When it comes to your finances, I'm a believer that less really is more. Not only with the number of funds you're using, but also with the number of accounts you have.
With everyone basically working from home during the pandemic, many people are looking to take the home office deduction. But not everybody qualifies. When is it legit and the right thing to do?
Even though we've saved a lot money, I'm feeling a bit worried as my wife prepares to leave the workforce later this year. Will we be okay?
43-years-old and saving very aggressively for retirement with everything in stocks and not feeling the urge to have any bond allocation. Is it a mistake?
The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks nor in the historic record of modern capitalism has there been a moment in which 95 percent of the world's economies were suffering all at the same time.
Across the world hundreds of millions have lost their jobs. And over it all looms the specter of pandemic, and death.
Our guest this weekend, Adam Tooze, brings his analytical and narrative skills to a panoramic and synthetic overview of our current crisis.
In Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, he sets the pandemic story in a frame that casts a sobering new light on how unprepared the world was to fight the crisis, and how deep the ruptures in our way of living and doing business are.
The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks nor in the historic record of modern capitalism has there been a moment in which 95 percent of the world's economies were suffering all at the same time.
Across the world hundreds of millions have lost their jobs. And over it all looms the specter of pandemic, and death.
Our guest this weekend, Adam Tooze, brings his analytical and narrative skills to a panoramic and synthetic overview of our current crisis.
In Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy, he sets the pandemic story in a frame that casts a sobering new light on how unprepared the world was to fight the crisis, and how deep the ruptures in our way of living and doing business are.
Yours truly and Parents Digital Content Director Julia Dennison joined CBS Mornings to talk about how the child care crisis impacts the economy. We also offered creative solutions and advice for parents.
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I'm in my 50s and trying to make up ground, am I on track or is there something else I need to be doing?
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Here's the actual email from our latest caller:
I was hoping you could provide some perspective and thoughts on where we are for our retirement horizon and what (if anything) you would suggest doing with additional cash...
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With a large inheritance on the horizon, is it okay if we give ourselves permission to spend some of it?
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With a lot of money in tax-deferred accounts, how concerned should you be about doing Roth conversions as you head into retirement?
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Handling an inheritance is not always straightforward, especially when there's several parties involved.
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Our rental property is cash flow positive and worth $600k, should we sell it? Or hang on to it for the income?
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Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea that even many of the world's finest investors couldn't beat the market in the long run.
The motley crew of nerds, including economist wunderkind Gene Fama, humiliated industry executive Jack Bogle, bull-headed and computer-obsessive John McQuown, and avuncular former WWII submariner Nate Most, succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Passive investing now accounts for more than $20 trillion, equal to the entire gross domestic product of the US, and is today a force reshaping markets, finance and even capitalism itself in myriad subtle but pivotal ways.
Yet even some fans of index funds and ETFs are growing perturbed that their swelling heft is destabilizing markets, wrecking the investment industry and leading to an unwelcome concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands.
In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of an invention Wall Street wishes was never created, bringing to life the characters behind its birth, growth, and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon.
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Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly assembled in the financial industry's backwaters, unified by the heretical idea that even many of the world's finest investors couldn't beat the market in the long run.
The motley crew of nerds, including economist wunderkind Gene Fama, humiliated industry executive Jack Bogle, bull-headed and computer-obsessive John McQuown, and avuncular former WWII submariner Nate Most, succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
Passive investing now accounts for more than $20 trillion, equal to the entire gross domestic product of the US, and is today a force reshaping markets, finance and even capitalism itself in myriad subtle but pivotal ways.
Yet even some fans of index funds and ETFs are growing perturbed that their swelling heft is destabilizing markets, wrecking the investment industry and leading to an unwelcome concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands.
In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid secret history of an invention Wall Street wishes was never created, bringing to life the characters behind its birth, growth, and evolution into a world-conquering phenomenon.
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Here we go, the latest early retirement question. This time from a couple currently 59 and 60 and looking to call it quits in the near future and do some extensive travel. Doable?
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A record-breaking 4.3 million workers quit their jobs in August, the highest number ever recorded. People from all across the pay spectrum resigned, some because of low pay, others from burnout and the desire for a better work-life balance.
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Rather than pay more in fees, does it make sense to replicate a target date fund on your own with individual index funds?
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Retirement at 62 is not always a given, but when you have an amazing perk that most don't, it certainly makes things a lot more doable.
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Just because you're officially retired doesn't mean the questions stop. Sometimes that's when the questions just begin, especially when it comes to old workplace retirement plans.
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