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...substantial percentage of your current salary--adds a nice cushion for early retirement. Pension plans typically pay 1% of salary for every year of service (e.g., if you worked for a company for 20 years, your pension would be 20% of your annual salary), although government and union jobs tend to have much loftier pensions. "But remember that you will earn less pension with an early retirement," Westbrook points out. Plans can pay as much as 35% less if you retire at 50 or 55, vs. 65, Westbrook says. Again, this can vary according to the job you are leaving...
...morning and get right to work on your own," says Bennie Thayer of the National Association for the Self-Employed. "Then you have to ask yourself if you are physically and mentally ready to take on the competition." Entrepreneurs age 50 and over tend to be more successful because they are more mature, more stable financially and better able to judge how much risk they should take, Thayer notes. The downside is that they can be less flexible and find it harder to change work habits...
...like the house, he is a little scary too, a monument to danger. Houses tend to catch fire when people set them on fire, usually out of desperation or carelessness. The same people who build houses destroy them, and then they go on to build another, often a replica of the first. Like many people, I have always looked upon Clinton as a man capable of creating the grandest house on the block, and equally capable of setting it ablaze. He has arson in his blood. After the Gennifer Flowers story broke six years ago, a friend of mine offered...
Such are the questions explored by the show, and an intelligently curated and truly absorbing show it is. But then, this Australian-born critic has a bias. Americans, to the extent that they think about Australia at all, tend to imagine it as the Wild West they began to lose a century ago, but with koalas. Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone...
While Harvard and other universities across the country tend to dismiss rankings such as those published in US News and World Report, which are partially based on opinion, universities take Science Watch's study seriously...