The Retirement Café

I've been working on a research paper with UNC econometrician, Neville Francis for the past year and that has given me the opportunity t...

In a recent post, I discussed inflation's potential impact on your retirement income (see Remember Inflation? ) and I warned against let...

There are a number of ways that a retiree could speculate on the direction of future inflation but I doubt that many would want to. I imagin...

I've noticed lately that our country is highly polarized. No, I'm not referring to social media or cable news. I'm thinking ab...

I love models. I build and research models almost every day and have for almost two decades. For the past year, I have explored online retir...

The first image of a black hole. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al . What do relativity theory, quantum mechanics a...

A good many retirees seem to be enamored with the "Spend Interest and Dividends Only" strategy for spending down their retirement ...

Households who want to pay retirement expenses from an investment portfolio turn to spending rules like the 4% Rule, fixed percentage rule, ...

We have to understand both the nature of plans and the nature of retirement finance before we can build a successful retirement plan. [A v...

Retirement planning is a complex problem we can simplify by first focusing on what matters most. The key is getting the big decisions right....