Friday, August 19, 2022

Buffett recommendations for investments in retirement

 

Women are more vulnerable to a retirement income shortfall

When Social Security benefits are cut sometime after 2034, women will be hurt. Women live longer and have greater health expenses than men. Women rely on SS benefits more than men yet because of lower income, receive fewer SS benefits. Fewer women have their own well-funded IRA to supplement their incomes later. Fewer women have employer paid pensions. Women have lost seniority due to child rearing. Finally, women have lost wages over years of suffering the unequal pay gap. Thus, cutting benefits by 25% or so as planned by the current Trust forecast will bring women near poverty straits. Will the male-dominated GOP respond to fix this emergency with new taxes soon so that the Trust has time to accumulate a useful balance? Maybe not. This leaves women workers with the options of working longer, staying married (or with other family), finding more affordable housing/living situation or creating a new income source.

https://www.amazon.com/Ensure-Your-Financial-Health-Wealth/dp/1466388293

 

Is Social Security in your future?

In order to receive our full benefits in the future (2034 and beyond) we need to have more people who pay the FICA tax working. Since fewer children are being raised in the US and fewer immigrants are being allowed in by the GOP, there will be a shortage of workers to pay for future Social Security benefits. In addition, wealthy folks with income over $147,000 are exempt by GOP from paying FICA. So we need to make a change in one of these determinants. Workers and employers already pay their fair share—7.65% each. Congress could save Social Security for us by lifting the exemption. We are at risk to the politics of wealthy Americans maintaining their privilege. Our future may be more like the economies of poor countries—very wealthy owners and very poor workers. Some working people can afford to wait to claim higher benefits. Most working people can’t afford a lump-sum payment for an annuity to replace SS benefits. Most workers (80% by a recent survey) feel they aren’t saving enough (or simply don’t know how to save) for retirement. This leaves workers with the options of working longer, staying married (or with other family), finding more affordable housing/living situation or creating a new income source.

Consider the options: https://www.amazon.com/Maximize-Social-Security-Benefits-Retirement/dp/1495439224

 

Retirement planning—the good, the bad, the ugly

If you have started to think about or talk to your advisor your retirement, that’s good. If your advisor has begun to pitch an annuity, that’s bad. When you have estimated how much income you will have compared to your expenses, that’s when it gets ugly. Most retirees wish they had started saving/investing earlier. Well, that can’t be helped now. You started when you started. What can you do now? Why do advisors push annuities? If you have a large lump sum, annuities can provide a guaranteed income to you (and your advisor). However, many insurers are cautious about guarantees. They have been burned by low interest rates and so limit ‘guaranteed living benefits’. People are living longer so the benefit, that ‘lasts a lifetime,’ may lose HALF its purchasing power in 20 years. If you have kept your money working in equities, you can sustain your current income level for longer than an annuity can. Plus if you or your family has an emergency, you can use your portfolio. Usually you cannot cancel an annuity without a large charge.

Plan for the worst: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Buy-That-Annuity-Guaranteed/dp/1466494573

 

Buffett recommendations for investments in retirement

What is one of the world's greatest investor's retirement advice? Use 2 Vanguard funds for your retirement income. You avoid “high-fee managers” and the high cost of trading.  Warren Buffett's legal will provides for his family by directing that his cash assets be invested in just two Vanguard funds: One will provide cash for the coming year and the other will provide for a sound future. The best way to protect your family's future is to be invested in the stock market: Pure and simple. When you have stock assets, your money compounds at higher rates when your account fees are 0.01-0.05%, not the retail rates of 1.5-3%. You don't have to settle for retail products that are structured to provide a Wall Street firm with higher revenues. The average investor earns just 3.79%, not the 10-12% market rates according to the DALBAR record keeper. A simple plan can save you the pain of retirement income blues. Retirees regret a little saving and planning workout.

Buffett’s simple plan: https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffetts-Vanguard-Funds-Retirement/dp/1496148592

 

 

 

 

 

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracyWe rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Nov 21 2020: Trump plan: US Marshals seize voting machines

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct assault failed: guns & bombs ready

 

Trump engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to stop Biden

 

I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons

 

Trump was “detached from reality”

 

Trump used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless

 

Parscale: “a sitting president asking for civil war.”

 

Trump: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” 

 

GOP fascism: “RINO hunt armed; no bagging limitJ6 comm threat

 

Trump’s Supremes END personal rights & state laws except for weapons WMDs

 

Fascism: GOP to stop women leaving state for abortion

 

It’s not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas

 

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution

 

 

 

How Govt wastes our money:

US executes those who steal "top secret documents" don’t they: Rosenbergs

GOP Sen Paul calling for repeal of Espionage Act: Dems could never get away with that

 

Warrant: Nuclear secrets for Putin Xi or Saudis provides cash for dictator’s next move

Rubio said that Trump was "dangerous": we must not hand him “the nuclear codes”

Trump claimed he returned secrets in June: he did not: FBI found more. ‘Lock him up’

Now Trump claims he “declassified those documents.” But no record: Nuclear declassify

 

We must destroy the FBI,” Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.): GOP’s new fascist theme

 

FBI Justice probes Southern Baptists: clergy sex abuse of most devout: higher authority?

 

Sinema was paid $1 million to kill wealth tax on wealthy and hedge fund managers

 

VA Gov ‘hate’ line: Gestapo-style hate list compiled by Youngkin: “divisive” teaching.

Data from period-tracking and pregnancy apps may be used to prosecute pregnant people.

 

TX school district removes Bible, Ann Frank, etc from library and schools: complaints

VA, FL, PA, AZ restrict book reading: fears whipped by GOP: Gaetz roams girls school

Judge tells DeSantis he can’t forbid us talking about race in biz and education sites.

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

LPL Financial caught not accurately calculating client reserves, inaccurate books: fine

Equifax Confirms It Sent Wrong Scores to Lenders: Ask them to rejigger your score

Hackers used 30 retail accounts pump up microcap stocks then sold making $millions

 

Median house price zooms to $413,500: half above that record level

Steinway Tower skinny: wind sways $88 million upper floor apartment a few feet !!

 

Dirty Apples: Updates recommended after more errors found: even 6S model, iPad 5th

Bad Apples: Your iPhone may soon have more ads

 

RECALL: Capri Sun Wild Cherry Flavored Juice Drink Blend pouches: cleaning solution

RECALL: 4moms MamaRoo Baby Swing and RockaRoo Baby Rocker: strangles kids

BEWARE: anti-choice police seize our internet talk re: women’s health issues: talk softly

Walmart, CVS, Walgreens caught pushing opioid drugs in OH: fine, no jail

 

Book banners banned from reading the books they banned in public: 2 Americas

FL court: 16-year-old not “sufficiently mature to decide” abortion so forced to raise child

Trump tells terrorists to chill; get ready “terrible things are going to happen.”

Trump can’t find a good lawyer: he usually doesn’t pay and his regulars in trouble

Kinzinger: pastors lead people to “equate Donald Trump with the person of Jesus Christ.”

 

Far-right lobbyist now tax-exempt “church”  Trump’s Supremes all ‘church’ members

Trump’s accountant pleads guilty: tax-fraud just like Al Capone mob boss

PA judges caught sending kids to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks: fine, no jail.

 

Jobs

10 Cities Where Rich Out-of-Towners Have Driven up Home Prices

Teach: you don’t even need to know how: just handle violent parents, terrorists, pay

Wage gains for job hoppers hit record high over those who stay

 

LeBron James takes $97 million contract: you could be his body guard?

 

Who owns your account now?

Polio Is Now in NYC's Sewage, Suggesting That the Virus Is Circulating

Monkeypox is now “Clade”: saves monkey discrimination: clade

NAIC passes Pet Insurance Model Act: make sure your follows standards of care

 

J.D. Power T-Mobile, Cricket and Consumer Cellular Highest in Segments

Paint sale: Sherwin Williams Coupons 

It’s your money: Losses from crypto hacks surged 60% to $1.9 billion January to July

 

NASA tests yeast’s biological processes growth, death, DNA damage: our life on mars?

EV Rules change 1/1/23: $7,500 for new electric vehicle buyers

https://signmyrocket.com/ you can send a message to Putin on a bomb: “love from TX”

 

Miracles:

Inflation Reduction Act just passed: what we might accomplish

Panicked parents defund town library to end book reading: outsiders donate to save it.

Judge restored a 2016 moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands overturned by Trump

 

14 blind people had their vision restored and three of them, perfect 20/20 vision

5 Tax Credits in Biden’s New Law: Health, cars, home,

Dog, Missing 2 Months, Found Alive Inside Missouri Cave

 

Scotland become first country in world provide free period products: no rags, paper, etc

FDA: over-the-counter hearing aids available to millions: save $3,000

Start your day with this and you will sing all day! youtube.com/watch?v=I0zNiae3j7k

 

 

 

 

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Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

I don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a particle.

Everything in universe: galaxies to stones made of subatomic energy ‘vibrations’

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving!

There is no TIME at this level because of force fields come and go in all directions. 

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

The electricity we use comes from the field around the wire not from election itself.

 

 

We can apply for Medicare online: https://blog.ssa.gov/apply-for-medicare-online

We can apply for Social Security online: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/

We can apply for health care online: https://www.healthcare.gov/

 

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