When my wife and I pay off our mortgage, we're going to use the old payment amount to throw a party for our friends to celebrate with us =).

Don't punish the prudent.

Contrary to what some stereotyping internet comment-makers might think, people in Wichita do have cell phones and electricity and can make basic mathematical computations. Sorry Pizza Hut.

YTD definitely not you.

"In short, everyone who cares about retirement security should welcome the restoration of the payroll tax." Except those of us who actually have a modicum of personal responsibility and a plan for our own retirement. Trust the inept government to provide for my needs in my twilight years? Not a chance on earth. $...more

800 million people.

I... don't understand.

"The more you make, the more you need to save." This is absolutely incorrect. It should be, "The more you intend to spend in retirement, the more you need to save." They mention it in passing, but it's all about lifestyle expectation in retirement.

Apple trades in luxuries and Amazon in such low profit ranges that it's practically commodity. Marginal expectations should be adjusted accordingly.