My retired aunt recently moved from Long Island, New York, to Wake Forest, North Carolina. It wasn’t easy. Packing all the furniture and stuff she crammed into her house over the course of 40-plus years and moving it 500 miles south required a lot of work. But thankfully all that work was worth it. No …
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The national debt is up to $20 trillion. To pay that off, the federal government would have to run a $500 billion budget surplus every year for the next 40 years. We are in a shitload of trouble. The answer to this fiscal nightmare is rather straight forward. We got to pay a lot more …
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No, there’s no typo in the title—I really mean signing for your supper. You may already be familiar with the expression “sing for your supper,” which refers to entertainers who perform like trained monkeys in exchange for food. (Before anyone finds fault with my reference, I was a trained monkey, too.) But y’all have seen …
Normal sucks. Normal means spending $100K for a college education that will be little remembered and little used. Normal means walking into a doctor’s office with an ailment and not asking the doctor what he or she will charge to treat that ailment. And normal means amassing debt, tolerating a pointless job, and living paycheck …
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Today we have a guest post from Erith, who blogs at Cracking Retirement. Erith retired at age 56 after spending more than 30 years working in IT in the financial industry. Erith and her husband lived and invested through several financial collapses but still managed their finances well enough to retire early, before their pensions …