In the last post, we looked at the most popular side jobs worked by Americans in 2017. As the most logical followup, in this post we'll look at why Americans worked side … [Read more...]
What Are the Most Common Side Jobs in America?
While the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking is incredibly useful for figuring out retirement stats, we've barely tested its depths with our recent posts. … [Read more...]
How Much Do Early Retirees – Or Extremely Early Retirees – Have Saved?
Our last few posts have looked at early retirees. We looked at the early retirement age (and extreme early retirement age), as well as survey data on how common early … [Read more...]
Early Retirement: How Common – Or Rare – Is It?
In a recent post, we argued for 55 years old as the early retirement age cutoff in America. Due to the timing of commonly available government benefits, early retirement … [Read more...]
What is the Early Retirement Age? Examining Government and Popular Opinion
As we continue our series on retirement statistics here on DQYDJ, we have to first lay out one retirement age definition. Being an (ostensibly) personal finance web site … [Read more...]
Retirement Planning: How Do Americans Pay For Retirement?
In our series on American retirement, we penned two articles on retirement preparation - American retirement savings and retirement savings by age. For those posts we … [Read more...]
Why Do Americans Retire?
In our average retirement age in the United States piece we briefly discussed retiring for health reasons... then didn't dive deeper. Through the lens of 2017 Survey of … [Read more...]
Average Retirement Age in the United States
The average retirement age in the United States among currently living retirees was 59.88 years old. The median living retiree left work at 62 years old, and the most … [Read more...]
Do Americans Feel On-Track for Retirement?
The Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) from the Federal Reserve is a survey which asks – among other things – how prepared American adults are for … [Read more...]
Age and Retirement Savings to Income Multiple: What Should You Have Saved?
One way to evaluate retirement savings is to look at a retirement savings to income multiple. Taking a household's total retirement savings and dividing by typical … [Read more...]
Checking in on Risk Premiums: Mid-May 2018
A risk premium is the excess return an investor captures or anticipates between a risky asset and a comparable safer asset. A risk premium can either be a forward … [Read more...]
Using Yield Curve Inversion as a Recession Indicator
In our last post, we looked at extending our measure of the United States yield curve back in time. To recap, a yield curve inversion occurs when short-term debt yields … [Read more...]