Wowee - thanks for sharing that, M. Cat.
I knew that Forbes and MSN mostly crank out cheap shit just to keep their pages full, but that one is so bad, it's just.. amazing.
I love the references to the 0.5% money market fund, and quoting a 10-year stock market return as if that's the only time period one would ever want to consider (I'm personally much more excited about the 100% return from the crash in 2008 until today, for example).
We need a new an entirely new set of news media - just package up the whole bundle we've got right now, toss them in the trash, and start anew.
On the positive side, a few people from really big media places have started poking around, asking for interviews relating to this early retirement wave we're talking about here. CBC in Canada, and Yahoo in the US. We'll see if anything comes of that. It could be quite a shock to the system, if it were to catch on and get more coverage for an extended period of time, with lots of happy/normal-seeming people being featured as examples.