Investing for Beginners
Lump Sum or Dollar Cost Averaging for Your First Investment
Say you just received a 12,000 dollar inheritance, a bonus or the proceeds from selling a car, and you have already decided it...
About 95 percent of married couples in the United States file a joint return, and most of them never run the numbers on the alternative. That is usually the right call.
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Investing for Beginners
Say you just received a 12,000 dollar inheritance, a bonus or the proceeds from selling a car, and you have already decided it...
Retirement Planning
The average American worker changes jobs about every four years.
Games
Few things teach the feel of risk as quickly as a game.
Taxes Simplified
A reader emailed me last spring with a familiar shock.
Investing for Beginners
Put $500 a month into a fund for 30 years, earn 7 percent a year before fees, and you end up with roughly $610,000.
Retirement Planning
A friend of mine worked at the same company for three years contributing 3 percent of her $100,000 salary to her 401(k).
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Three writers who each spent years on a different side of a money decision: a former family financial planner who got tired of budget templates that assume nobody has an irregular paycheck, a one-time collections rep who now explains what a credit report actually shows, and someone who has tracked her own index fund returns since she was twenty four and writes from that spreadsheet, not a textbook. Every article carries a byline, and the numbers shown are worked through, not rounded to make a point.