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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 [...]
Are young investors taking the wrong message from the 2008 market meltdown?
Financial experts usually advise young retirement investors to be aggressive, socking away as much money in stocks as possible. But recent investor data suggests that young investors have become very risk averse–no surprise, given lousy market performance over the past decade.
I talked about this trend [...]
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.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?” [...]
