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Grandparents Are Afraid They Simply Won’t Be Able To Retire

By Dennis Miller

Many grandparents are afraid they simply won’t be able to retire – or stay retired – when and how they planned. We can talk about retiring later, taking a part-time job, and cutting back on expenses, but those are only partial solutions. Of the seniors who are still working, very few are [...]

Why So Many Grandparents Are Still Working

by: Dennis Miller

By Dennis Miller

Go into any fast food restaurant or retail store and you’ll find a lot of seniors working for minimum wage. Here’s why.

When personal computers hit the scene, numerous retirement-planning programs quickly became available. You entered your personal financial information, along with yield and inflation projections, and the computer would tell [...]

Can Grandparents Profit from Risks?

by: Dennis Miller

By Dennis Miller Live off the interest, and never touch the principal. Today’s retirees had this drummed into their minds long ago. It is, after all, a laudable goal, and something every retiree and person approaching retirement should aspire to. But how in the heck are we supposed to do it?A friend recently told [...]

How Grandparents Can Put Safety Before Savings

by: Laura Nikolovska

By: Laura Nikolovska

Spring is here and you know what that means; warmer weather, spring cleaning, and… yard sales! Generally speaking, garage sales are a great place to get a good deal on products to use with your grandkids, but they are also a likely place to find dangerous, recalled products. That’s [...]

How Grandparents Can Help Their “Kids” Teach “Their Kids” About Money Smarts

by: John Lanza

by John Lanza

My mom recently sent my daughter a heartfelt, written card with $15 dollars inside. In front of Abraham Lincoln’s face on each of the three five spots was a yellow sticky note. The first read “Share,” the second “Save” and the last “Spend Smart.” Our eight-year-old quickly deposited the money in [...]

The Time is Now for Your Income Plan

by: Dennis Miller

By Dennis Miller

I have a friend who says, “Why make a decision today if it can be put off until tomorrow?”

While that might sound cute, waiting until the transmission on your car is totally broken and having the vehicle towed to a dealer for a trade-in certainly isn’t the optimal way to negotiate [...]

Grandparents, You Can Captain Your Own Retirement Ship

by: Dennis Miller

By Dennis Miller When Kerry Lutz turned off the recorder after interviewing me for the Financial Survival Network a few weeks ago, we started talking about a common challenge we both face: getting an entire generation to wake up and see that we have a real problem. Most seniors and savers readily admit that [...]

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Grandparents Are Afraid They Simply Won’t Be Able To Retire

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