Money

If making money was easy, everyone would be rich. The fact that the majority of people in the United States are poor tells you something about investing. It also tells…

If you’ve ever lived in Texas, you get used to the same repetitious weather forecast in the summer. Hot, continued hot, followed by a warming trend toward the end of…

For most of us, our view of housing is rooted in the 1950s, as are our views of working and retirement. The 50s shaped so much of our thinking that…

According to recent surveys, sixty four percent of Americans don’t have a thousand dollars in savings for emergencies. To cover that debt two-thirds of America would have to either borrow…

The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer…

Sometimes there’s no way to put a happy spin on the economic news and this is one of those times. The Royal Bank of Scotland issued this simple assessment of…

There’s news from the stock market and it’s all bad. The best news from the first week of trading in the new year is that the market can’t fall any…

There was general agreement among analysts that 2016 was not going to be a great year for stocks. Yet nothing prepared investors for the brutal reality of the first week…

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are a single missed paycheck away from financial disaster. The math is straightforward and brutal; it’s all about the odds. Roughly four in ten Americans are…

You can’t see inflation and, in the last few decades, you haven’t even been able to feel it. That’s because inflation is an expert at camouflage. Inflation knows how to…