A variety of well known companies—including Levi Strauss, Uber and Lyft—have plans to go public this year. But if you’re looking to add a few “unicorns” to your portfolio, you should pump the brakes for the time being.
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Americans are bad at saving — and banking apps are trying to talk them into doing better.
Almost 60% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings and nearly 80% live paycheck to paycheck. A number of artificial intelligence-powered...
I have a few go-to sites when I’m looking for information on products I’m interested in buying, like the Wirecutter, the Strategist and Amazon comments (though you’ll have to be careful there).
These are usually adequate choices, but if...
Start spreading the news: New Yorkers are coughing up the most cash in state income taxes.
The Empire State collected $2,249 per capita in individual state income taxes during the 2017 fiscal year, according to data from the Tax...
We’ve written before about why you should encourage your kid to open a Roth IRA—they can start building up savings from a young age, benefitting from compounding and learning about saving and investing along the way.
To sweeten the...
Millennials face a nasty set of obstacles on their path to financial security. From student loans and stalled wage growth to nosebleed housing costs and care for aging parents, it’s a tough time to be navigating the early years of adulthood.
Manhattan is losing wealthy residents, home sales are falling in Westchester County, and real estate prices are flattening in several counties. Those are some of the effects that New York says it’s feeling because of the new cap on state and local...
Ticket prices aren’t taking off.
In fact, airfare is getting cheaper. When you adjust for inflation, the average round-trip domestic airfare in 1995 would have cost you $480, according to government data. In 2018, it cost you just an...
If you’ve been considering making the jump to an online bank, here’s a reason to do it now: A recent Federal Reserve rate increase may prod banks to give their customers higher interest rates on their savings in 2019. Here, one man...
Auto-enrollment introduces millions of Americans to the concept of saving for retirement — but it’s not enough of a good thing.
More companies are implementing automatic enrollment, in which new employees are signed up for a retirement plan, such...
