Upon reading the news on how pizza chains are suffering due to consumer preferences for chicken I decided to personally try to make a difference by eating pizza. Here’s last night’s order: Look at those discounts! The small cheese was free, the medium thin was a semi-permanent special always discounted, I had a $5.00 loyalty […]
When the conversation centers on finding the next “miracle ingredient,” we risk losing sight of what truly matters: filling our plates with fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and other minimally processed plant foods. Health rarely depends on a single food. Rather, it depends on the overall dietary pattern and the synergistic interaction between thousands of […]
The study estimates that 13.8% of women in Bolotana who reach 70 will survive to 100, versus approximately 3.6% of U.S. women, roughly one in seven compared with one in 28. At 70, women in Bolotana were estimated to have nearly 21 years of life remaining. Bolotana also differs from the original Sardinian blue zones […]
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2026/10/mushrooms-a-collection-of-relatively-recent-items/ Eat real food. Don’t pop those pills.
Between July 1 and Aug. 18, Eagle County Sheriff’s Office dispatch logged 290 bear calls, while Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) received 81 reports — 47 involving property damage. Bear activity surging in Eagle County – https://www.vaildaily.com/news/bear-activity-surging-in-eagle-county/ There will be NO pickups in the back alley.
I took it at age 62. I didn’t know if I would live to age 70.
I’ll be 67 this year and don’t know if I’ll live to 70 but am deferring SS anyway. I’m playing Beat the Actuaries.
I did live to be 70. But I’m still glad I took the Social Security at age 62. I invested 100% of what I’ve been paid, so hopefully the growth over the past eight years will have put a dent in the overall loss for having a lower payments. There’s probably a way to calculate this, but it’s above my pay grade.
In theory when the system was designed it should not matter if you retired early or later as the total benefits paid would be the same based on actuarial science. But then I found this:
“A study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that the delayed credit is still about right, with the exception of the highest earners, who tend to outlive actuarial averages and reap the highest extra benefit.”
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1029357/its-time-to-revisit-social-securitys-early-and-delayed-claiming-formulas
Interesting. no?
I don’t know what that means. Is it better for high earners to take Social Security early or late?
Based on averages using large number it doesn’t matter. But if you are a high earner and in good health the Boston College study showed that it pays to claim SS benefits later.