Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. At 2 p.m. today, the Federal Reserve announced it’s leaving interest rates alone. Again. Fifth meeting in a row, with the benchmark still parked at 3.50% to 3.75%. That’s not the story. The story is what Fed Chair…
Who doesn’t love Amazon? It’s fast, convenient, and a one-stop shop for anything from vitamins to vacuums. But, it can also get messy. Especially when it’s time to sit down with your budget and figure out where all your money went. Take our household, for example, when a $27.13 charge shows up on the credit…
Shoppers in Washington state who received certain promotional emails from Costco over the past five years may be eligible for a cash payment under a proposed $14 million class action settlement. The settlement resolves a lawsuit alleging Costco sent commercial emails with false or misleading subject lines that advertised limited-time sales or last-day offers, even…
For advisors and dealers, the appeal is a wider field of smaller listed issuers turning to exempt offerings that retail clients can buy. The exemption leans on an issuer’s continuous disclosure record rather than a fresh prospectus, and the offering document would now point investors to seek the advice of a registrant. Dealers and finders…
Back in 2017, I wrote that households need to earn $300,000 a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in an expensive coastal city. The internet was not pleased. I was called out of touch, delusional, and a few other things I can’t print on a family finance blog. After having a second child in December 2019, I…
The depletion of Social Security trust funds often makes headlines, but Medicare spending also poses a huge, growing problem, according to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Medicare, the largest public health program in the U.S., accounts for 21% of national healthcare spending and 14% of the federal budget, the CRR stated in its July…
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