Tag: debt

Images of growing stacking coins and Hand putting coin into glas

It was hard to miss the news last year that four out of 10 people couldn’t come up with $400 if they had an emergency. The coronavirus is that emergency – on steroids. A wave of new surveys asking Americans about their personal finances reveal the depth of a crisis that has suddenly befallen untold…

Art of a thumbs up and heart

People born smack in the middle of the baby boom wave, including many of this blog’s readers, are now in their mid-60s and have retired – or, at least, they were planning to retire before the stock market crashed. Some of your favorite articles in the first quarter, based on the blog’s traffic, were about…