What If Boomers Can't Retire? : How to Build Real Security, Not Phantom Wealth.
ISBN
9781605098081
1605098086
9781609944056
1609944054
1283268752
9781283268752
1576751120
9781576751121
1576752496
9781576752494
9786613268754
6613268755
Published
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (285 pages)
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Notes
English.
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Summary
When it was first published, What If Boomers Can't Retire? predicted what would happen when boomers switched from buying stocks to selling them for retirement income. Since then-and as predicted by author Thornton Parker-stocks have become less important, prices have declined, corporations have shifted their emphasis from inflating stocks to just surviving, and there is currently a recession in full swing. This book shows that there is a bright side, however. If enough boomers work in their later years and preserve their capital, and if the country improves the way it uses capital, the results.
Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beware of Phantom Wealth; PART I: BABY BOOMERS AND THEIR RETIREMENT PLANS; PART II: PHANTOM WEALTH AND ITS EFFECTS; PART III: GUIDING THE FUTURE-YOURS AND SOCIETY'S; Appendixes; Notes; Glossary; Index; About the Author.