RetirementPlanning

Which delivers a better return - the stock market or CD laddering? You won't believe it...but there's a caveat,
- Calculator to determine real historical rate of return, inflation adjusted, for S&P 500 .
Doug Short's impressive list of Retirement Calculators
How much do you need? And how will inflation affect that?!?! Just like this:

Forecasting recessions - if you know they're coming, you can be sure to move your $$ to a safer location. Not that timing the market is recommended, of course!! (I heard this a lot from Fidelity when the market crashed in 2008, even though my move into Treasuries saved me a good 30% of my 401K. YMMV, of course)