Tag: 50s

Gen Xers who began their financial independence journeys in their 40s and 50s explain how they’re on pace to meet their early retirement goals

Bill Yount and Jackie Cummings Koski both were late starters in the financial independence movement.Bill Yount BI spoke to three late starters in the financial independence movement. They started to save and invest in their 40s and 50s and set themselves up for early retirement. Their strategies range from safe investments to living minimally to […]

I Retired in My 50s: Here’s My Monthly Budget

cdwheatley / Getty Images/iStockphoto Retiring in your 50s doesn’t require a superpower, a trust fund, or the lottery, but it does require discipline. Since your investments will have less money to compound, you’ll need to contribute more of your own cash each month. Learn more: Retirement Savings: 4 Expenses Retirees Regret Keeping in Their Budgets, According […]

N.C. AG nominee says Trump is being treated like a Black person in the ’50s

Republicans are resorting to ahistorical nonsense in their attempts to shield former President Donald Trump from accountability. Dan Bishop, a North Carolina state representative and GOP nominee for state attorney general, claimed a Manhattan jury finding Trump guilty of 34 felony counts is an injustice on par with what Black people experienced before the civil […]