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…
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There was general agreement among analysts that 2016 was not going to be a great year for stocks. Yet nothing prepared investors for the brutal reality of the first week…
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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…
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Two things in your financial life are always challenging: job interviews and buying a home. Both are challenging for the same reason and that’s because you don’t do it every…
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You can’t see inflation and, in the last few decades, you haven’t even been able to feel it. That’s because inflation is an expert at camouflage. Inflation knows how to…
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The one and two New Year’s resolutions are losing weight and being smarter with money. For weight loss that will mean many people turning to the diet of the day,…
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Standing on Florida’s coast last night I witnessed space history as a Falcon 9 booster lifted off from Cape Canaveral and arced into the night sky. From my vantage I…
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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…
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It’s hard to believe but children born today might never know the adolescent rite of passage that is a driver’s license exam. For kids born today it will be close,…
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For much of the most productive era in American history the middle class was the dominant force in the country. The nation was so aligned along that center of the…