Browsing: Personal Finance

The Social Security trustees released their latest annual report, evaluating the finances of the country’s premier social program. It faces manageable financial challenges that could become…

Retirement planning is built on numbers—not just dollars, but dates. When will I retire? At what age can I afford to stop working? Increasingly, longevity risk…

American Express has significant updates in the pipeline for its Platinum credit cards.  The company’s U.S. consumer and business Platinum Cards are slated to get “major”…

Growing up, my parents always visited the same drug store on the main street in our small town. They were on a first-name basis with the…

Roth IRAs have been around for more than 20 years, and many people may have forgotten or never learned about how valuable they can be. Even…

I didn’t read for pleasure until after college—when I could, for the first time, choose what I read. Even then, the work of financial planning required…

Monthly unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that white men have seen a worse erosion of employment opportunities than white women and…

Most of us have probably heard of financial abuse of elders. Stories appear in local media about a caregiver ripping off the person they attend to…

It seems you can’t avoid crypto. It’s everywhere. In ads. On X posts. And, maybe soon, in your 401(k). But is that a good thing? If…

May’s Consumer Price Index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has its share of good news, mainly slowing inflation. But some issues remain and emerging…