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The Paycheck Checkup: How to Save on Hassle, Headache & Cash
You don't want to owe money come tax time, and you don't want the Government holding onto more money than is necessary. With a multitude of changes to the tax code, resulting from the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017" that was signed into law December 22, 2017, millions...
5 Signs the Stock Market Is In for a Bumpy Ride
Over the last ten years, as the markets have rebounded from the banking crisis, all economic indicators have seemed to move in a healthy direction. And yet, in the last couple months, stock market volatility has been a regular occurrence. One area of concern for...
Five Tragic Losses of ‘Someday’ Syndrome
"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 a solid plan to get you there? Retirement is going to happen...
Four Drawbacks to Investing in Mutual Funds
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 anything that can seem too good to be true,...
Money Matters in Marriage: How Spenders and Savers Can Stay in Sync
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...
Common Sense: How Growth Fixes Debt & Tax Cuts Create Growth
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 private sector or...
How Much Will I Get in Social Security in My Retirement?
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 main...
Poverty Prevention for Millennials: Education, Employment, Saving
Millennials (adults ages 18-32) constitute the largest and best-educated age group in today's society, according to Wendy Wang, co-author of "The Millennial Success Sequence," with W. Bradford Wilcox, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia....
The Top Five Regrets of People About to Retire
People usually consider retirement a relief from the daily grind of hard work. However, not everyone is able to live out their golden years in as much comfort as they would like because they have not provided adequately for their retirements when they were still...
7 Ways to Celebrate Paying Off Your Mortgage
For the vast majority of people, the day you 'buy' your house is the beginning a long line of mortgage payments. Slowly and diligently over time, you watch that number go down. This gets especially exciting, almost nail-biting, in the very last year as you anticipate...