Whether you want to leave work at 62, 67, or 72, claiming the retirement benefits you are entitled to by federal law is no casual decision. You will want to consider a few key factors first.
YOU MIGHT SPEND LESS – LATER IN RETIREMENT
A 2019 whitepaper by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) indicates that Americans tend to spend less as they age.
In recent days, we have watched as outraged and frustrated protestors spilled out into the streets of American cities. Across our communities, unhealed wounds have been brought vividly to our attention once again.
Hindsight is 20/20. It’s only human to imagine what it might have been like to turn left instead of right on some fateful day. However, that sort of daydreaming is unhelpful when investing, especially when it leads you to try and time the market.
Washington State appears to be the primary target of recent attacks on the unemployment insurance system across the country.
The Internal Revenue Service knows that many taxpayers have had a stressful spring. So, as you may already be aware, they reset the federal tax deadline. We all have until July 15th to file our 1040 form. July 15th is also the deadline to pay any federal taxes owed for 2019.1
Q1 Quarter’s Recap
If somebody had told you 15 years ago when oil prices were rising above $150 a barrel that oil producers would be paying storage companies to take oil off their hands, what would you have said? For that matter, what would you have said if somebody had told you these things a month ago?
We witnessed an extraordinary move in the financial markets on Monday, March 9.
Back in 1987, right after the markets had experienced the famous “Black Monday” decline which took the Dow Jones Industrial Average down by 22.6%, the weekly Barron’s financial publication featured, on its cover, a suitcase with the frightened eyes of a Wall Street broker peeking out of its dark recesses, and an arm reaching out to wave a white flag.
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