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You can hedge your assets against underreported inflation and protect your retirement goals.

Inflation at this rate causes serious harm to our nation’s economy and its citizens.

Officially, inflation today is calculated about 4%. Unofficially, it is over 7%.

David Marotta discusses retirement and how to avoid several common pitfalls in planning for the last 30 years of your life.

Certain assumptions such as maximum safe withdrawal rate are critical in order not to compromise a long and successful retirement.

Eight exceptions to the age 59.5 rule allow for penalty-free withdrawals.

You can’t spend money apart from your lifestyle because that’s the definition of lifestyle.

Tax rebate stimulus checks are a cheap and inefficient gimmick.

How to structure your finances to love and respect your spouse.

The subprime mortgage meltdown has cost the world 15% of its market capitalization, about $9 trillion. The primary culprit who caused all of this financial loss, pain and suffering is not the mortgage companies.

Systemic problems in your portfolio will continue even after the markets rebound.

If the federal tax cuts expire, we will have to work an extra week for the government.

A $360,000 investment can remove over $2 million from their taxable estate, savings $900,706 in estate taxes.

It used to be that becoming a millionaire was regarded as a huge achievement. In today’s dollars, however, it is fairly trivial. The new rich is over $5 million.

Investors are fickle. Investing should not be. When your investments go down, even slightly, you may be tempted to make poor choices.