“Someday, I’d like to be able to enjoy my retirement.” “Someday, I’d like to be able to travel.” “Someday, I’d like to be able to relax.” Are you one of the people who talk about “someday” but you lack...
Mutual funds are a passive investor’s dream. They’re cheap, “diverse,” and (usually) well managed. Compared to a savings account, they seem like a fixed race. And they beat CDs (“certificates of deposit”) by a nose. But like...
Marriage: the word itself means to fuse, mix, blend, merge–and yet personalities and pre-marriage spending habits are regularly cited as some of the most contentious and divisive issues faced by married couples. One spouse likes to splurge, the other saves. One...
America’s debt problem cannot be solved by federal budget cuts alone. It can’t be solved by great and inspiring speeches. And it won’t be solved by doing nothing. The meager 1.9% economic growth of the past eight years was too low to either boost the...
Most people end up relying on benefits from the government when they retire — specifically, Social Security benefits. Social Security is a program run by the government that provides you money in your retirement based on a number of different factors; the only...
