A Reference, Not a Pitch
Someone Who Sat Where You Sit.
His name is Jim Dixon. He spent forty years at Southern Nuclear, retired at Plant Vogtle about a year ago, and has been a client of this firm for twenty years. He gave me his permission to tell you that — and you will understand why it matters in a moment.
Twenty Years, Three Crises
The Decisions You Are Facing, He Has Already Made.
If you spent your career at Plant Vogtle — or Hatch, or Scherer, or anywhere in the Southern Company family — you already know the decisions waiting at the end of it. A pension election you cannot undo. Company stock accumulated over decades. Benefit structures that no generic retirement plan was built to handle. Jim spent forty years at Southern Nuclear, retiring at Plant Vogtle, and he faced every one of them.
He and I have worked together for twenty years. That span is not a marketing number — it is a specific stretch of market history. It covers the 2008 financial crisis, the fastest crash in modern history in 2020, and the bond-and-stock double drawdown of 2022. A twenty-year advisory relationship means those storms were navigated together, in real time, with real money and a real retirement at stake.
Last year, Jim made the transition every reader of this page is either planning or living: he retired. And he agreed to let me use his name — not because I asked him to say anything, but because he was willing to stand behind the relationship. If you know him, that will tell you everything. If you don’t, the next section is his own writing, published in his own name, where anyone can read it.
Global Financial Crisis
Fastest Crash in History
Stocks & Bonds Fell Together
Jim Retired
In His Own Words
Then He Read the Book.
After retiring, Jim read The Creature That Ate America — my book on the Federal Reserve and the slow erosion of the dollar. He was not asked to review it. He bought it, read it, and posted this on Amazon under his own name. It is reproduced here with his permission, word for word.
★★★★★
“The Real Midnight Train to Georgia”
“The first thing you should know about me is I am not an intense reader. I mean yea give me a book on SEC football greats or some military history then I’m all in. I sat and read this book cover to cover in one sitting.
I know Jekyll Island well and have been all over the Millionaires village but had no idea the real deed that was accomplished by the group of 6 after these duck hunters went down to Georgia. I was unaware that something marketed in this manner could grow to such a beast with no true accountability.
This book provides great historical insight, is well written, and gives the reader a view as if they were in the room with those that set the wheels in motion and those that have kept those wheels greased. I particularly liked President Andrew Jackson’s view in that ‘the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes’. Wonderful read. Thank you!”
— Jim Dixon
Why This Page Exists
You Should Not Take My Word for It. That Is the Point.
Every advisor will tell you they are trustworthy. Very few will hand you the name of a real person — someone from your own world, who worked where you worked, faced the decisions you are facing, and stayed for twenty years across three of the worst market events in modern history.
Jim did not write a script for me, and I did not write one for him. When I asked, his answer was simple: “Wilder, you may use my name as a reference as you reach out to others.” His name is on this page because he agreed to stand behind it, and his review is on Amazon because he chose to put it there.
If you are weighing the same decisions Jim once weighed, that is a conversation worth an hour of your time. Mention his name when you call.
Disclosure
Jim Dixon is a current advisory client of Bailey Financial Services, Inc. and has been a client for approximately twenty years. He received no compensation, directly or indirectly, for the use of his name on this page or for his book review, and no conflicts of interest arise from this arrangement. His statements reflect his own opinions and his own experience, which may not be representative of the experience of other clients and is not a guarantee of future performance or success. His review concerns a published book and is not a statement about investment performance.
The Next Twenty Years Will Not Look Like the Last Twenty. Plan Accordingly.
If you spent your career with Southern Company, Georgia Power, or Southern Nuclear, the decisions ahead of you deserve an advisor who has guided people through them before — and can prove it. Start with a conversation.
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