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Sahil Bloom recently shared a jarring stat: “By the time your child turns 18, you’ve spent ~95% of the time you will ever spend with them…

For many years the best action to take with a 401(k) account when leaving an employer was to roll over the account to an IRA. The…

Retirement planning usually starts with a simple idea: save enough money to replace your income. But there’s one big problem. As you grow older, your income…

Mortgage rates slipped this week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, released Thursday, showed that the average rate on…

TikTok has dominated headlines recently, but its influence on pop culture has been building for years. As a father of young adults and a teenager, I…

In the current political environment, it’s very likely the current lifetime estate and gift tax exemption amount won’t expire after 2025. Estate and gift taxes should…

We soon will learn what Congress and the Trump administration have in store for Medicaid. But while the state/federal program has become a high-profile target, it…

There are numerous myths, rules of thumb, traditions and other shortcuts surrounding retirement planning. Fallacies and poor assumptions are behind many of them. Using the shortcuts…

For much of our life, school systems and workplaces teach us the next steps. We learn in elementary school the skills needed in middle school to…

University of Southern California professor and storytelling sage Robert McKee said this about character: “True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under…