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Zusatztext "Their latest [book] offers comprehensive advice on the issues faced by the over-40 set! shared in their typically irreverent! blunt! and highly informative way." -- Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor David Gardner grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm, served in Army Special Forces and earned a Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught college and worked as a reporter and in high tech. He coauthored three programming books for Prentice Hall and wrote dozens of travel articles and many mind-numbing software manuals before happily turning to fiction. His novel The Journalist: A Paranormal Thriller appeared in February 2021 (Encircle Publications). He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Nancy, also a writer. He hikes, bikes, messes with astrophotography, and plays the keyboard with no discernible talent whatsoever. Klappentext With their famous wit, seasoned advice, and impeccable business savvy, the bestselling financial duo explains how to build wealth and security -- and how to afford anything you want when the work is done. The Motley Fool's Money After 40 is for anyone who wants a stable future free from financial anxiety. You will learn how to fortify your portfolio to weather any economic climate and live the life you want regardless of the market's peaks and valleys. Applying the principles of commonsense money management, David and Tom Gardner's goal is to help you determine what you will need and want when you retire and to guide you in creating realistic financial goals. From owning the right size home to affording sufficient health care coverage, from sending kids to college to taking that exotic vacation, The Motley Fool's Money After 40 explains how to: ? Organize your finances to preserve the funds you already have ? Master estate planning ? Determine whether you can turn a hobby into a small business ? Finance your children's education and care for aging parents ? Live a healthy, productive life free from fiscal anxiety Comprehensive and amusing, The Motley Fool's Money After 40 is a one-stop financial guidebook for gilding the golden years. Leseprobe Chapter One: Why Retire? What is precious is never to forget The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. -- Stephen Spender You don't actually want to retire, do you? Why? Just giving up? Or planning to walk away and play with your own toys? Is it that you're trying to get somewhere or trying to escape where you've been? You don't actually want to retire, do you? Listen to what happened to our grandfathers. A Tale of Two Grandfathers Our grandfathers were both accomplished and risk-loving entrepreneurs, one in Pennsylvania, the other in Washington, D.C. Early last century, our Pennsylvania grandfather flew all around the North (occasionally the Great White North) selling saws. He sold his company, the modern-day DeWalt, to AMF in 1949. AMF eventually sold its DeWalt division to Black & Decker, where it remains a treasured brand. He retired at fifty-two. He loved investing and continued to do so successfully but never took another job in his life (he did treat the card game of bridge like a job, becoming a master before he died). Our Washington, D.C., grandfather played football at Georgetown University, started his own insurance company after college, eventually bought a minority ownership in the Washington Senators baseball team (later the Minnesota Twins), and continued to go to the office every day until a...
