Missed payments can quickly get out of hand if you're not on top of your amount owed and due dates.---Missed bill payments happen to the best of us, and in many cases, the fix is as easy as covering [...]

Committing any of these four common mistakes can set you back in your golden years. Here's how to increase your chances of a successful retirement.--- People spend years, even decades, doing everything they can to save enough for retirement. The [...]

Boost your retirement savings, lower your taxes and get the most out of your health insurance.--- The days are getting longer, and movie marathons of A Christmas Story have begun. That can mean only one thing: You have just a [...]

The Fed's rate cut will provide relief for some borrowers, but savers will have to work harder to get decent returns.--- When the Federal Reserve reduced its benchmark short-term interest rate by half a percentage point in September and then [...]

You may want to consider adding inflation-hedging commodities such as bitcoin and gold to your portfolio.--- In a televised CNBC Squawk Box interview in late October, legendary billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones said he prefers commodities such as [...]

Your guide to tax deductions and credits, how the IRS treats them differently, and how they impact your tax bill.--- Whether you’re filing for the first time or have been around the tax return block, it’s easy to confuse tax [...]

To solidify your retirement plan, write it down, reduce your market risk and allocate more safe money into your plan for income.--- If you're within five or six years of retirement, or if you're already retired, you need to have [...]

Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. Sometimes life happens, and it can get you off track financially. You can have a financial plan, budget and adequate savings. Still, it may not [...]

Poor financial literacy and a lack of foresight have led to this troubling reality. It's going to take tax policy changes, education and more to address it.--- America is grappling with a significant shift that endangers the financial stability of [...]

Retirees aren't feeling that confident about their financial health.--- In 2023, the Retirement Confidence Survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald Research recorded its biggest decline since the global financial crisis of 2008. In EBRI’s 2024 survey, [...]