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• The Great Credit Contraction - Trace Mayer

  Posted on Tuesday January 19th, 2010 at 07:50 pm in featured fractional banking system avoid large losses protect your nest egg fiat money system

  The more I read and learn about how to protect my Nest Egg and avoid large losses, the more I see how the financial professionals try to make us focus on the micro (investments) and not the macro (fiscal, monetary and credit systems) money movements....

• The IMF Wants Your Retirement Nest Egg Now - to SPEND

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 04:33 pm in featured international monetary fund dominique strauss-kahn protect your nest egg special drawing rights

  I was watching a local late night news program the other evening. It was an interview with the Managing Director of the IMF - Dominique Strauss-Kahn - (His eye may not be on the IMF ball What I heard in that interview is nothing short of frightenin...

• Protect Your Nest Egg - Know Your Enemies

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 05:37 pm in education avoid large losses protect your nest egg follow the fed daniel amerman

  I’m talking here to Baby Boomers and older who are relying on their retirement nest egg to live off along with any other income sources not from  a full-time job for the next 20-30 years maybe. In other words people on fixed incomes who need t...

• Are You “C” - The Forgotten Man?

  Posted on Sunday October 4th, 2009 at 11:32 pm in featured the forgotten man protect your nest egg roosevelt's forgotten man

  Sumner’s The Forgotten Man, As soon as A observes which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B and they propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X.  Their law always proposes to determine wha...

• The Coming Financial Ice Age

  Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 08:09 pm in featured protect your nest egg ceo salary caps financial ice age goernment control of banks

  After hearing Bush declare war on terrorism I now see Obama is declaring war on CEOs. This may well usher in a financial ice age. I can feel the chill already. Many new leaders find it helpful to identify a group to vilify in order to rally the peop...

• The Crash Course on The Economy

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 08:14 pm in education economic depression protect your nest egg credit crisis explained

  This is a videoed condensed version of a course given by Chris Martenson called “End of Money”. As stated on his website the Crash Course seeks to “…… provide you with a baseline understanding of the economy so that you ...

• Baby Boomers - Is This Blog Giving You Any Value?

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 02:48 am in featured protect your nest egg buy and hold failed strategy geithner appointment confirmed retirement nest egg destroyed

  I thought it might be a good idea to review the blog and say how it is going. I have been concerned for some time that my blog may well be too narrowly focused. Recently the theme has been almost a mantra - stay in cash, keep cash in the bank, don...

• When will You get Your Nest Egg back?

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 01:13 am in inflation protect your nest egg balanced portfolios out of balance inflation working for you

  The question on many baby boomers lips is, “when will I get my nest egg back?” This is a perfectly reasonable question given that most stock markets have fallen almost 50% since their highs in November 2007. Your friendly financial planne...

• Baby Boomers Nest Egg - Where to from here?

  Posted on Tuesday November 18th, 2008 at 07:43 pm in protect your nest egg control your nest egg control your nest egg in retirement

  I have been taking a few days out to think about what to do now with the blog. I cannot keep talking about all the doom and gloom. The blog was meant to help inform Baby Boomers of the need to protect their nest eggs and take control of it. Events mo...

• Forgive Mortgage Brokers for They Know Not What They Did

  Posted on Wednesday October 22nd, 2008 at 07:54 pm in us housing bubble protect your nest egg control your nest egg flawed financial models technorati tags: mortgage brokers do no wrong

  The Mortgage Brokers of America are trying to tell us they did not realise what was happening. “Forgive them for they know not what they did,” seems appropriate in the circumstances. Seriously though does anyone believe the Mr Quinn, the ...

• Christmas Stock Market Rally possible - so be prepared

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 05:43 am in stop loss protect your nest egg control your nest egg christmas stock market rally

  After all the gloom and doom everyone is hoping the worst is over and the stock markets will start to recover. A Christmas Stock Market Rally is almost becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The point for most Baby Boomers is that it may be a chance to...

• My eBook has Saved Me Thousands of Dollars

  Posted on Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 02:15 am in avoid large losses protect your nest egg control your nest egg flaws of averages in retirement planning mutual funds problems

  I redeemed my retirement nest egg from a WRAP Account manager in November 2007 because of the research I did on the Internet about how retirement funds work and the problems associated with them. My timing was perfect but  I believe I was very lucky...

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 05:16 am in protect your nest egg reliable income stream learn how to protect your retirement funds regulation of the financial markets

  As Charles Dickens opening sentence in the classic “Tale of Two Cities” says when we look back on this market we will say, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. We’ll say it was the worst of times becaus...

• The Danger with Using Percentage Returns in Retirement

  Posted on Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at 05:06 am in avoid large losses protect your nest egg control your nest egg the market always comes back the danger of using percentages

  Not a day goes by when some financial guru tells you to stick with the plan and leave your money alone, even when the markets are tanking. They say you should not worry because this sort of market turmoil happens every 5-7 years. Well hello Mr financ...

• The Myth that House and Stocks Prices Always go up Exposed at last

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 01:29 am in avoid large losses protect your nest egg control your nest egg house prices always go up mutual funds failures

  The great self-funding retirement experiment using the current mutual fund model is over. It was based on the false premise that stocks always go up in the long run. It forgot the periods when it doesn’t. This also holds true for house prices w...

• Julia Gillard Says Not to Worry - That’s a Call to Action to Protect Your Nest Egg

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 02:38 am in stock market crash investment risk economic depression avoid large losses protect your nest egg

  I am actually a fan of Julia Gillard’s and believe she should have been the PM. But as the Acting PM for Australia telling us all not to worry and referring to a June IMF report pre-dating last weeks market gyrations means she is putting the &#...

• My Top Posts For Baby Boomers in or close to Retirement

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 03:48 am in avoid large losses protect your nest egg control your nest egg capital preservations buy and hold strategy

  I had an influx of new visitors to my blog today thanks to Annette Sampson who writes for the Sydney Morning Herald. Annette wrote a great article on Baby Boomers and how taking a large loss on your nest egg in retirement can make it very difficult t...

• $700 Billion Bail Out Reality Check

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 08:21 pm in investment risk freddie mac fanny mae avoid large losses protect your nest egg

  I subscribe to Money and Markets. An emailed newsletter put out by Martin D. Weiss Ph. D.. He has just published a newsletter which should give us all a reality check on the proposed Paulson, Benanke financial bail out. Mr Weiss allows others to publ...

• Time to do the Opposite and Sell into this Bear Market Rally

  Posted on Monday September 22nd, 2008 at 12:24 am in investment risk macquarie bank fooled by randomness avoid large losses protect your nest egg

  Aren’t investment guru’s always telling us to do the opposite of what the public are doing if we want to make money in the markets? Well now is the time to do just that, and to exit the markets if you can. Don’t follow the herd. App...

• Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Returns

  Posted on Saturday September 6th, 2008 at 12:10 am in asset allocation avoid large losses protect your nest egg control your nest egg managed funds benchmark

  The biggest and most effective marketing “con” ever done has been done on Asset Allocation and Diversification being a way of protecting Baby Boomer Retirement Funds. Based on a short 20 Year Bull Market, that may not be repeated in the f...

• Guarantee Your Money - Become Your Own Bank

  Posted on Friday August 29th, 2008 at 03:00 am in avoid large losses protect your nest egg reliable income stream equity indexed annuities predictable retirement income

  It might be worth visiting the web site Guarantee Your Money and its sister site Guarantee My Money because that is what they claim to do. These are not webs sites which are sales pages doing a hard sell. So take a look. Glen Duggins is the CEO of th...

• Baby Boomers - Don’t be Fooled by Randomness

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 12:36 am in investment risk fooled by randomness protect your nest egg avoid large losses in retirement balanced portfolio

  I’m just reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s great book, “Fooled by Randomness”. It’s sub-title is really what is relevant to Baby Boomers and is, “The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”. I love re...

• Variable Annuities are Bad, Bad, Bad!

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 09:05 pm in variable annuity protect your nest egg reliable income stream living benefit variable annuity

  I’m sure you have read or heard that Variable Annuities are bad. Isn’t that what we all hear from the financial press on a regular basis? My last post “Guaranteed Income For Life for Baby Boomers” showed a video of distinguish...