Joe finds a new job and at age 35 is now making $55,000 a year. At this point he should have $82,500 saved for retirement. How to get there: Check in on your portfolio to make sure you're taking on enough risk to grow your investments. If retirement is 30 years away, you should have about 80% of your assets in the stock market.
The president of the United States can, in theory, launch nuclear war by personal decisionâwithout any checks or balances. Whether we really think any of the candidates for president in 2016 would cavalierly start a nuclear war, the bombastic and bizarre character of much of this yearâs electoral debate should make us take this question seriously. Someday, the United States really could have a mentally ill president who chose to do the unthinkable.
That's infuriating Republicans and even some Democrats, who are demanding that the Obama administration submit any final nuclear deal with Iran to Congress for approval. This is clearly a treaty, Arizona Sen. John McCain told reporters Tuesday.