<strong>Creating a Retirement Income Plan: What to Consider and How to Start</strong>
By: Ashley Camp Effective planning is critical to ensuring that you have a comfortable retirement. But with so many different components and complex financial elements, creating a retirement income plan can take time and effort. In today’s blog post, we will...
Why is it so Hard to Pull the Trigger on Early Retirement?
Guest Post: - Fear of the unknown? - Fear that your money will run out? - Fear of losing the paycheck? - Fear of not having Healthcare? - Fear of what others might think or say? - Fear of losing your career identity?...
Housing Market Indicators 1982
Housing Market 1982 02 Jan 1983, Sun The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) Newspapers.com...
Worried About Your Job? Here’s What To Do
Man, I don't know about you but I'm feeling a major decline in the economy. Hearing from folks all over who got laid off and weren't expecting it. You can see it too in the Personal Consumption Expenditures the Fed reports. It's in the NEGATIVE...
How Young Americans Can Guarantee Financial Success
At night, after the younger kids go to sleep, my wife and I will sit in bed and watch a TV show of some sorts. It’s a tradition as far back as I can remember. (We have recently added a third member in ole Pablo The Dog. ) As we were getting set up...
Japan Is The Future
Let’s look at some charts comparing Japan to the U.S. Maybe there is something we can extrapolate to figure out what might be in store for us, here in the Good Ole U.S.of A. Let’s start with this from TradingEconomics.com about Japan’s GDP growth rate over...
The “Retirement Crisis” is Manufactured BS to Expand Government
I’ve been hearing about this pending “Retirement Crisis” for as long as I can remember. The above is a headline from 1994. If you have a subscription to Newspapers.com you can go back even further to watch the “crisis” develop in front of your very own eyes....
<strong>Preferred Stocks Vs. Corporate Bonds, Which should you choose?</strong>
By Ashley Camp Source: Adobe Free Pictures There are many ways a business can fund its operation. These alternatives include public floating of shares, bank borrowing, franchising, government assistance, corporate bonds, and venture capital. In this article, we’ll...
Vanguard Dividend Growth Vs. Vanguard Wellington Fund Vs. S&P 500
VDIGX vs. VWELX vs. VFINX (Updated Dec. 2022) The news that the Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund(VDIGX) re-opened to new investors escaped me until subscribers on my Youtube channel mentioned it. Generally, I’m an index type-of-guy but I do appreciate a well-run,...