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The #1 Reason to Wait To Take Social Security

I Love Social Security! I know, I know, I can't be a right-winger by saying that. But facts are facts, and until Social Security started Americans didn't have a retirement system at all. Hardly anyone talked about retirement planning.  In fact, if...

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Should You Worry About Tariffs?

Will Tariffs Cause a Recession? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know. Oddly, we did have a recession under Sniffy Joe which wasn't caused by tariffs and yet no one wants to talk about that one. It wasn't a "real" recession, we're told. What? Recessions have always and...

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Trump’s Social Security Tax Proposal

Have You Seen This Video? This is where I break down the benefit of the Trump proposal to end taxes on Social Security.  In an odd turn of events, many of my fellow travelers on the right for some reason think this is a bad plan. I don't get it. I thought...

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This is Big…for Me

May 25, 1997 was the last time I ever drank alcohol. And while many of you might be saying "what's the big deal?" well for me it's huge because there is no way on God's green earth, I'd be here if it weren't for this day  Now, that doesn't mean I'd be dead or...

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The Golden Age of Retirement, Eh?

Once again, and I'm gonna hammer this until I die, the idea there is a RETIREMENT CRISIS today relative to the old days is based on one of two things. 1. Complete ignorance of the past and laziness2. a lie As for #1, academics who study this stuff, economists,...

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