Sat.Jun 18, 2022

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Paul McCartney at 80 and the Passing of Time

Steve Sanduski

A few weeks ago, on May 2, I saw 79-year-old Paul McCartney in concert in Seattle. It’s hard to describe the feeling of being in Climate Pledge Arena watching him run through more than 30 songs and 60 years of the most celebrated musical career imaginable. At various points during the show, I was overcome with emotion. Music, of course, has a way of doing that.

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Yes, We Need To Fix It

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Alicia Munnell was recently interviewed in Barron's. I enjoy reading her commentary and interviews even if I disagree with her approach to things. She favors increasing the payroll tax to make up the potential shortfall in Social Security that could be coming in 2034 or 2035. By her reckoning, a 3.5% increase is needed. There was no mention on whether that should be applied to everyone or one idea floating out there that it goes up to the current threshold, at $147,000 this year, and then start