One of the biggest challenges of early retirement is health care costs. The insurance market has been broken since Obamacare was passed and the ACA cliffs create a big challenge for early retirees. I touched on this idea in an earlier article on planning for ACA penalties in early retirement …
My local school district, Benton Harbor Area Schools, is now running a program to pay all high school kids who sign up $100 per week for perfect attendance for a 10 week period of time. There is a 1 week break in the program during count week, where the school …
America saw an overall expansion of territory as the normal course of business for its entire history from 1776 up until the end of World War 2. During World War 2 we acquired several strategic island chains, but since then the acquisitions have stopped. Now when the President talks of …
We were on track to end 2025 with the majority of our paper assets in traditional IRA/401K accounts. Many years ago I bought into the idea of seeking to pay the least amount of taxes possible, and wore it as a badge of honor that I was able to pay …