Personal Finance

You didn’t have to be a mystic to see this market crash coming. Back in August of 2015, I gave our readers tips on how to prepare for the coming …

One in four. That’s how many Americans are one accident, one illness or one bit of financial bad luck away from disaster. That bad news comes in spite of an …

One of the biggest myths in modern finance is that your home is an investment. Nothing could be further from the truth yet, every single day, Americans stretch to buy …

Many of you are dealing with a ghost in your house. That ghost keeps you up at night and tugs at your consciousness during the day; it’s a depressing passenger …

It comes as a sudden realization a week before payday and, sometimes, a text or email from the bank or the hideous embarrassment of having your debit card declined in …

If making money was easy, everyone would be rich. The fact that the majority of people in the United States are poor tells you something about investing. It also tells …

For most of us, our view of housing is rooted in the 1950s, as are our views of working and retirement. The 50s shaped so much of our thinking that …

There’s news from the stock market and it’s all bad. The best news from the first week of trading in the new year is that the market can’t fall any …

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are a single missed paycheck away from financial disaster. The math is straightforward and brutal; it’s all about the odds. Roughly four in ten Americans are …

I’m not sure why people wait for the end of the year to make resolutions; the time to make a resolution is the moment you realize there’s a problem. Be …