Are you meeting your financial goals? More specifically, are you saving enough to meet your financial goals? The CEO of insurance giant Assurant recently observed: The reality is, half of Americans can’t afford to write a $500 check. Assurant CEO [ . . . ]
Maintaining a good relationship with your spouse requires work. Hard work. Remaining emotionally connected to your spouse while coordinating the logistics of your daily lives involves true commitment, selflessness, and sacrifice. Debt should not come between you and your spouse. Here are [ . . . ]
Do you want to buy a home? Maybe you want to rent? Do you want to buy a car? Or a boat, or a wedding ring? Do you want to borrow some money and make improvements to your home? Or would [ . . . ]
An early 2016 study by insurance and investing behemoth Northwestern Mutual revealed some interesting insights into several issues impacting people’s long-term financial security. Here are the top 9 financial fears in America. The 9 Biggest Financial Fears for Americans Number One and [ . . . ]
Many companies (like LifeLock, Identity Guard, and IdentityForce) offer to monitor your credit report and alert you if something suspicious happens. These companies charge a monthly fee, between $9.99 and $29.99 per month. All three credit bureaus also offer credit monitoring services for various [ . . . ]
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington, D.C. leads the nation in complaints about debt settlement companies. In the CFPB’s latest monthly complaint report, the District of Columbia registered 893 complaints per 100k population. By contrast, Maryland had 521 [ . . . ]
I periodically review debt management books to see if there are any new methods that might be useful to my clients. I just finished the book Dear Debt: A Story About Breaking Up with Debt by Melanie Lockert. The book [ . . . ]
A recent GOBankingRates.com survey reveals some alarming news. Half of Americans have no money in their savings account or even no savings at all. In a Google Consumer Survey, 49 percent of Americans reported they have no cash reserve. 62 percent reported [ . . . ]
Payday loans are bad news. If you are thinking about taking out a payday loan, which can legally lend at usurious interest rates, first consider one of these options: Borrow money from a friend or family member Ask your boss [ . . . ]
Austrian-born American economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term creative destruction in 1942. “Creative destruction” is the willful reconfiguration of an existing economic system in order to clear the ground for the creation of new wealth. There are obviously [ . . . ]
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