You Should Have Started Saving for Retirement Yesterday
A Lot of Obstacles Keep Us From Making Long-Term Investments. Luckily, There Are a Lot of Ways to Get Around Them.
Thinking about retirement is never easy. “We feel your pain,” financial writer Tom Petruno told an audience at MOCA Grand Avenue. “It’s very hard when you’re 25 to think about 65. You can’t even really fathom it.” Petruno was moderating a panel co-presented by AARP on whether young Californians will ever be able to retire. Petruno said that in the 1970s, his college tuition cost $115 per quarter. The costs of higher education have skyrocketed since then, leading to heavy student loan debt—which is just one of the many obstacles …
