Tag: baby boomers
Paying off the mortgage frees up a lot of money for other things. The homeowners in one study splurged on big-ticket items. Older homeowners, however, are adding another priority: medications. After a mortgage payoff, workers and retirees ages 50 to 64 spent 50 percent more on prescription drugs in a comparison with households who had…
Early in this new documentary, the director’s message seems to be that retirement finances are messy, elusive, and too complicated for mere mortals to understand. He’s right on all counts. Filmmaker Doug Orchard reminds us in “The Baby Boomer Dilemma: An Exposé on America’s Retirement Experiment” that there are no easy solutions for Social Security,…
