Month: January 2017

Retirement is sometimes defined in terms of what one is leaving behind—a career, difficult clients, job stress, the daily commute, the grind. But for retirement to be fully satisfying, according to many experts, one needs to retire to something, not just from something. Defining that “to” and giving it a tryout is what we mean…

The standard monthly Part B premium for Medicare rose about 10% this month, to $134. However, roughly 70% of Medicare beneficiaries will be paying an average premium of just $109. These are the people who have their Medicare premiums deducted from their Social Security benefits each month. They are protected by a “hold harmless” provision…

January 3—After getting off to a very poor start—the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 6.2% in the first five trading days of 2016—stocks overall finished the year well into the black. This was not an outcome that many experts saw coming. Most predicted severe negative economic repercussions when British voters chose to leave the European…