Tag: spending
This blog has spilled plenty of ink over the problem of so many workers having inadequate retirement savings. One theory is that they don’t understand the urgency. But a new survey makes clear that they not only are fully aware of the problem but are very worried about it. The vast majority of the 1,000-plus…
Marketplace recently estimated that a family’s common expenses have increased 30 percent since the 1990s. This was based on the inflation-adjusted prices for 11 necessities and small luxuries, from food, housing, college, and medical care to movie tickets and air fare. On the income side of the household ledger, one well-known study estimates that the lifetime, inflation-adjusted incom…
