Think this question over- Does your financial advisor really listen to what you say and does he still today have new ideas to improve...

For having almost 40-years in financial services, it humbles me to admit I have no idea what cryptocurrencies are really about. Bits on a...

I only ask because no one else seems to be taking the possibility seriously. Maybe they are all correct and that buying the dips makes...

A little over two years ago we filled up my wife's SUV and paid 69-cents a gallon. Almost 20-gallons for a little over $13. Well, ok, we...

Last year was a good one for the "stock market". The major stock indexes all had double digit gains. Of course there were some stocks...

With a new President comes new ideas. Whole bunch of ideas being thrown around within the new administration. Ideas like increasing the...

You may have heard of "Income Buckets" before. This proven strategy to generate retirement income often uses three buckets of money- each...

Do you include an annuity or two as a part of your retirement savings? Annuities are a common part of many retirement accounts because...

This is the 25th anniversary of the introduction of a safe money retirement option, the Index Annuity. Here we will look at the...

Let me first say to everyone with an IRA: Nothing about recent changes in tax laws has made your IRA less valuable (or less important) to...

Social Security and some pensions increase the benefit you receive to keep pace with inflation. They call these periodic increases a Cost...

Everyone needs a savings account. For emergencies and for opportunities. The emergency angle gets most of the press. But the opportunity...

The loss of life and the suffering from Covid-19 has been devastating. Hopefully a vaccine will be effective in quickly reducing future...

What an unusual time we live in. It used to be that savers were rewarded for their thrift and borrowers were penalized for their...

Watching a popular financial news channel this morning was an eye-opener. There it was- 0.70%. Less than 1%. That 0.70% was what a...

For years we've been told that there is little inflation in the prices of the goods and services that retirees consume. In a way that...