{"id":59529,"date":"2020-02-22T02:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=59529"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T23:04:36","slug":"black-coffee-22-feb-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id59529-black-coffee-22-feb-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Black Coffee: Rich Man, Poor Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/black-coffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-31075\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/black-coffee.jpg\" alt=\"black coffee\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/black-coffee.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/black-coffee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/black-coffee-50x38.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><em>It&#8217;s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what&#8217;s been going on in the world of money and personal finance.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I know I am &#8230; so let&#8217;s get this show on the road, shall we?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&#8212; Robert Kiyosaki<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>&#8212; Pete Townshend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credits and Debits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> Did you see this? After falling 1.1% on Friday, the S&amp;P 500 ended the week <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/asia-stocks-head-mixed-start-230743198.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">down 1.3%<\/a>. It was the same story for both the Nasdaq 100, which lost 1.9% Friday and 1.8% for the week, and the Dow, which lost 0.8% on Friday and 1.4% for the week. Huh. Apparently, the stock market really <em><strong>does<\/strong><\/em> move in reverse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> The high-flying stock market hasn&#8217;t been enough to keep seniors out of the labor force. In 2016, almost 27% of Americans between 65 and 74 were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/ted\/2019\/labor-force-participation-rate-for-workers-age-75-and-older-projected-to-be-over-10-percent-by-2026.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still working<\/a>; a number that&#8217;s projected to exceed 30% by 2026. And the number of people 75 <em><strong>and older<\/strong><\/em> who continue to work has gone from one in 17 in 2006 to more than one in 12 now. And by 2026, that figure will climb to one in nine. Sad.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Of course, some seniors only work to stave off boredom; and others continue for the health insurance &#8212; but the majority of them still work <a href=\"https:\/\/alhambrapartners.com\/2020\/02\/18\/the-magic-is-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">because they have to<\/a>. In fact, the GAO reports that 29% of senior households age 55 and older have no pension <em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em> nothing saved for retirement. Zero. Zip. <em>Nada<\/em>. That means, for at least 40 million US households now in &#8212; or approaching &#8212; their golden years &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4UDnTJcjPhY?controls=0&amp;start=18;end=77\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> On the other hand, it&#8217;s hard to save for retirement when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jchs.harvard.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Harvard_JCHS_Americas_Rental_Housing_2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 50% of your income<\/a> is spent on housing; and one in four renters &#8212; 11 million renters in all &#8212; are doing exactly that. That figure has nearly doubled since 2001. Somewhat ironically, this is happening even though households with incomes of at least $75,000 accounted for more than three-quarters of the growth in renters from 2010 to 2018. Yikes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Meanwhile, <em><strong>another<\/strong><\/em> new study of 2700 working adults at companies with over 500 employees has found that at least 32% of people making over $100,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salaryfinance.com\/us\/2020-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">run out of money between paychecks<\/a> and can&#8217;t make ends meet. Although, to be fair, that is clearly more of an indictment of those workers&#8217; budgeting skills than a poor economy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> Then again, it ain&#8217;t all bad news: Fidelity just announced that they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2020\/02\/13\/retirement-plans-401-k-and-ira-millionaires-hits-record\/4738392002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">233,000 clients with at least $1 million<\/a> in their 401(k) accounts &#8212; that&#8217;s 1.3% of all its participants. Hooray! However, the midpoint balance across <em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em> of their 401(k) accounts is much lower &#8212; just $27,000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> At best, this economic data is just more proof that exploding wealth inequality &#8212; caused by the central bankers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/negative-rates-are-hurting-savers-and-the-banks-that-handle-their-money-210154187.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poisonous near-zero interest rate policy<\/a> &#8212; has seen the middle class tread water; and at worst, they&#8217;ve become modern-day serfs. All this while the top 5% grow richer by the day.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Credit:<\/strong><\/span> It&#8217;s no surprise that the central banks&#8217; cheap credit policy has created an enormous bubble in everything from stocks and bonds to houses and fine art &#8212; not to mention US dollars. But, as Charles Hugh Smith notes, that bubble comes with consequences that has led to an even <em><strong>bigger<\/strong><\/em> problem: &#8220;The Fed birthed <a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/the-fed-has-created-monster-bubble-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a monster mania<\/a> of moral hazard beyond its control in which all risk has vanished.&#8221; You know &#8230; kind of like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEFx1qmW4ts?controls=0&amp;start=1;end=131\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> That cheap credit is a big reason why last month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/c\/consumerpriceindex.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPI<\/a> rose 0.1% on a seasonally adjusted basis; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/cpi.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climbed 2.5%<\/a> over the past 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. As a result, the 30-year yield is now less than the &#8220;official&#8221; inflation rate for the first time since 1972, shortly after the dollar&#8217;s anchor to gold was broken. And, yes; I realize <a href=\"https:\/\/chapwoodindex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">real-world inflation<\/a> has been higher than the 30-year yield for many many years &#8212; but just play along.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Debit:<\/strong><\/span> Unfortunately, central-bank money printing is in <a href=\"https:\/\/schiffgold.com\/key-gold-news\/fed-still-running-repo-operations-will-they-ever-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">permanent overdrive<\/a> because taking the foot off the pedal now would cause markets to implode &#8212; worldwide &#8212; which will cause the dollar to go up in smoke shortly thereafter. The good news is the rich possess hard assets and wealth insurance to cushion the blow, while the poor won&#8217;t miss what they never had. As for the middle class, they&#8217;ve got the most to lose. And lose they will. As they always do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the Numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve watched <em><strong>any<\/strong><\/em> television at all in the past few weeks, you&#8217;ve probably seen at least one political ad from billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Here are some numbers on Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign expenditures so far &#8212; as well as statistics for a couple of other billionaires in the race too:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Months Bloomberg has been an official presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$463,800,000<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> Amount that Bloomberg has spent on his campaign during the past three months; all of it from his own pocket.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>$263,700,000<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Amount that Bloomberg spent in January alone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$55,100,000<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> The Bloomberg campaign&#8217;s current cash-on-hand; that&#8217;s more than Democratic candidates Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang had raised in all of 2019.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>$200,000,000<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Amount fellow Democratic candidate Tom Steyer put into his own campaign last year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>$66,000,000<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Amount that incumbent Donald Trump put into his 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>0<\/strong><\/span><\/span> Amount of personal cash to-date that Trump has contributed to his own 2020 reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michelatindera\/2020\/02\/20\/filings-show-michael-bloomberg-spent-nearly-half-a-billion-dollars-on-his-own-campaign-in-three-months\/#c7d3a752336b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Question of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><code>[poll id=\"309\"]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Week&#8217;s Poll Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you a saver by nature, or do you have to force yourself?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m a saver by nature. (85%)<\/li>\n<li>I have to force myself. (15%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 1700 Len Penzo dot Com readers responded to last week&#8217;s question and it turns out that 6 in 7 Len Penzo dot Com are savers by nature. I guess that should be no surprise, considering this is a personal finance blog.<\/p>\n<p>If <strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong> have a question you&#8217;d like me to ask the readers here, send it to me at <strong>Len@LenPenzo.com<\/strong> &#8212; and be sure to put &#8220;Question of the Week&#8221; in the subject line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Useless News: The Long Weekend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man called home to his wife and said, &#8220;Honey, I&#8217;ve been asked to fly to Canada with my boss and several of his friends for fishing. We&#8217;ll be gone for a long weekend &#8212; and it&#8217;s a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I&#8217;ve been wanting &#8212; so please pack enough clothes for a three-day weekend. Also, please get my rod and tackle box from the attic. We&#8217;re leaving from the office at 4:30 p.m. and I&#8217;ll swing by the house to pick my things up. Oh, yes! And please pack my new navy blue silk pajamas!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wife thought this sounded a bit odd but, being the good wife, she did what her husband asked.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the long weekend, the man came home; he was a little tired but, otherwise, looked great.<\/p>\n<p>The wife welcomed him home and asked, &#8220;So, did you catch many fish?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!&#8221; answered her husband. &#8220;Lots of walleyes, several bass, and a few pike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a brief pause, the husband asked his wife, &#8220;By the way, why didn&#8217;t you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The wife replied, &#8220;I did &#8212; they&#8217;re in your tackle box.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(h\/t: RD Blakeslee)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Useless News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are the top five articles viewed by my <strong>29,762<\/strong> RSS feed, weekly email subscribers, and other followers over the past 30 days (excluding Black Coffee posts):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id13789-the-50-biggest-money-mistakes-household-ceos-make-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 50 Biggest Money Mistakes Household CEOs Make<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id8065-sneaky-price-tricks-your-grocer-doesnt-want-you-to-know-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sneaky Price Tricks Your Grocer Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Know<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id996-six-american-presidents-who-suffered-with-personal-debt-problems-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Six US Presidents Who Suffered With Personal Debt Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How to Stop FOMO From Creating a Gaping Hole in Your Budget<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id1270-five-lessons-from-my-italian-father-on-marriage-and-money-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Five Lessons From My Italian Father on Marriage and Money<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>This Week&#8217;s Sponsor: File Taxes Online with H&amp;R Block!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax time is here. 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You can reach out to me at: <strong>Len@LenPenzo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After reading my article explaining that <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id9030-sneaky-pizza-delivery-fees-are-here-to-stay-and-its-your-fault-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pizza fees are never going away<\/a>, <strong>Jenny<\/strong> left this suggestion to a fellow commenter who she obviously didn&#8217;t agree with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You can buy a franchise for $50k idiot! Lern [sic] to spell, and know what your [sic] talking about. You obviously slept in school. If you went.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Glass houses &#8230; and all that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this, please forward it to your friends and family. 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