Brian Preston of the Money Guy Show recently distilled a quiet crisis into one number: "57% of Americans, that this is where they don't report having any money outside of 401(k)s, meaning that if your employer didn't have a plan, you have absolutely nothing going on." His show's playbook pairs that warning with concrete targets: 1x your annual salary saved by age 30, scaling to 20x by age 65. The stakes for anyone in that 57% are concrete. With the personal savings rate at 4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, ...