Retirement - What You Need To Know About Retirement Calculators
How retirement planning and retirement spending calculators work and what are some of their flaws. Why figuring out how much money you will...
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With close to 200 episodes of Money For the Rest of Us, this show organizes original episodes by topic such as money, retirement, and other economic and investing themes. Each topic is intro...
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Retirement - Do You Have Enough To Retire
How to estimate how long your assets will last in retirement and the steps you can take to take make them last longer.
Retirement - The Retirement Journey
Why lower retirement spending rates means most retirees will need to work some during their retirement years.
Retirement - Please Save More
Why individuals need to save more for retirement and how to figure out how much more you should save.
Retirement - How Much Can You Spend In Retirement
Why your retirement spending rate should vary over time based on individual and market circumstances.
Retirement - Die Broke
How to deplete most of your assets before you die by using single premium immediate annuities.
Retirement - To Retire Early, Mind the Gap
The simple formula to sustain an early retirement without running out of money.
Retirement - Live Like You're Already Retired
A traditional thirty year retirement will be out of reach for most people. How to live like you are already retired.
Retirement Topics Trailer
A preview of this season's episode on retirement strategy and retirement philosophy.
National Debt: The Debt Ceiling and U.S. Debt Default
What could happen if the U.S. Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling and defaults on U.S. financial obligations.
National Debt: The Most Important Economic Question of Our Time
Why the likelihood of a future fiscal crisis sparked by the national debt depends on whether there is a limited or an unlimited supply of mo...
National Debt: Will Social Security Go Bankrupt?
Why Social Security will not collapse and the four actions government can take to make sure it won't.
National Debt: Where Federal Money Flows
What does the U.S. government spend its money on. Why cutting federal spending and trying to lower the national debt reduces household incom...
National Debt: How Worried Should You Be About It?
Why some nations are at risk of default on their national debt and others are not. Why the U.S. national debt will never be repaid.
National Debt: All Countries Are Insolvent
Why all federal governments are insolvent but investors still line up to buy government debt at low interest rates.
National Debt: Seesaws, Budget Deficits and the National Debt
This was the fourth episode of Money For the Rest of Us and the first attempt at explaining through a metaphor of a seesaw how households, b...
The National Debt - Introduction
Season 2 of Topics will help you become an expert on all aspects the National Debt from how sustainable is it, the debt ceiling, budget defi...
Money - It's Just Money
To what extent is the U.S. dollar used outside of the U.S., what could cause the dollar shortage and would the impact be.
Money - The Story of How Money Started
How money originated thousands of years ago and why our relationship with money is driven by the stories we tell.
Money - How Money Is Created and Destroyed
How federal governments allow banks to create the vast majority of the world's money supply, and why that erodes the value of money over tim...