Author: Kirk G Meyer

Types of Financial Professionals

What is the right price for financial advice? Well, that depends on what you are looking for and what the qualifications are of the person you seek advice from. And in today’s world, there are an [...]

SALE How the Stock Market Operates SALE

For a week one of my bestselling books on Amazon.com, How the Stock Market Operates, will be on sale in the Kindle format for a week. This will be a Kindle Countdown deal as the book is normally $3.99. [...]

11 Ways to Go Broke in Retirement

In retirement, most people are worried or concerned about outliving their money. While this is a legitimate concern here are eleven ways in which you can go broke in retirement and some solutions to help [...]

Financial Housekeeping Updates

Okay, the new year is well underway, and it may be time for some financial housekeeping. In this post, we will discuss some issues that have been previously covered in prior posts, but I feel that they are [...]

Social Security Analysis

Are you thinking of retirement? If so, you are not alone by any means as at some point we all hope will retire and enjoy our golden years. But what do you do about Social Security and how much do you need [...]

IRA Contributions After Retirement

Are you retired and considering making a contribution to your IRA? This is a question I do see and get from time to time from people approaching retirement or already in their retirement. There is no [...]

2018 Tax Estimates and Their Effect on You

Are you now seeing the “benefits” from the new tax bill in your paychecks? I received my first check that reflects the new tax cuts this past week and the results were not all that impressive to me. [...]

Selling Short vs. Put Options

Last week a reader asked an excellent question that deemed a reply that was more complete than what I could provide in a comment. First, thank you for the question and the opportunity to provide you with [...]

Steps to Take in the Event of a Market Downturn

If you are like many people these days, you are wondering how high the stock market can and will go? Then in the next breath, you wonder when will the market make a correction or worse go into a bear [...]