10 Social Security facts to know shares ten basic facts to know about Social Security. Here they are: Workers contribute 6.2% of earned income and employers contibute 6.2%. Benefits are based on 35 highest earning years. Full ret...

Millennials Are On the Rise reports that the 18- 37 age group (also know as Gen Y or Millennials) will be the population group that has more impact than Baby Boomers on the economy. This generation has 86 million people, 7% more than t...

Since my heart surgery, I have made major lifestyle changes. One change is to get at least 30 minutes of cardio exercise for 6 days a week. (Coincidentally, this was similar to one of my new year's resolutions: getting 3 hours of exerc...

Welcome to the one hundred twenty-fifth edition of The Wealth Builder Carnival. The purpose of this carnival is to collect articles from the blogosphere on building, preserving and keeping enough wealth for a comfortable retirement. For ...

Since I am retired, I periodically do a rollover of my company stock from my retirement plan to my traditional IRA. This allows me the additional option of using covered calls while trying sell some of my company stock. A covered call ...

The stock market reached new highs at the Dow crossed 15,000 intraday for the first time and the S&P closed above 1,600 for the first time. This rally continues to be the most unloved stock market advance, as investors are not celebrati...

"Ahhh, this porridge is just right." ~ Goldilocks I'm starting to believe the U.S. economic recovery is "just right." It hasn't been too fast leading to bubbles that would ultimately collapse. It hasn't been too slow leading to a m...

Pensions used to be the mainstay of retirement income. For many companies, pensions were a good retirement option. Only current payments to retirees were an expense, and pensions expenses could be paid by future income instead of curre...

When I attended job interviews during my senior year, I understood that companies were going to judge and evaluate me. Therefore, I wore a suit to all my interviews and was very professional during the session. My biggest mistake was n...

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." ~ Mae West When I first started blogging in 2006, there was a lot of discussion about good versus bad debt. The common thinking was that home mortgage debt, student loan debt and auto deb...