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Social Security Administration National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare: Check out “Ask Mary Jane” […]
Coping with Stock Market Losses
This post is from a venture capital investor, but it has good points for most investors. The piece starts with the author being told early in his career that if he didn’t have any losses in his portfolio he wasn’t taking enough risk. Since then, he’s incurred many losses, but he’s still doing well on […]
The Accuracy of Annual Stock Market Forecasts
Each December and January I make fun of the annual forecasts that emerge from the major investment firms. They usually cluster around the 8% to 10% average annual return, the the return in any year rarely is near the long-term average annual return. This article takes stock of how those forecasts are looking some far, […]
Will the Stock Market Reverse Again?
Stock indexes opened 2016 with a steep decline. They reached a bottom on February 11 and rapidly retraced much of their start-of-the-year losses. What’s next. This statistics blog argues that another rapid decline is likely the next move. Take a look at his data and arguments, and see if you agree. In the 25 trading […]
Does the Stock Market accurately predict the Economy?
Media reports usually try to interpret the latest market results by telling us what they mean about the economy or something else. In other words, the market is said to be an information processing machine, and we need only to know how to interpret what it says. Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital disagrees. In his […]
Working With the New Social Security Rules
Plans need to be revised for those who haven’t begun claiming their Social Security retirement benefits. As we covered last month, Congress eliminated a couple of strategies that could increase lifetime benefits for savvy married couples by tens of thou-sands of dollars. Social Security benefits still are an important part of your retirement plan. The […]
The New Social Security Claiming Rules
Congress snuck a major change to Social Security benefits claiming strategies in the latest budget, known as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The change is likely to cost retirees who would have planned carefully tens of thousands of dollars over their lifetimes. The loss is about $50,000 per couple, according to a Bloomberg.com estimate. […]
Social Security, Inflation, and Interest Rates
Many people benefit from delaying their Social Security retirement benefits until at least full retirement age. Delaying until age 70 can be an even better deal. For years I’ve shown people how to calculate the difference using what I call the quick-and-dirty method. The method involves calculating how many years you need to live after […]
