“Portable,” as defined in Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, means “capable of being transported or conveyed.” A portable retirement account would allow you to move it from one employer to another without any discernible detriment to you. As a rule, employers in either the not-for-profit or the for-profit sector rarely permit employees to bring retirement plans from previous employers to their new positions. On occasion, Congress has debated enacting legislation that would allow for the creation of individual pension accounts that could be moved from one employer to another. (more…)

Investors everywhere are choosing to go with a physical gold IRA over traditional IRA’s that contains stocks, bonds, mutual funds or money market accounts. Putting physical gold into a retirement account has many advantages, but remember that no investment is guaranteed.

Typically, paper investments, like stocks and bonds, have been used for IRA’s. (more…)

The US Federal Government is in its death throes. It is thrashing around, writhing on the floor, like a person suffering a grand mal seizure.

The Obama Administration, The Federal Reserve and Congress are completely clueless on the methods necessary to bring America back from the financial precipice. (more…)