** An American Promise **
● A Balanced-Budget Amendment to the Constitution, with appropriate exceptions for times of war and recession.
● A line-item veto, to give the President a fighting chance to eliminate pork and earmarks.
● A limitation on federal spending, to 20% of GDP.-
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** Building A Million Dollar Retirement Portfolio **
Most of the millionaires in the U.S. are small business owners, and their wealth is tied up in their businesses. They drive used, American-made sedans; they live in modest homes in middle-class neighborhoods. Most of them are first-generation wealthy; they did not inherit their wealth, but earned it the hard way, through adding value in a business, or by saving diligently. Source: "The Millionaire Next Door", by Thomas Stanley and William Danko.Have Your Say!
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compound interest Archive
On Savings and Debt
By James Schaefer.
Some years back, at an annual company off-site retreat, a presenter was elaborating on money. He gave many definitions, then asked us to think of money in a slightly different way. Rather than thinking of it as a medium of exchange, he asked us to think of money as...
Read More Taking the Long View
By James Schaefer.
In America nearly everyone has the opportunity to acquire substantial retirement savings; it's simply a matter of applying self discipline (and some common sense) consistently over a very long period of time. Starting at age 22, saving a million dollars -- or more -- in retirement accounts is fairly...
Read More The Safe Withdrawal Rate
By John Lumbard.
The “safe withdrawal rate” is the amount of cash a retired person can withdraw from an IRA or other investment account without someday running out of money. It’s not an easy figure to calculate, because you need to project your investment returns and your cost of living...
Read More Statutory Debt
By James Schaefer.
Corporations, sole proprietorships, unions, and government all share a common mandate to Grow the Franchise.
In the private sector this growth is constrained by the ability to make a profit---while laboring to provide goods or services that have value to others. For them, the cost of money is real,...
Read More An All-Consuming Interest
By John Lumbard
TAX REVENUE of $2.2 TRILLION, and INTEREST COSTS of $1 TRILLION A YEAR.
In my last post I suggested that we shouldn't count the U.S. Treasury bonds held in the Social Security trust fund when talking about the size of the debt. The reason is that we don't have to pay...
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