Emily Brandon of U.S. News & Word Report offers suggestions for making extra cash in retirement, and includes one of the key suggestions from my book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security – working as an independent entrepreneur: Put your lifetime of accumulated experience to work by taking on consulting work. “By the time you are in [...] [...more]
Chicago is blessed with one of the best daily local news and public affairs programs in the country–Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV. Last night, I joined host Phil Ponce to talk about my new book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security. We covered how working longer helps build long-term retirement security, encore careers, re-building damaged [...] [...more]
I’ll be appearing this evening on Chicago Tonight, the local news and public affairs program on Chicago public television, to talk about The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security. The show airs at 7pm live, and I’ll post video online a bit later this week. [...more]
This is the last of a four-part excerpt from Mark Miller’s new book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security (Bloomberg Press/John Wiley & Sons, June, 2010).< Meet the new boss: you. Many baby boomers intend to keep working past traditional retirement age. Surveys show that about 58 million boomers plan to stay in the [...] [...more]
This is the third of a four-part excerpt from my new book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security (Bloomberg Press/John Wiley & Sons, June, 2010. No matter what changes are made, it’s a sure bet Social Security isn’t going away anytime soon-and it’s 100 percent certain that the program will be one of your [...] [...more]