Generation X
I’m Concerned With Generation X’s Retirement Goals
Saturday, July 19th, 2008This past week I received an email about a survey that Charles Schwab conducted called Rethinking Retirement. I went to their website and decided to take their survey. At one point in the beginning of their survey it asked “How much money do you think you need to retire?” To come up [...]
Advice For Your Kids – How Would You Answer This Question?
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I received an email earlier today about a new survey that Charles Schwab conducted called Rethinking Retirement (more on this in a follow-up post). On the Rethinking Retirement homepage, there’s a link to take the survey, which I did.
One of the questions towards the end of the survey pertains to parents and [...]
Save For One Year, Retire With $1MM
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Most “retire with one million dollars” articles focus on slow and steady savings over the course of decades. That works of course, and saving regularly is a great habit to get in no matter how much money you have.
But if you’re young enough, with some concerted effort you can save for only [...]
Should Parents Bail Out Their Kids?
Monday, April 28th, 2008NOTE: The reader-submitted question of the day will begin tomorrow morning.
Should Parents Bail Out Their Kids?
That is the title of Liz Pulliam Weston’s article over on MSN Money.
I can’t remember a time when I ever “bailed out” financially by my parents. Sure, they helped me from time-to-time and my wife’s parents helped us [...]
Americans at Work
Monday, April 14th, 2008I am sitting at my desk at work right now, clearly not engaged in productive activity for my employer. I don’t have any pressing deadlines, but there are certainly customers I could be calling, things I could be processing ahead of time, and skills I could be learning that would help me do my [...]
Loving Your Job Is Overrated
Friday, January 11th, 2008The message that you can and should be wildly passionate about and totally fulfilled by your career can unintentionally promote impatience, entitlement, poor work ethic, chronic dissatisfaction, frustration, and even depression. Plus it causes huge amounts of stress.
Do You Know How To Work?
Monday, November 26th, 2007Ben’s basic message is that “while almost everyone I know went to college, very few learned how to actually work — i.e., how to give an honest day’s labor for a paycheck.”
Young People All But Ignore Planning for Retirement
Saturday, May 5th, 2007Though the vast majority of eligible baby boomers participate in their 401(k)s, less than a third of workers 25 and under are contributing to these employer sponsored retirement plans. Even worse, only 4% of young workers are maxing out their workplace retirement plans, according to a recent survey by the tax information service CCH.
Ironically, these [...]
Generation X = Generation Debt?
Monday, December 12th, 2005Here’s an interesting and sad article on MSN Money about Generation X and debt.
Financial Planning for Generation X
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005If you are a member of Generation X, you’re parents are most likely Baby Boomers. Although most Baby Boomers are not financially prepared for retirement a lot of them do at least have some sort of inheritance to look forward to. Chances are, if the Boomers do inherit assets from their parents, they [...]