USA Today: Hard Times Guide pulls no punches

by Mark on July 20, 2010

USA Today reviewed The Hard Times Guide today, saying the book paints a sobering portrait of the retirement landscape, but “offers ways to build long-term retirement security and boost knowledge on a broad array of topics from money issues, such as 401 (k) plans and managing health care expenses to ways to navigate the 50-plus job market.”

Mark Miller, author of The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work, and Living (Bloomberg Press/Wiley, 223 pages, $16.95), doesn’t sugarcoat it. “The timing couldn’t be worse: The largest generation in our history is approaching retirement age during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,” Miller writes.

Gets your attention. Miller is an expert on aging and retirement, writes the syndicated weekly column, “Retire Smart,” and publishes RetirementRevised.com. It shows in his careful reporting on the ominous subject of retirement. He is diligent about listing detailed notes in each chapter to support facts and figures.

Click here to read the full review in USA Today.

U.S. News: Ways to make money in retirement

by Mark on July 19, 2010

Emily Brandon of U.S. News & Word Report offers suggestions for making extra cash in retirement, and includes one of the key suggestions from The Hard Times Guide — working as an independent entrepreneur:

Put your lifetime of accumulated experience to work by taking on consulting work. “By the time you are in your 50s, you probably know people from a variety of companies based on where you’ve been,” says Mark Miller, publisher of RetirementRevised.com and author of The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work, and Living. “You can go out and do project-based stuff. It is a way to gain flexibility and set you own schedule and work from a home office.”

Click here to read Emily’s full report on generating extra income in retirement.

ElderlawAnswers.com: An intelligent and valuable guide

by Mark on July 18, 2010

ElderlawAnswers.com, a website and network for legal professionals, reviewed The Hard Times Guide recently:
“. . .Miller, a journalist who covers retirement security issues, has written a much-needed manual packed with strategies for achieving a happy and fulfilling retirement despite the dismal economy. . . There’s even a chapter on becoming an entrepreneur after age 50. As Miller points out, this is something about which he has firsthand knowledge. Readers of this intelligent and valuable guide will be among the beneficiaries of Miller’s new career.

Talking Hard Times Retirement on Chicago public television

July 14, 2010

Chicago is blessed with one of the best daily local news and public affairs programs in the country–Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV. Last night, I joined host Phil Ponce to talk about The Hard Times Guide. We covered how working longer helps build long-term retirement security, encore careers, re-building damaged retirement portfolios and how to hire a [...]

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The Book Stall in Winnetka

July 11, 2010

I’ll be talking about The Hard Times Guide and signing copies at The Book Stall in Winnetka, Illinois on Monday July 19th at 7pm.
The Book Stall is a wonderful independent book store here in the Chicago area owned by Roberta Rubin; if you’re in the area, please stop by – it should be a fun [...]

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Chris Farrell on The Hard Times Guide

June 27, 2010

There are no easy solutions to long-term retirement security, but it’s clear that one solution is earning an income past the traditional retirement age, writes economics journalis Chris Farrell in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Farrell is the economics editor for public radio’s Marketplace Money, author of The New Frugality (Bloomsbury Press, 2009), a book on the new [...]

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Watch: Grinnell College seminar on The Hard Times Guide

June 14, 2010

I had the pleasure of offering a seminar on The Hard Times Guide at my Grinnell College reunion (Class of 1976) earlier this month. Grinnell has provided videotape of the session, which featured a lively Q&A with former classmates, including Bill Ferguson, now an economist at Grinnell. Bill and I got into a lively discussion on [...]

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Podcast: The Hard Times Guide

June 14, 2010

I spoke about The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security recently on WSJM radio in southwest Michigan. The program, which focuses on aging and retirement issues, is hosted by David Krock and Michael Lindenmayer. We talked about financial strategies, post-retirement working options, the retirement of  traditional retirement, and more.
Click here to listen to an archived podcast [...]

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Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest

June 14, 2010

Thanks to everyone who came out to hear me talk with Gail Marks Jarvis of the Chicago Tribune about The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security on Saturday at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest.
We had a wonderful crowd, and Gail came prepared with great questions covering everything from retirement saving strategy to working [...]

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Q&A with Manisha Thakor at The Huffington Post

June 7, 2010

I spoke recently with financial literacy advocate Manisha Thakor about The Hard Times Guide, and her edited Q&A is available at The Huffington Post.
Manisha writes:
The most common personal finance question I’m hearing from people of a surprising array of ages is this: “Is it possible for my golden years… to really be golden?” [...]

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