Archive for AIA Newsletter

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 4:01PM

The Lay of the Land

By Dennis Miller Building your nest egg and managing it successfully takes more work than it did six years ago, but it isn’t a Sisyphean task. You can build a portfolio that will last the rest of your life. Waiting for the political class to come to its senses is futile. In…

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 7:26PM

65 Is Not a Magic Number

By Dennis Miller Is retirement really all it’s cracked up to be? The answer depends on where you find yourself financially, emotionally, and health-wise come age 65 or so. When we’re young, we trade time for money and hope to stash away enough of it to later reverse the process…

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 10:31PM

Pension Promises Go Unfulfilled

By Dennis Miller I don’t know which is worse: realizing you cannot keep a promise you made to someone important to you, or being the person who relied on the promise when you grasp that it is not going to be kept. In 1973, I was 33 years old and…

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 6:05PM

Defend Your Life

By Dennis Miller It’s all too easy to get lost in the misinformation and politicking surrounding Obamacare. Dr. Vliet, an independent physician and the past director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (whom I had the good fortune to meet when she spoke at the last Casey Summit)…

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 3:24PM

Ten Pillars of Financial Independence

By Dennis Miller Young folks can usually digest a difficult message more easily when it comes from someone who is not: (a) their parent; (b) their teacher; nor (c) anyone else whose lectures they are sick of hearing. In that spirit, we’re starting out 2014 with 10 ways people of…

Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 11:13PM

How to Profit During High Inflation

By Dennis Miller Anyone with a technical degree will admit that college programmed them to consider “sell” a dirty word—to think salespeople use trickery to lure consumers into buying things they don’t need. It makes no difference whether it’s an investment product or a Pet Rock; anyone involved with selling…