How To Escape The American Rat Race

In this episode we are going to explore one of my favorite topics, retirement! I love talking about it, however it's something I never see myself actually doing.  My thought is retire and do what?  I can't play golf for the next 50 years without going insane.  While this is my thought, it is obviously not the most popular thought because retirement is something we hear every day, especially as today the baby boomers are starting to retire. In this episode we are going to discuss several things: First - what it will take to retire financially, and some possible pitfalls.   We will look at both the baby boomer generation who is starting to retire now, as well as the millenial generation which is just now entering the workforce. A recent Blackrock survey gives us a number that to me seems way low. Second - we will extrapolate baby boomer data to get a look into millenial retirement. As someone who is a part of the millenial generation I will say I don't know many of my peers who have a solid