The Retirement Café

My last couple of posts, beginning with The Mortgage is Dead; Long Live the Reverse Mortgage , have extolled the virtues of the improved FHA...

I was recently contacted by Northwestern University MBA student, Jared Scharen, about writing a guest post for his eRetirements blog . The f...

Jim Dean is a HECM loan originator who contributed a great deal to my first two posts on reverse mortgages. I asked Jim to pen the followin...

In my last post, The Mortgage is Dead; Long Live the (Reverse) Mortgage , I wrote about retirement researchers' renewed interest in an i...

The word "mortgage" comes from the Latin mort , meaning death, and "gage", roughly meaning a pledge to repay. (I use t...

Back in the 70's, there was a short-lived comedy called Chico and the Man , starring comedian,  Freddie Prinze . After Prinze's unti...

I recently read a couple of articles on artificial intelligence, one an interview with historian, Yuval Noah Harari , and the other written ...