Today is the last day of 2024 – New Year’s Eve. It’s been a second very good year for investment markets and we’ll start seeing tomorrow if we are going to get a “three-peat” performance in 2025. Here are some of the predictions I’ve seen that will impact retiree finances in the New Year … Overall, it’s a pretty positive outlook for the economy & … Continue reading New Year’s Predictions
We are almost 2 weeks into 2024 already. My goal to get financially organized to start the New Year 2024 has already failed miserably. We did our annual ‘Round-Up Day’ a couple weeks ago, rebalanced our portfolio for last year’s gains, but otherwise haven’t done too much, financially speaking. Instead. I’ve goofed off and been playing with public domain Mickey Mouse memes. Reader Bob, a … Continue reading Starting 2024 Strategies …
Count us among the very, very lucky in 2020. Amid the craziness of a deadly pandemic, global race riots (that started in our metro area), and a rancorous Presidential election, we stayed healthy and our retirement nest egg did much better than expected. Last night I went through our year end numbers and updated the spreadsheet I use to track our portfolio. We’ve been enjoying … Continue reading 2020: A Most Unexpected Result
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