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25 Apr

Getting Out of Debt Teleseminar!

Get Out of Debt

A Killer "GOOD" Plan In this teleseminar, we will explain a series of practical, proven strategies and techniques that you can use to get out and stay out of debt – faster than you may have thought possible. Resolve today, make a decision, to get your finances completely under control, to pay off all your debts and achieve financial freedom. We have some seriously smart strategies to share with you!

27 Mar

Two-income Couples are Surprisingly Unprepared for Retirement – Here’s Why

Retirement

Marketwatch Opinion: Every time we look at households' preparedness for retirement, we find that two-earner couples are in the worst shape. We generally attribute their status to the fact that one-earner couples receive a Social Security spouse's benefit equal to 50% of the breadwinner's while most two-earner couples do not. A recent study, however, suggests another problem: two-earner couples often do not save enough through their 401(k) plans. Read full...

11 Jan

The Student Debt Crisis: Could It Slow the U.S. Economy?

Student Debt Crisis

That rising student debt is one of the creeping threats of our time is hard to refute. (Per Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania) About 44 million graduates hold student debt, and today’s graduates leave school holding promissory notes worth an average of $37,000, raising concerns that the burden is creating a cascade of pressures compelling many to put off traditional life milestones. The storyline, as it has emerged,...

20 Nov

The Student Loan Debt Crisis is About to Get Worse: The next generation of graduates will include more borrowers who may never be able to repay.

Student Debt Crisis

From Bloomberg: Student loans have seen almost 157 percent in cumulative growth over the last 11 years. By comparison, auto loan debt has grown 52 percent while mortgage and credit-card debt actually fell by about 1 percent, according to a Bloomberg Global Data analysis of federal and private loans. All told, there’s a whopping $1.5 trillion in student loans out there (through the second quarter of 2018), marking the second-largest consumer debt segment in...