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When it comes to handling financial matters, there's no reason stay at home mom's should be taking a passive role. Especially when the topic is retirement planning.
When it comes to the rest of your life, there's really a lot at stake. How you can make the most of those years, and even extend them.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich's recent proposal to create one million jobs would increase the retirement security risk of, oh, about one million Americans. As much as we need more jobs, this idea is downright dangerous.
To pump up your retirement income, put off getting your first Social Security check for as long as you can. For married couples, however, the rules for collecting bigger benefits month are trickier.
Bond traders can profit from more pain in the financial markets, and you need to understand why.
This chart is a good visual of how the stock market works. More often than not, the stock market produces positive returns. For most people, you have the time horizon to wait out the negative returns.
So long to the multi-generation low rates we are seeing now, which have been the best rates seen in nearly 50 years. But home buyers on the hunt for bargains should still be able to find them.
Team USA thumped Canada 5-3 in Olympic hockey, but our northern neighbors have it all over the U.S. when it comes to retirement contentedness.
This blog describes a way to extend your lifespan and healthspan, a solution that's been around a long time, has been confirmed by modern science, is quite inexpensive, and is something we can use right now. Sound too good to be true? It's not. It's the lifestyle solution.
It's hard to argue with someone who decides to not use a credit card. I say more power to you! But if you decide to ditch your card, know what you could be giving up and be prepared to deal with the limitations and risks of using other forms of payment.
The Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) was sensibly suspended in 2009 to help retirees cope with bear market losses. Now its back in play for 2010, so Uncle Sam can pocket some much needed tax revenue. But the timing of the reinstatement is a slap to seniors who are still struggling to cope with the aftermath of the 2008 bear market and financial crisis.
Whatever you call it, our retirement will be different from our parents' retirement. Better fasten your seat belts.
If your child is considering borrowing money to go to college, here's a formula to help you determine what's reasonable.
Finally, a payoff for doing less work. A study of more than 400,000 401(k) participants concludes that individuals who rely on some form of professional asset allocation advice did better-to the tune of nearly two percentage points-than folks who make their own allocation decisions.
If you think of a Treasury bond as a personal loan from you to a Uncle Sam, you have to wonder who would buy one these days. Lots of risk, microscopic return.
