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Anyone know the easiest way to estimate what my SS benefit will be if I retire early (say 60) and then wait until my full retirement age (67) to collect? I have the SS statement estimates, but they all assume that I will be working until I collect - I have enough saved in pre and post tax...

Greetings all. Trying to figure out if its possible for us to retire soon. We are both employed, and both make good money - but are burned out and want to travel; maybe in a year or two - but will need health insurance for about 5 years before medicare kicks in. Don't want to use COBRA...

I never get tired of reading these riches to rags stories... Jennifer Sultan, millionaire tech pioneer, arrested for selling drugs and guns | Mail Online

Question, I have been waiting to receive a K-1 from the executors of my wife's parents estate. I don't believe it will show much income, just the interest that was earned from the date of death until the proceeds were distributed. Unfortunately there is no communication between us and the...

Nothing to do with ER, but thought someone might enjoy a laugh (at someone elses expense)....sometimes you just need to know when to hire a pro.

Allen Iverson Is Broke Despite Making More Than $150 Million During His Career Allen Iverson Is Broke Despite More Than $150 Million In Career Earnings Hard to believe, isn't it? And yet stories like this are not hard to find.

Just did the math on the future value of my retirement savings. Using the last months market performance as a benchmark, and assuming the same going forward, I will have just over $121 Billion dollars by the time I reach age 68....time to do some estate planning I guess. :laugh:

Wife and I Fire'd a while ago, and we are currently both just under 50. My wife has over the years kept a very part-time job (about 6 hours week) in order to stay licensed in her field (health care). As I have posted in bits and pieces on other threads, after having done the exotic travel...

A question please: if you have more than one IRA that you need to make RMD's from, do you need to take it proportionally from each of them, or is it just that the net amount needs to be taken from any of the accounts. We have several, at different firms and need to make some decisions before...

Question: my wife is inheriting 1/5 of her parents IRA who died last year. (Technically speaking, her Dad's estate is the IRA beneficiary and she is getting her 1/5 after it is first rolled to the estate) The broker sent us about 40 pages of forms to fill out in order to setup a beneficiary IRA...

Quick question: My wife is inheriting a small amount of money along with several siblings - everything being divided equally. Being the more financially savvy of us, she would rather I handle a lot of the questions/tasks etc that need to be handled, but the executors of the estate won't deal...

This is all new to me, so looking for some basic "quick hits" type of advice when dealing with an inheritance. The facts: A relative passed away two months ago leaving a modest estate behind - if I had to guess the total estate is worth over 500K, but less than $1M - A modest paid-off house...

I read this article yesterday: How to invest for the debt-bomb explosion Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch , and thought that even I agreed with some of what the guy said, it seemed a bit alarmist to me...I mean, really, buy a farm and prepare for civil unrest? Then I read this article today...

OK, so how do you position yourself for this one if you believe it is true: The demise of the dollar - Business News, Business - The Independent

cbs4.com - Miami Condos Go For A Song At Auction Ouch, thats gotta hurt for all those other folks waiting to sell, or even those that bought last year and aren't.....

Gross: Bush needs to rescue homeowners: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance What do you think? I generally think Bill Gross is a pretty smart guy, but can't figure out his position on this? Wouldn't this just make the problem worse? i.e. bailout the speculators and allowing the bubble to continue?

EMC has been on a tear lately, and luckily I own a bunch already of the stock (and have for several years), but with todays spinoff of VMWare (VMW), at an opening price of $50+ share, and with EMC owning close to 300,000,000 shares, thats close to $15B in market value. EMC's total market value...

Headlines today that the fed is "injecting liquidity" into the banking system...can someone please explain to me exactly what that means, and how it affects things? Injects how? to who? Seems I should understand this more than I do...

OK guys...those of you that live in Hawaii or have traveled there. Next winter (18 months from now), we are tentatively planning on visiting HI for 4 weeks. With a family of 6, we always rent houses and according to cyberrentals.com, there is no shortage of places with enough bedrooms... BUT...

Anyone know of any on-line sources to find out properties that are being foreclosed and/or being auctioned off? or bank-owned and for sale? Most of the sites I have seen are pay only, and some aren't cheap...can't figure out why this info isn't made more widely available, and for free, since...

This is not exactly a stock pick, but it is individual stock question... I've owned a we bit of AMPH for a while...not enough to worry about it even if it went to zero...its been a very slow performer for many years (also very thinly traded) Anyway, today the company announce a secondary stock...

The Blotter I actually beleive this will happen someday, maybe next month, maybe 5 years from now or somewhere in between. Hard to imagine how life will change here in the US if we go thru a multi-year period were 2-3-4-5-10 suicide bombers kill themselves (and crowds of others) everyday for...

All 6 New England states rank in the top 7 spots for quality of care, including Mass (where I am from) at #3. Hawaii ranks highest overall, but middle-of-the-road for quality. The Commonwealth Fund ranked the health-care-system performance of all 50 states and the District of Columbia...

Chemical level too high, yet water rate may rise - Orlando Sentinel : Seminole County News Chemical level too high, yet water rate may rise - Orlando Sentinel : Seminole County News Yikes, almost $300/month for water (and sewer I preseume ). Sometimes I get mad at the almost $8500/year I pay...

Who did Jerrl Falwell blame for 9/11? good riddance...