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Bob’s Reading List The New Rules of Retirement Robert C. Carlson Editor, Retirement Watch The Age Wave is coming, and it will affect your retirement. Whether you are 40 or 80, you cannot stop the changes. The government cannot stop them either. In this book, Bob Carlson shows what changes are likely to occur, […]
March 2016
March 25, 2016 11:00 a.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I have some exciting news. A revised edition of my book, The New Rules of Retirement, will be published next month. The original edition was published in 2004. In that edition I forecast that the changes in retirement would continue, but I didn’t realize […]
February 2016
February 26, 2016 05:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Next week I’ll be at the MoneyShow Orlando. So, we might not have a Bob’s Journal or it might be issued at something other than the usual time. We’ll have a booth at the MoneyShow where I can meet with members, and I’ll be […]
January 2016
January 29, 2016 05:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Wow! Is the rest of the year going to be as turbulent as January? In 2015 volatility was low and complacency was high. All that turned on a dime when the calendar flipped. Before we turn to the week’s review, I want to remind […]
December 2015
December 28, 2015 11:30 a.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I hope you had a Merry Christmas season and are looking forward to a happy New Year. We didn’t issue a review last week because of the holiday-shortened week. This week’s activities also will be truncated. So I’m issuing this review in the middle […]
November 2015
November 25, 2015 12:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I hope each of you has a great Thanksgiving holiday. The markets will have a short week, and all the data for the week has been issued. So, I’m sending this week’s review early. The Data A week’s worth of data was packed into […]
October 2015
October 30, 2015 04:35 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There definitely are divergences in the global economy, with the U.S. separating itself from most of the rest of the globe. Within the U.S. the manufacturing sector is lagging while the rest of the economy is doing well. I expect these divergences to continue, […]
September 2015
September 25, 2015 04:50 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review This was another volatile and mostly negative week in stock markets. It also was a little confusing. There wasn’t much news to move stock prices, but they moved anyway. But the big news was Fed Chairman Janet Yellin’s Thursday night speech accompanied by a […]
