting stock market tumbles, Americans have never had so many questions about the safety and adequacy of their retirement nest eggs. All About Retirement Funds provides the answers. This long-overdue book covers the features, options, advantages, and disadvantages of each of today’s most popular retirement investing vehicles, telling you what you need to know in straightforward language that you won’t need a finance degree to understand. But more than just explaining types of plans, All About Retirement Funds takes you through every important stage of planning for your retirement in commonsense, practical language—how much money you will need, when and why you will need it, and what you must start doing today to make sure you have it. While it’s true you can’t control everything when saving for retirement, you can control more than you think. Find out what you can do today to start ensuring your long-term financial comfort and stability in All About Retirement Funds. Whether you have already begun to plan for your retirement or are a beginner, look to All About Retirement Funds to learn more about: What you can expect from Social Security Advantages of a Roth IRA How and when to begin withdrawing money from your retirement plan Investing techniques that effectively balance both growth and safety And much more Ellie Williams and Diane Pearl are popular personal finance writers and former partners in MONEYWISE, a personal finance training and education firm. They also have extensive professional experience in both the investment and banking industries. |
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All about Retirement Funds $19.95 Everything You Need to Know About Retirement Funds–from 401(k)s and IRAs to Pension Plans, Social Security, and More!Amidst record-high pension-plan collapses, record-low money market returns, and record-setting stock market tumbles, Americans have never had so many questions about the safety and adequacy of their retirement nest eggs. All About Retirement Funds provides the answers. This long-overdue book covers the features, options, advantages, and disadvantages of each of today’s most popular retirement investing vehicles, telling you what you need to know in straightforward language that you won’t need a finance degree to understand.But more than just explaining types of plans, All About Retirement Funds takes you through every important stage of planning for your retirement in commonsense, practical language–how much money you will need, when and why you will need it, and what you must start doing today to make sure you have it. While it’s true you can’t control everything when saving for retirement, you can control more than you think. Find out what you can do today to start ensuring your long-term financial comfort and stability in All About Retirement Funds. Whether you have already begun to plan for your retirement or are a beginner, look to All About Retirement Funds to learn more about: What you can expect from Social Security Advantages of a Roth IRA How and when to begin withdrawing money from your retirement plan Investing techniques that effectively balance both growth and safety And much more Ellie Williams and Diane Pearl are popular personal finance writers and former partners in MONEYWISE, a personal finance training and education firm.They also have extensive professional experience in both the investment and banking industries. |
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America’s Financial Apocalypse $22.54 For nearly three decades, America has been gradually losing ground to the developed world in many critical areas. The result is that the American standard of living has been in decline for over two decades, with the middle class having been affected the most. Meanwhile, the rich have gotten wealthier and now America is a nation controlled by corporate America. Hidden by two-income households and open access to credit, declining living standards have gone unnoticed by most Americans. Spending beyond one’s means has become the American way of life and is encouraged by the government. In contrast, saving is almost unheard of in America. As a result, this once power nation has changed from the world’s largest creditor to the world’s largest debtor. Decades of over consumption by Americans can only last so long before a day of reckoning occurs. The deflation of the Internet Bubble resulted in the paper loss of over $7 trillion dollars, yet most people seem to have already forgotten the most scandalous charades in U.S. history by Wall Street and corporate America. And now, as the retirement assets of tens of millions of Americans are in question, an even larger number are caught up in the largest real estate bubble in our history. As we enter the two next decades, 76 million baby boomers will retire, most of them in poverty. Thus, the generation that was responsible for creating the greatest bull market in U.S. history may, through no choice of its own, also be the same group that causes an economic meltdown due to decades of government mismanagement, inadequate planning, and overconsumption. During this same time frame, many expect the global oil production is gradually decline due to whatis known as the peak oil theory. Obviously, this has enormous consequences of its own. Today, America is in the final preparatory stages that will lead to a massive economic meltdown resulting in the Next Great Depression, as over 46 million Americans already have no healthcare |
