My Retirement Blog
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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.…
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“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…
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Book Giveaway: “Retirement Breakthrough”
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” for review. As I usually do I am having a giveaway of the book as well, after the review you can find out how to win your own copy of the book.…
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“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.
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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…
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Tax Deferral – Great While You’re Working, It Stinks in Retirement
The following is a guest post. Come back tomorrow for an associated book giveaway. For years we have been told to defer our income from our working years because we’d be in a lower tax bracket during retirement. That strategy may have worked for people that retired in the last decade. However, if you’re going…
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Book Review: Save Your Retirement
This book is aimed at those who lost a lot of their investments in the recent bear market or who just haven’t saved enough for retirement. I have read a lot of retirement books lately and there are many similarities between most retirement books. This book did have some fresh perspective. They offered advice on…
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The Best Places to Retire Abroad
Forbes recently published an article revealing their picks for the top 12 foreign retirement havens. The countries included in their list are Panama, Italy, Australia, Ireland, France, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, Uruguay, Malta, South Africa, and Ecuador. The most common reason for retiring abroad is to reduce living costs but it seems that many of…
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Book Review: Work Less, Live More
Work Less, Live More: The Way to Semi-Retirement The subtitle of this book is, “The Way to Semi-Retirement” although I read an earlier edition which was subtitled, “The New Way to Retire Early.” From reading the editorial reviews it appears the second edition contains more information for late bloomers and more about health care but…
Got any book recommendations?