If you managed to make it through the recent housing boom without over-extending yourself, you might be in an excellent position to take advantage of a rapidly declining real estate market. Property values are falling quickly and rates on mortgages are still near historical lows. This means that there are properties to be purchased at […]

There is a recent post from itzbig about how boomers are never going to retire. The post is only half-joking with that statement when it describes a developing scenario in which companies are realizing that their current leaders are rapidly reaching the point where workers traditionally have hung up their briefcases. A scramble of sorts […]

If so, I highly recommend checking out 2Young2Retire.com, the web site of authors and retirment experts Marika and Howard Stone (they’re also not too young to blog). I came across an article Howard recently wrote for Bottom Line Personal (subscription required), which is really a sort of glorified advertising publication. But, the article from Howard […]

Recently I have taken notice of the number of seniors that are still working in various jobs, even though most or all would seem to be of “retirement age.” They are working in grocery stores, the post office, accounting firms, and in an array of other jobs covering the spectrum from blue-collar laborer to white-collar […]