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Join my discussion today with special guest, Michael Merdinger, lead advisor with Financial Strategy Network, LLC located in Chicago. Our discussion centers on the holistic approach to Financial Plan…

Healthcare in the United States is changing. It is my opinion that the changes are not good.There are nearly 500 Billion cuts to Medicare in the health care law as it stands now. Most of those cuts w…

I have asked my special guest, Dwight Mazzone to return and give us more details on the most talked about parts of the new Healthcare Law. The individual mandate to buy Health Insurance, the waivers …

The loss of the family wage earner can be devastating, both emotionally and financially. Social Security helps by providing income for the families of workers who die. In fact, 98 of every 100 childr…

Social Security Disability benefits are available to anyone who meets the minimum eligibility requirements. Working and paid into the system through Social Security payroll taxes. So why is it so dif…

Most people don’t know how long they will live. Most people don’t know if and when they will run out of money. We are being told that the Social Security Trust Fund has $2 Trillion dollars in it and …

The new healthcare law known as “Obamacare” has created a firestorm of criticism, rhetoric, misunderstanding and downright anger. What does all this mean? And, more to the point, how is this going to…

We are facing a disturbing prospect: Americans outliving their retirement income looms large. Financial Planners are well positioned to help Americans with this issue. The population is large and gro…

The recession has helped push women to become more educated about their financial lives, more proactive about in making financial decisions and gain more confidence about their financial futures. But…

President Obama has often reminded us, “Government only steps in when the private sector has failed.” Financial Service professionals are that private sector. They are the people that our citizens lo…

This week’s show is a discussion about the much needed and clearly defined fiduciary standard for all Financial Advisors. This discussion is especially timely early this year as the SEC and Congress …

The marital home is in many cases the family’s most valuable asset. Before the housing crisis, the home pursuant to a divorce was handled in one of three ways. Sell and split the equity, one spouse b…

It’s often said that there are really three parties in a divorce: the husband, the wife and Uncle Sam. Far too many people negotiate and finalize their divorce without taking a proper account of the …

Congress finally got around to renewing the Bush era tax rates so what now. Join me and my guest as we discuss what this all means for individual taxpayers and small business owners. We define rates,…

Today’s show will review events and trends in the markets and the economy in
2010 important to everyone striving to build their financial security, aswell as discuss year-end financial planning advic…

Emotions are running high and the financial issues inherent to every divorce case are often times the ones that are the most overlooked. Once a divorce settlement has been signed, it’s too late to ch…

Circle of Neighbors is a community based organization serving thousands of families for over 25 years with over 30,000 national members. They started with a local group of parents with college bound …

The global economic downturn began fall 2008 and people became concerned for their futures.There were several high profile scams that created a lack of public trust. We, as Financial Planners are not…