If you are in your sixties or seventies you are probably spending a fair amount of time trying to figure out what the next decade or two of your life is going to look like. I can relate. In the past few...
You’ve probably already heard about the FIRE movement.
FIRE stands for financial independence, retire early. Usually, the people who follow it are in their 20s and 30s and saw what happened to the economy in 2008 and have decided...
Members of Generation Z (age 22 and under) are now the youngest employees in the workforce. But as they start their professional careers, many are failing to focus on a key aspect of their personal finances: their savings.
In...
On a recent weeknight, Dahlia and Adam Brown came home to their spacious Colonial on a quiet cul-de-sac in Marietta, Ga. The Browns both work demanding jobs and have two young sons. They bought the house in June using Knock, a company...
If you’re your own boss, chances are you aren’t doing enough to save for retirement.
Just over 1 in 10 of self-employed individuals in a single-person business is currently participating in a workplace retirement plan, according to data from...
It’s a fact: low-wage workers don’t save much for retirement. States are aiming to fix that. But here’s a question: is it really a problem that needs to be fixed? How hard should we push the poor to save for retirement?
Most Americans would probably have a hard time wrapping their heads around a $350,000 salary. In fact, government data cited by Sam Dogen of the Financial Samurai blog shows that some 95% of U.S. households don’t pull in that much. The median...
When it comes to the forecast for your Social Security benefits in 2020, there’s good news and bad news.
Your Social Security checks are poised to grow next year; however, the annual increase likely won’t be as much as...
There are plenty of reasons to save money as a teenager. Whether you’re looking to save for your first car, college, or a gap-year trip around the world, the most important part of saving as a teen is getting started.
Do you expect to spend the same amount in each and every year in retirement?
Of course not. Yet many financial plans nevertheless assume that you will. The famous 4% rule, for example, grew out of research about what...
