Money

Unlike generations before them, millennials have accumulated far less wealth at an early stage of life. Part of that is a mindset that values consumption over saving, and part is…

Stock markets went on a tear two years ago and haven’t really looked back yet. From a low of less than 16,000 points in February 2016, the Dow Jones reached…

Never heard of Vertcoin? You aren’t the first, but this new cryptocurrency is a potential sleeper altcoin of 2018 that small dollar investors might be looking for. Vertcoin is ranked…

It’s a discouraging figure, but one that probably isn’t altogether surprising: nearly half of Americans will be broke, or close to it, by the time they retire. Nearly 14% of…

In a pointed critique of his foreign critics, President Trump pointed out their hypocrisy on the issue of trade. Near the conclusion of trade talks at last week’s G7 meeting,…

In 1871, Carl Menger published his Principles of Economics, in which he argued that economic analysis has universal principles and that the individual and the individual’s choices are the acceptable…

College was rough already financially, but how little did I know just how expensive the “real world” would be once I went from being a happy-go-lucky recent graduate to now…

Conservatives and President Trump were hoping to pass massive repeals of parts of the Dodd-Frank banking law, but the final product Congress is sending to the President’s desk turned out…

Many Americans are all too familiar with the rising cost of housing, including rent. The cost of housing has far outstripped the rise in incomes over the past several years,…

Many people are familiar with the federal government’s definition of the poverty level, the level at which a family is defined as being poor. For 2018, an individual with an…