The financially organized person has many hallmarks, including holding little to no debt (or at least a sound strategy to pay down any debt), having a monthly budget, and working actively toward clear financial goals. One of the signs of the truly...
A recent survey showed more than half of U.S. investors have provided or currently provide financial assistance, personal assistance or both to their adult children or extended family members — and that’s excluding tuition payments.
So how does one save for retirement while...
“What goes up must come down” isn’t just how gravity works—unfortunately, it also applies to the United States economy. It can’t be bull markets and rainbows all the time, sadly. If you’re someone who got excited about high yield savings account interest...
You might have heard that the age you begin taking Social Security matters. You can start as early as 62, but you must wait until your full retirement age (FRA) — which is 66 or 67 depending on your birth year —...
You probably know that you should be saving for retirement. But when it’s so far away, and you have more immediate concerns to worry about, it’s hard to give up a sizable chunk of your earnings for a benefit you won’t realize...
The Great Recession has officially been over for a decade, but for many Americans, there’s still little reason to celebrate.
Many people’s finances haven’t recovered from the recession’s blows, according to a survey by personal finance website Bankrate.com.
Parents can be the most important influence on a teen considering college. But how they talk to their children about the all of their choices — Ivy League, state university, community college, trade school, coding boot camp or even no postsecondary education...
TAX SEASON WILL BE HERE before you know it, and you may be wondering what could happen if you don’t file your 2019 returns by the April 15, 2020 deadline. For many people, filing taxes is a straightforward process. Perhaps, you have tax withheld from...
We all want to max out our 401(k) contributions — and a select handful of taxpayers are doing just that.
Some 4.67 million taxpayers managed to squirrel away the maximum $18,000 in employee contributions to their 401(k) in 2016,...
We are all Steve Martin.
“I love money. I love everything about it,” he once said. “I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gas-powered...
