Recently a friend of mine wrote that she’s concerned about her finances. Since we’d never really discussed the subject of her finances in any detail in the past, I wasn’t really aware of how the situation had become a very stressful situation for her. In her note, she had written that one of her biggest […]
Have you noticed, or is it just me, how many servers at restaurants are senior citizens? How about baggers at the local grocery store? Does it seem that more and more people of retirement age are working in the service industry than there used to be? It could just be my perception, but it appears […]
The economic environment seems to be undergoing significant changes, and the baby boomers are on the front lines. For that segment of the population, the outlook is increasingly challenging because there is less time to prepare for whatever’s coming. It is a certainty that we will all need to know how to navigate the road […]
Macroeconomics is a term used to describe the study of large-scale economic systems. The studies are focused on determining how different areas of the economy impact other areas of the economy. Although most of us are not macroeconomists, it is not difficult to perceive that many areas of our national economy are being challenged. Whole […]