International Forecaster September 2010 (#2) – Gold, Silver, Economy + More
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International Forecaster September 2010 (#2) – Gold, Silver, Economy + More
Decline in ownership of life insurance
Decline in ownership of life insurance
This week an insurance research firm reported that ownership in life insurance has reached a 50-year low, with nearly a third of U.S. households not having a form of this financial protection. As the benefits industry begins Life Insurance Awareness Month in September, Unum (NYSE: UNM) shares the concern that [...]
Start Planning Retirement Today So That You Can Profit Later On
Planning retirement is best done many years before you actually retire. Preferably, fifteen to twenty years before retirement. This will give you the foresight required to be able to live comfortably when you do actually retire. Many people don’t often realize all of the little things that will affect them financially in their future, not [...]
East of Bell, another reason to monitor city hall
East of Bell, another reason to monitor city hall
The desert town of Indio learned a painful lesson from its now-retired city manager. I was never particularly good at math, but as I looked through the contract of former Indio City Manager Glenn Southard, I knew his $300,000-plus salary was not the best part of his [...]
Spain says deficit down sharply through July thanks to austerity, tax hikes
Spain says deficit down sharply through July thanks to austerity, tax hikes
MADRID – Spain says its deficit is down sharply thanks to an unpopular cocktail of tax hikes and other austerity measures — good news for a government fighting to ward off fears it might need a bailout like the one that saved Greece from [...]
First Command Re-Enlists to Sponsor Pre-Game Show on Falcon Football Network
First Command Re-Enlists to Sponsor Pre-Game Show on Falcon Football Network
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Colorado Springs offices of First Command Financial Services, Inc. have signed on again as a sponsor with the Falcon Football Network, marking its second year to fund the pre-game shows for the U.S. Air Force Academy Falcons. The First Command Financial [...]
City, county administrators get big benefits cushions
City, county administrators get big benefits cushions
Oxnard City Manager Ed Sotelo earned about $266,000 in 2009. Or maybe it was about $382,000. It depends what you count. Like many top government administrators, Sotelo receives a bevy of benefits — some taxed and some not — that boosts his actual compensation well beyond what’s reported as [...]
Planning Food Cost For Retirement-How To Achieve The Money You Need To Retire Comfortably On
Many people forget during their retirement planning to plan for each and every expense that will arise during their retirement. This is exactly the reason the vast majority of Americans get to their retirement years and find they don’t have enough money to retire on.
According to the Social security administration, 95% of people will not [...]
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Finance Help: Reassessing Your Retirement Game Plan
The final quarter of the 20th century (especially the second part of this period) has seen the US economy being hit by one of worst phases of recession since the period of Great Depression (in the 1930s). Stock markets have crashed during this period, with an implosion of housing values and rates of returns from [...]