My Retirement Blog

Category: General

  • Personality Test to Help Plan Retirement

    Trilogy, is offering modern, active adults an online personality assessment that is aimed to provide participants with deeper insight into their personality types and how those relate to where they would like to live. The survey, at www.trilogylifescape.com , is a fun, interactive way to engage baby boomer participants while also giving them an opportunity…

  • New Debt Proposal Would Cut Social Security and Medicare

    A new debt proposal from a fiscal commission appointed by President Barack Obama is proposing deep cuts in federal spending including Social Security and Medicare. The proposal also suggests significantly reducing income tax rates and eliminating practically all tax breaks such as the mortgage interest deduction. The plan also calls for raising the Social Security…

  • Site is Back and Improved

    You may have noticed that the posts disappeared from this site for a couple days last week. I’m not sure how it happened but my database was corrupted and had to be restored. Luckily, my host was able to fix it. If not I would have had to restore it from a rather old backup.…

  • “Retirement Breakthrough” Book Giveaway Winner

    I was recently give a copy of the book, “Retirement Breakthrough: The Safe, Secure Way to Guaranteed Income You Can’t Outlive–in Any Economy” The random winner of my giveaway of the book, Retirement Breakthrough: The Safe, Secure Way to Guaranteed Income You Can’t Outlive–in Any Economy, is Steve. There will not be a giveaway next…

  • “The New Three-Legged Stool” Book Giveaway Winner

    The winner of the book The New Three-Legged Stool: A Tax Efficient Approach to Retirement Planning is Will P. If you didn’t win you will have another chance to win. I will be giving away a different book next week. Thanks to everyone for entering.

  • Book Giveaway: “The New Three-Legged Stool”

    The author of yesterday’s guest post has offered to give away a copy of his book to one lucky reader. If you would like to win a copy of The New Three-Legged Stool: A Tax Efficient Approach to Retirement Planning just leave a comment on this post. The winner will be drawn at random on…

  • Book Giveaway Winner

    The random winner of the book, Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market is Darin. If you didn’t win keep checking back because there will be more contests in the future. I will be…

  • New Thesis Theme Installed

    There were some quirks in the old theme such as the comments link not showing up until after someone left a comment. Since I already useThe Thesis Theme for WordPress on my other blogs I decided to install it here as well. I still have a lot of customization to do but the site looks…

  • Book Giveaway: Why are We So Clueless About the Stock Market?

    This week’s book giveaway is for the book, Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market. The purpose of this book is to help readers understand the basics of stock market investing. Material covered includes…