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[Simi 60]

Not a position I would like to be in later on.

Last week, the financial services giant Northwestern Mutual released new data showing that 1 in 3 Americans has less than $5,000 in retirement savings.

It’s an unfortunately familiar story. And Northwestern Mutual’s data is entirely aligned with other research we’ve seen in the past, including our own.

The Federal Reserve’s most recent Survey of Consumer Finances, for example, shows that the median bank balance among US consumers is just $2,900.

There is a balance.

[1Sunseeker]

On an ancient wall near Cairo
Where a dusty Pharaoh blinks
Deeply graven is the message
It is later than you think.

The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At a late or early hour.

Now is all the time you own
The past is but a golden light.

Go cruising now by brother
It is later than you think.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

Not a position I would like to be in later on.



There is a balance.

Yes, very sobering numbers. Feel very fortunate that I was able to strike a "balance" early in life.