Quick 2014 Summer Update

I just wanted to post a quick update on our situation. We dropped off “Odyssey,” our Beneteau 361, at the Fernandina Beach City Marina the third week of June. Our Annapolis Yacht broker, Tim Wilbricht of Annapolis Yacht Sales, and crew picked up Odyssey and sailed offshore around Cape Hatteras and then up the Chesapeake […]

Answers to Some Early Retirement Questions

I know this will cause much misery (I say with sarcasm), but I am going to start winding down this blog. After all, if retirement planning is truly simple, then there is no need to keep writing a blog about it until the end of time. However, for those of you who are interested or […]

Post #6 – What can you expect from Social Security and Medicare? Part II

I have done a lot of reading and talked to many professional financial planners about what changes may be coming to federal old age entitlement programs as well as private pensions and state government retirement programs. I will provide the general thinking by experts on what may lay ahead for the old age entitlements and […]