I took my dog Larry to the vet yesterday. The clinic doesn't usually take appointments, so it's first come, first served after the lunch break. Larry and I had a long wait - I left the house about 1:30 and didn't get home until 5:15. Larry showed his displeasure of having had to wait by peeing on the examination room floor while waiting for the vet. However, while waiting I ran into someone I hadn't seen in years. Her father and my father were high school classmates. Her father had a dairy farm and my father would pheasant hunt his farm every Thanksgiving. We had a nice time reminiscing on "the Group W bench".
The financial seminar in the morning was pretty informative. Some of the facts and figures were taken from the Government, so I always question those, but I think he was telling us in a roundabout way to expect a market correction. I don't doubt but there's one on the way, no telling when, though. He mentioned data centers, one of them being scheduled just minutes away from our meeting place, in spite of the public's very strong vote against it. Social Security was also brought up. The latest figure bandied about is 2032 as the year our checks get a 22% haircut. I didn't see any smiling faces in the room full of retirees on that note.
Once again, since I'm a welder not a financial advisor, you do what's best for you, but betting on a government that's $40 trillion in debt sounds like a sucker's bet to me.
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