The trade war helps explain why early retirement - which peaked in 1998

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The trade war helps explain why early retirement - which peaked in 1998 - is a dying concept

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In case you missed it, peak early retirement happened in 1998.
The average retirement age that year was 60.9 years, which compares with 65.3 in 2024. Let’s start with the trade war in documenting how this quiet demise of early retirement came to be.
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