financial

The United States needs to do something about the scale of its forward-looking entitlement obligations, most prominently Social Security and Medicare.

It’s easy to hate on banks. Everybody loves to do it. We just can’t make up our minds which ones to hate the most.

The SECURE Act 2.0 which passed towards the end of 2022 ushered in a great many changes to the retirement planning landscape.

During the heady days of the meme stock, crypto and SPAC crazes of the COVID pandemic, enthusiasts for the new trends often justified their speculative excesses by invoking the acronym “YOLO”.

When parents typically list out their financial goals, they tend to look something like this…

Financially speaking, the first half of 2022 was not fun in almost any way.

After a couple of years in which money at times seemed almost literally to grow on trees, 2022 is proving to be a much less fun year financially in every way imaginable.

Those of us with a certain amount of gray hair remember sitting around dinner tables in 2006-7 talking about how unreal the valuations of our houses seemed.

Recent months and weeks have served us up some unpleasant surprises.

As the years have flowed on inexorably and ever more speedily, I have realized there are financial seasons to the year.

When I talk to people about their household finances, I often become privy to what I think of as valuation imbalances in their households…

It’s October again, the days are growing shorter, the nights crisper, leaves are changing colors and falling to the earth, it’s many people’s favorite time of year. But however much…

Like many, I’ve been biking more during the pandemic, and early this year I decided to treat myself to a new mountain bike, since my current one is about 35 years old…

Back in 2013, Harold Pollack, a University of Chicago professor of Social Work, told an audience that the best personal finance advice could fit on an index card.