Browsing: Retirement

I’ll admit, this topic can be confusing. First, let’s start with Social Security’s definition of full retirement age. Depending on your birth year, full retirement age…

Net worth is easy to measure. But what makes it worthwhile? What justifies the effort, investment, or sacrifice required to pursue financial success? And how is…

Recent wildfires in Los Angeles, floods, extreme heat, tornadoes and other emergencies are getting more frequent in our country. If it hasn’t happened to you or…

Red warning lights are flashing that the U.S. might be entering into a period of stagflation. Key concerns include: The inflationary impact of tariffs implemented by…

The Social Security trustees released their latest annual report, evaluating the finances of the country’s premier social program. It faces manageable financial challenges that could become…

Household wealth – the difference between what people own and what they owe – declined by $1.6 trillion in the first three months of the year,…

Growing up, my parents always visited the same drug store on the main street in our small town. They were on a first-name basis with the…

Roth IRAs have been around for more than 20 years, and many people may have forgotten or never learned about how valuable they can be. Even…

I didn’t read for pleasure until after college—when I could, for the first time, choose what I read. Even then, the work of financial planning required…

Most of us have probably heard of financial abuse of elders. Stories appear in local media about a caregiver ripping off the person they attend to…