The Retirement Café

Some time ago, I wrote a piece entitled The Chicken and the Pig explaining how a worker experiences a paradigm shift upon retiring, and ano...

I recently explained to a commenter on my blog that he need not apologize for a “diversion” because we thrive on diversion here at the Retir...

I have always found the history of “sustainable withdrawal rates” (SWR) to be quite interesting (a fact that secures my qualifications as a ...

I've spent the last several weeks working on some interesting portfolio survival research with my son and daughter, so my posts have...

I recently wrote a post entitled, “ Assume Your Social Security Number is Already Out There ”, which was inspired by an article I read sugge...

In my first post on this topic, The Risk of Retiring (or Being Retired) Early , I noted that retiring early means a longer and more expensi...

After my first post on this topic, The Risk of Retiring (or Being Retired) Early , several readers wrote comments about the rewards of retir...

In my first post on this topic, The Risk of Retiring (or Being Retired) Early , I provided some thoughts about the risk of retiring early a...

In my last post, The Risk of Retiring (or Being Retired) Early , I provided some thoughts about the risk of retiring early and perhaps exten...

I’m going to briefly depart from my typical retirement finance post to talk about ID theft and retirees, who are frequent targets of this cr...

Financial journalist, Mark Miller, recently asked me to provide input on a piece he is doing about retiring early . Early retirement is clea...