How to Use an HSA to Save a Lot
It’s possible to amass $1 million in special health savings accounts to use in retirement, a new analysis finds, with ...
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How to Back Up All Your Data and Important Documents
In recent weeks, Elon Musk and his aides have gained access to many federal agencies’ systems and unknown amounts of ...
Medicare Doesn’t Pay for Everything: How to Bridge the Cost Gap
Medicare can cover most of your health care needs when you turn 65, but it doesn’t pay for everything. And ...
Which Interest Rate Should You Care About?
Watch out for interest rates.Not the short-term rates controlled by the Federal Reserve. Barring an unforeseen financial crisis, they’re not ...
How to Pay Off Credit Card Debt
Ms. Harris suggests that her clients try “Frugal February” — avoiding discretionary spending and impulse purchases, and putting the money ...
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
The day before Linda Wetzel closed on her retirement home in Southport, N.C., in 2012 — a cozy place where ...
Sharing Bank Accounts Can Deepen a Couple’s Relationship
When Nia Darville Stokes-Hicks and Armondi Stokes-Hicks married two years ago, they set up five bank accounts.Each had an individual ...
Why Banks May Be Hoping You’re Not Paying Attention
The median American household has a combined balance of $10,000 in its checking and savings accounts, according to a census ...
The Fed Is Sitting on the Sidelines, but for How Long?
The relative calm in the markets may not survive upheaval in the A.I. sector and a deluge of disruptive Trump ...
You Can No Longer Buy Paper Inflation Bonds With Your Tax Refund
You can still get your tax refund sent to your checking account, say, and then use the money to buy ...
How Fed Rates Influence Mortgages, Credit Cards, Savings and More
The Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key rate steady on Wednesday, after a series of cuts that lowered ...
Financial Advice on Social Media Is Growing. And Risky.
Amy Ryan was panicking about her savings when she went online for advice. It was April 2020, and the stock ...
How Improv Comedians Make a Living Teaching Corporate Workshops
In 1994, Bob Kulhan was in his early 20s and on the path to becoming a marketing executive at a ...
How to Invest During a Presidency With a Deep Devotion to Profits
“The chief business of the American people is business.” That declaration by Calvin Coolidge has been shortened and simplified since ...
IRS Free Tax Filing System Will Include 13 More States
Taxpayers with income of $84,000 or less still have the option of using the separate Free File program, a partnership ...
How to Come Up With a Down Payment on a House
Wishing you could buy a home? It can be challenging to save enough for a down payment, given how much ...
If You’re Retired, or Not: 5 Changes That Will Affect Your Money in 2025
Amid the global turmoil of this young new year comes a flurry of welcome developments that will help many people ...
The Cost of Surviving a Wildfire
Some losses are incalculable. For Ms. Lavasani, it’s the photo albums of her two daughters, Xena and Rezvon, both now ...
What to Know About the E.V. Tax Credit That Trump Might Repeal
Sales of electric vehicles have been rising steadily over the past few years, in part because of a federal tax ...
How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits
The Social Security Administration receives billions in free money each year from an unexpected source: undocumented immigrants.This group paid an ...
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