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Quentin Fottrell

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Irishman in New York. Managing Editor, Advice Columns @MarketWatch. Created The Moneyist. Former Ireland correspondent for @DowJones/@WSJ

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‘You need only watch episodes of Judge Judy’: I’m in my 70s. Why do people keep making the same avoidable financial mistakes? Original

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‘You need only watch episodes of Judge Judy’: I’m in my 70s. Why do people keep making the same avoidable financial mistakes?
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'You need only watch episodes of Judge Judy': I'm in my 70s. Why do people keep making the same avoidable financial mistakes?

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By Quentin Fottrell 'Consider some familiar examples of poor decisions: accumulating credit-card debt or failing to plan for retirement' "Consider some familiar examples of poor decisions: refusing vaccines, accumulating credit-card debt, failing to plan for retirement or make a will." (Photo subject is a model.) Dear Quentin, Between my own experiences over 70 years and those of others, including you, it is clear that history is a great teacher.
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My wife has only $80,000 saved for retirement. I have $2.2 million. Am I wrong to be shocked?

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Dear Quentin, I'm 64 and my wife is 61. We've been married 28 years, with two grown kids, three grandkids and a paid-off house outside Columbus, Ohio. I'm an engineering director making $190,000, and between my 401(k), an IRA and a brokerage account, I have about $2.2 million. I figured we'd both be done working in three years or so.
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