In my free time I regularly read Yahoo finance or the CNN Money articles related to personal finance and retirement. People are told that they need to save as much as possible for retirement, because they will be spending somewhat close to 75% of their pre-retirement incomes per year. In addition to that most so called financial guru’s claim that Social Security and Medicare will be either bankrupt or providing only enough coverage for the elderly that would allow them to enjoy cat food and insufficient health care in retirement. In order for people to be able to retire comfortably in those gloomy future years, they have to save as much as possible and invest it all in the stock market, in order to generate one or two million at the time of their retirement, which would then allow them to withdraw fund during their non-working years.
Submitted: Aug 22, 2008
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Frank
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Here's some good insight regarding the ability to retire financially secure...
http://assetbuilder.com/blogs/scott_burns/archive/2007/07/27/we-re-better-off-than-we-think.aspx
Posted: Aug 24, 2008