As members of the baby boom generation age into retirement — approximately 10,000 Americans turn 65 every day — more and more are relying on pension benefits for their main source of income. Millions of aging teachers, firefighters, sanitation workers, and other state and local government employees depend on the income owed to them through defined benefit pension plans. Such plans require employees to contribute a portion of their salaries to a pool of funds that is invested

Saving for retirement is already difficult. Why make it more so? Carefully, please. Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Saving for retirement can be a perilous endeavor in the U.S., thanks in part to the Trump administration’s moves to weaken safeguards against unscrupulous sellers of financial products. Now Congress is poised to make things worse -- by undermining protections governing the country’s most popular investment vehicle, the 401(k) plan. Named after a once-obs

Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter is “not worried at all” about the current price smash down for precious metals. Holter says, “We live in a world where all liabilities are more than all liabilities in history. "This whole system is going to come down. . . If you see a house burn down, the only thing left is the foundation. That’s the only thing left because the foundation doesn’t burn. That’s what gold and silver are, and that’s what’s going to be left

While all the sky is falling reports are flooding the internet and airwaves, nobody is presenting a real solution for wealth preservation in the coming economic climate. That is, until the ISDA and G47 Marketplace were formed. Under a G47 Global Silver Initiative, we have forged a rubric for a new economic paradigm. An economy where in one may be generously rewarded for their qualified contributions to society according to their skills, service and capital provision to othe

While all the sky is falling reports are flooding the internet and airwaves, nobody is presenting a real solution for wealth preservation in the coming economic climate. That is, until the ISDA and G47 Marketplace were formed. Under a G47 Global Silver Initiative, we have forged a rubric for a new economic paradigm. An economy where in one may be generously rewarded for their qualified contributions to society according to their skills, service and capital provision to othe

If we don’t do something in ten years, 40% of middle-class older workers will be downwardly mobile into retirement poverty – a potential political flash-point and certain human tragedy. Older workers don’t have adequate retirement accounts and Social Security won’t be enough for most retirees to maintain their living standards. The median older worker, age 55-64, has only $15,000 in their retirement account; the middle-class worker has $60,000; and even those in the top 10%

Published by TurthNeverTold on YouTube.com Published by TurthNeverTold on YouTube.com WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL SILVER DOLLAR ASSOCIATION As we are now discovering...there is indication that the U.S. Treasury Mint has frozen the minting of American Silver Eagle coins, and now we explore the divergence between silver and gold ratios. Most people don't invest heavily in silver because of a number of reasons, but mainly the cumbersome nature of amount and weight to preserve

Video was Published on YouTube by Bix Weir | RoadtoRoota What do you think that the U.S. Treasury's freeze on minting American Silver Eagles will do for their value? Why do you think the powers that be, who can manipulate the COMEX that is, would do this? Cui Bono? Who Benefits? How can you benefit from this knowledge? Where can you build a retirement nest-egg with jurisdictional security coupled with cooperative opportunities that create generational cash flow beyond yourse

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) shook the global credit markets last Tuesday. Even Treasury bond investors perceived the BoJ’s tweaks to its monetary policy as a signal that the transition away from extraordinarily accommodative measures may be coming. The BoJ introduced forward guidance and will allow the 10-year government note to trade in a slightly wider band. The central bank didn’t change its plan to purchase assets (quantitative easing) or key interest rates. With core inflati

An alarming number of older Americans are being forced into bankruptcy, as the rate of people 65 and older who have filed has never been higher - at three times what it was in 1991, while the rate of bankruptcies among Americans age 65 and older has more than doubled, according to a new study by the The Bankruptcy Project. Older Americans are increasingly likely to file consumer bankruptcy, and their representation among those in bankruptcy has never been higher. Using data f

There are limits on what the Fed can do when this bubble bursts, as it inevitably will, as surely as night follows day. It's no secret that virtually every pension fund is dead man walking, doomed by central banks' imposition of low yields on safe investments, i.e. Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP). Given that both The Economist and The Wall Street Journal have covered the impossibility of pension funds achieving their expected returns, this reality cannot be a surprise to any