Browsing: Personal Finance

While a home is a significant asset, it can also be a significant liability if it stretches your budget too thin. It can hold you back…

January 2004. I’d been in the financial business for five years. Having spent the first four on the institutional side, I was a newly minted financial…

A plain-vanilla whole-life insurance policy involves monthly payments for life with a death benefit paid to the policy’s beneficiaries. For example, average monthly premiums for a…

I own a house in Hawaii, and I have been renting it out for the past 8 years. I would like to sell the house soon.…

I’m afraid to bring this up with friends in case they call me a “Karen” or tell me I’m being selfish or a skinflint. Over the…

The pandemic normalized work from home. But many companies have permanently gone remote, putting the pressure on office spaces across the U.S. That post-pandemic pivot has…

The debt ceiling standoff is putting the U.S. government’s cash-management problems in hard focus.There is less than a month before the earliest date when Treasury Secretary…

Many would-be entrepreneurs have been stopped dead in their tracks, assuming they need a fortune to get their ideas off the ground. This is often not…

As grocery prices continue to climb, more people said they were eating less, skipping meals or cutting down in other areas to manage food costs. Prices…

I previously wrote about the proposed changes to the Texas Anti-SLAPP law in my article, Don’t Make A Mess Out Of The Texas Citizens Participation Act…