Tag: spending
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…
Two of our readers’ favorite articles so far this year connected difficult bread and butter issues – personal finance and retirement – with a far more pleasant topic: travel. The most popular blog profiled a Houston couple scouting locations for a dream retirement home in South America, which has a lower cost of living. Another…
