For some, the end of Halloween ushers in the holiday season. For personal finance nerds like me, it means that it’s time for ...

Amid the government shutdown, the first Friday of the month came and went without government jobs data. However, alternative measures of employment paint a picture of a labor market that ...

The higher the Social Security benefit, the more money that you can collect every year when the COLA is announced.

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A podcast listener writes: “For the past nine months, there have been five houses for sale on my block. As a nosey neighbor, I have attended an open house for each and have learned from the agents ...

Every so often, there’s a new twist on an old financial planning idea. A recent example was the “FIRE” movement (“Financial independence, retire early”), which became mainstream in the early 2010s.

“You sure do like talking about death, Jill!” said one of my favorite producers. Unlike so many areas of our lives that are out of our control, planning for an event that has a 100 percent probability ...

Once again, the U.S. government has shut down (since 1976, there have been 20). Beyond shuttered national parks and museums, there are plenty of direct and indirect financial consequences. Here are ...

Time for another Q&A column! If you have a question, send an email to: [email protected]. Question: I have been investing for decades, and I now want to transition into a safe, non-volatile, ...