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Is Gen-X Doomed?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Bloomberg did a survey and found that Generation-X does not feel like it will be "financially prepared for retirement." Anyone closer to the younger edge of Gen-X could probably benefit by cutting expenses now, the impact of that could compound over the next 20+ years as they approach a normal retirement age.

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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

Because of the Internet, and to be honest a damned large dose of privilege due to having two educated parents always available because we were retired before he was even born, he has been able to feed his thirst for knowledge with incredible efficiency. CodeParade – great bits of coding, math, and graphics combined.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And that a bit of that cult, Dick and Ike are both retired now. And I very much get the sense he has no interest in retiring. So I was at Harvard.

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Blogs On A Plane: Special Bonds Are Blowed Up Edition

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Here’s Barron’s and Barron’s telling us definitively to buy bonds and Bloomberg telling us with a little less conviction. Yeah, that sounds pretty good (giving them the benefit of the doubt about the math)… pretty good for an equity. Mark Baker applies the word orthogonal to what I am describing. So it is today with bonds.

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Can Return Stacking With NTSX Work?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Put that extra 33% into plainer vanilla equities you are definitely still increasing your risk, either way you'd be leveraging up not down. The math shows the NTSX/ARBIX/BTAL combo would be down 14.7% Put that extra 33% into a series of lottery ticket stocks then you're really rolling the dice. and that is the number I will assume.

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The Sweet Spot

Mr. Money Mustache

In the big picture, this usually leads to having a “successful” life, because of this basic math: Traditional Success. =. We’re just talking about the old-fashioned, Smiling 1950s Man definition of success. She had more than enough to retire , twenty years ago! Fame definitely has a sweet spot. How much work you do.

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14 Best Recession-Proof Businesses Ideas You Can Try!

Clever Girl Finance

Demand is likely to continue as more and more people in the Boomer generation reach retirement. If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers.

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