Mayan Calendar and Money: What to do with your finances now that the world moves on?
The Mayan Calendar was in the headlines for at least one week until people started brushing up and realizing that the Mayan Calendar stated nothing of an end of the world. It was merely a restart of the calendar. So now that you know we have more time ahead of ourselves, what will you do [...]
Can I retire early? How much you need to safely retire.
There seems to be a serious movement online of life hackers and aggressive savers in the pursuit of early retirement. This is a great movement and frankly turns the entire consumption driven economy on its head. Most retirement planners and financial pundits on the media advocate saving a miniscule 5 to 10 percent per year [...]
US Manufacturing data; Treading water US still lead manufacturer.
US Manufacturing has remained rather resilient in the last few years and has recovered nicely from the depths of the recession. Some tend to think that manufacturing in the US is somehow gone but the US is still the leading manufacturing country in the world. A good portion of manufacturing requiring large labor forces has [...]