Category: Investing for Retirement

Medicare Open Enrollment is October 15 – December 7 and they just announced the 2nd largest rate increase in history. The Medicare Part B premium for 2026 will be $202.90 per month, an increase of $17.90 from 2025. That is a 9.7% increase from the previous year while the Social

Just as I predicted, the Trump administration now has the record for the longest government shutdown in US history. The extension of expiring subsidies for health insurance purchased under the Affordable Care Act is the main conflict. The expiring subsidies will impact 24 million or about 7% of Americans. Because

You can’t always get it right. My theory was that demand for consumer staples would recover in 2025. Stocks like Kraft Heinz and other packaged goods companies would show improving sales as interest rates started dropping. Well, that hasn’t been the case. Kraft beat their earnings estimate again today, but

In late August 2025 I bought 60 shares of IBIT at a price of $62.46 per share. IBIT is the Ishares Bitcoin ETF. About two weeks later, I sold all my shares at $66.86 per share. This gave me a profit of $263.53. My plan was to only hold for

Although we still have two months left in 2025, I decided to compare my monthly credit card bill to last year’s. In 2024, I had three months where I had over $500 on my cc bill. One of those months was when I had to buy a new refrigerator. Since

It seems like every six months we have the threat of a government shutdown. This time I think it will happen on schedule and may possibly be one of the longest in history. For the simple reason that Trump hates Dems and is going to blame the whole thing on