I stayed up late last night to talk about The Hard Times Guide with Steve King and Johnnie Putman, a married duo who host a great overnight program on WGN Radio in Chicago. The interview ranged across a wide array of topics, including what young people need to do to plan for retirement, the importance [...]
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CBS Moneywatch.com blogger Steve Vernon zeroes in on The Hard Times Guide’s chapters on working longer, noting that staying at work past age 65 “is becoming standard retirement planning advice from many financial writers. . .”
One good source of inspiration and information for finding retirement work comes from a great book by Mark Miller: The [...]
The Hard Times Guide is featured as the Book of the Week in the current issue of The Week magazine.
“Mark Miller’s book is spot on when it comes to the new realities of retirement,” the magazine says, quoting Chris Farrell’s earlier review in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Download the review as a PDF.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?” [...]
I talked recently about The Hard Times Guide with Christine Benz, director of personal finance editor at Morningstar.com.
In this video segment, Christine and talk about how working longer can pay off for retirees. You can also view segments on how to manage health care expenses in retirement and post-bubble real estate.
