The Banter Board

There are more and more statistics being released annually about the number of retired persons that we're going to have in our country within the next few years. Of course this has to do with the baby boomers reaching the age of retirement. Many folks retire from their careers at any early age and then take a part-time job doing something else. Most folks enjoy these part-time jobs because it gives them a few extra dollars and it gets them out of the house.

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The media is running stories about how much money we have to have at retirement in order to maintain the lifestyle that we are used to when working. There seem to be many complex formulas that are presented at different seminars that are suppose to help the person know when they have enough money to retire. My husband and I have developed quite simple retirement plans. We started thinking about this and planning for retirement when we were quite young. We are very glad that we did. We listened to some sound advice from a ...Continue reading...

Prices have been rising steadily since Independence. But they have been rising faster during the last ten or fifteen years.

Rising prices called 'inflation' in economics cause worry to the government and hardships to people. Rising prices upset all estimates of income and expenditure made by the government.

Cost of all government projects, plans and administrative expenditure goes on increasing with the rising prices. For example, a dam which is estimated to cost Rs. 100 crores may cost Rs. ...Continue reading...