The million-dollar question is this: do you have at least $1 million in liquid assets to support yourself for the 20-plus years that usually follow retirement? And if not, how can you get started today to get there? Whether you are thirty-five, forty-five, or even fifty-five, widely-respected financial analyst Michael K. Farr outlines the steps necessary to reach this ambitious but achievable goal
in his new book, A Million Is Not Enough: How to Retire with the Money You'll Need
Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton reporting. Michael Farr is president and majority owner of Farr, Miller & Washington, a Washington, D.C.-based Investment firm that manages more than $400 million dollars in assets. He regularly appears on Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE.
Career Protections Annual Layoffs Forecast predicts a 37% increase in companies planning layoffs and reductions in workforce this year.
"This is our worst layoff forecast in the past five years for employees, as corporations appear ready to slash staff and layoff workers." Kirk Nemer
Kirk Nemer, J.D., SPHR
Career Protections Annual 2008 Layoffs Forecast paints an ugly picture of cuts in jobs for this upcoming year. Over 1,375 corporate executives nationwide completed the confidential annual survey regarding workforce reduction plans conducted by the employment law and human resources experts of CareerProtection.com last month (Survey conducted January 2-25, 2008). I read about Career Protection's forecast on Cheezhead and immediatey contacted its president and CEO Kirk Nemer, J.D., SPHR for this interview.
Note To the Next President: "Be Prepared to Lead the Energy War."
Stephen Leeb
"Step back a second and realize in 1999, oil was at ten dollars a barrel. Today, as we sit here,
its about $120.00 a barrel... a twelve-fold increase in cost that has not stopped anyone from using
it." - Dr. Stephen Leeb.
Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio, this is Peter Clayton reporting. Im delighted to have back on the program Dr. Stephen Leeb, Chairman of TCI Enterprises, President, Chairman of Investment Committee of Leeb Capital Management, and Senior Editor of The Complete Investor. We interviewed Dr. Leeb in 2006 regarding his book, The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel, In the book, Dr. Leeb asserts that the U.S. economy is standing on the brink of the biggest crisis in its history. This TPR interview remains one of the most popular we've ever done.
As the fast-growing economies of China and India push global demand for oil beyond production capacity, Americans will experience a permanent energy shortfall far worse than the one in the 1970s.