Financial interdependence When I field questions about parents helping their adult children financially, there is ambivalence from both...

Super Bowl sweethearts Sometimes it’s tough to write about personal finance and make it fresh, but the high-profile relationship of...

Tax season opens Taxpayers, start your engines! The tax season officially opened January 29 and the IRS expects more than 128 million...

Consumers and investors feel better A funny thing happened on the way to 2024: Consumers feel better! The University of Michigan consumer...

Credit card debt resurfaces Debtors’ prisons were abolished by Congress in 1833, which is good news for the millions of Americans....

Resilience, not recession A year ago, the vast majority of economists were warning that the 2023 economy would be haunted by the letter...

Financial resolutions for 2024 Have you made New Year’s resolutions? If you are a non-believer in the annual ritual, the folks at...

Healthcare open enrollment for 2024 As open enrollment packages for healthcare coverage roll in, you might be tempted to tune out and...

2024 COLA fizzles out Before COVID-19, the annual October ritual of announcing the following year’s Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for...

Shutdown-o-nomics Here we go again…although Congress voted to keep the government open, averting a shutdown, it’s just for 45 days. We...

UAW steps up, Fed stands down Two notable events collided to paint a picture of the U.S. economy that remains in a post-pandemic...

Summer Mail Bag—Estate As we close out the last weeks of the summer, my in-box is begging for responses. I will spend the next few weeks...

College bound financial advice Millions of families are packing up to send their kids to college. Before starting the journey, hopefully...

Club Medicare On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. The program was intended to provide...

Powerball lessons Powerball fever has broken. Someone in California won the jackpot, which was worth just over $1 billion, the...

After attending just one wedding over the past five years, I have now received four “save the date” nuptial notices for 2024. It seems...

The post-pandemic recovery continues to baffle economists. In May, the U.S. economy added 339,000 jobs, far greater than the 180-200,000...

With graduation season winding down, now may be a good time to refocus attention towards those who are earlier in the process — the ones...

Confidence is an essential component of the financial system. Without it, worried depositors pull their money from banks; spooked...

If you want to see the effects of the Federal Reserve’s interest policy over the past three years, look no further than the nation’s...