In the world of personal finance, some topics are serious—and others less so. Since it’s the holiday season, it seems appropriate to look back at some of the year’s less weighty stories. Early delivery. The year started off on a positive note for an Alabama couple. Sha'Nya Bennett was in labor and [...]
Holiday reading list
Looking forward to some downtime over the holidays? Below are some new personal finance books and articles to consider. A Richer Retirement by William Bengen – Back in the 1990s, financial planner William Bengen developed what’s come to be known as the 4% rule. It’s a framework to help retirees [...]
Navigating Washington’s war of words
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee met and decided to lower interest rates by a quarter-point. This immediately sparked a war of words. At a press conference, Fed chair Jerome Powell took a swipe at the White House, blaming the president’s new tariff policies for an [...]
Managing market risk
Critics of index funds are pursuing a new line of attack. Passive investing, they argue, is distorting market prices and creating an unhealthy bubble. To be sure, the market today is expensive. The price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of the S&P 500 stands at about 22. That’s substantially above its [...]
Planning for 2026
In the summer of 1966, author John McPhee spent two weeks lying on a picnic table in his backyard. Why? In short, McPhee was suffering from writer’s block. As he described it, “I had assembled enough material to fill a silo, and now I had no idea what to do with it.” Investors today find themselves [...]
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