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Suze Orman Says $2M Is 'Pennies' Today and That You'll Likely Need $10M to Retire Without Touching Principal Or 'Burn Up Alive'
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-09 13:31
A financial guru walks into a podcast and declares that $2 million is worthless. That wasn't the setup to a bad finance joke—it was the very real opinion of personal finance expert Suze Orman. During a 2018 appearance on the "Afford Anything" podcast, Orman didn't tiptoe around the question of early retirement or what she thought of people planning to live off modest nest eggs. When asked how much someone would need to feel financially safe—say, if they got hit by a bus tomorrow—her answer was immediate. ...