The math on parking cash has shifted again. With the Federal Reserve holding its target rate steady at 3.75% since December 11, 2025, and short Treasury bills clearing well above what most banks pay…
On the May 13, 2026 episode of The Clark Howard Podcast, a caller named Lucas from Oklahoma faced a temptation millions of homeowners encounter: “I just hate seeing 80% of mortgage payments go straight…
A caller to the Money Guy Show thought she had financed solar panels on a 30-month loan. Brian Preston ran the numbers and told her the truth: at $120 a month against a $30,000…
The setup sounds almost too clean. A 38-year-old Montana teacher with 8 years of service has exactly $50,000 in a rollover IRA, which happens to be the exact amount needed to purchase 5 years…
On a recent episode of NerdWallet’s Smart Money Podcast titled Budget Rehab: How to Stop Paying Only Interest and Make Real Progress on Credit Card Debt, the hosts delivered the line every borrower needs…
Investment banker and researcher Jeff Hook went on the Rational Reminder Podcast and offered one of the bluntest assessments of private equity any practitioner has put on tape this year. "If was enforced like…
On a recent episode of HerMoney with Jean Chatzky, a listener named Nicole, who earns $115,000 a year, admitted she had stumbled into a problem most Americans would envy. After tracking her spending, she…
The question came from a 49-year-old mother on a recent episode of the Rich Habits Podcast: should she remortgage her house to send her son to a $65,000-per-year college? Co-host Austin Hankwitz did not…
On a recent episode of The Ramsey Show, a 23-year-old named Andrew called in with a story that turns a clean financial situation into a tangled one in a single decision. “I lost someone…
On a recent episode of NerdWallet’s Smart Money Podcast, the hosts laid out a number that should stop any middle-income household cold: middle-income earners are spending 95 cents of every dollar they earn and…
Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management has flagged what he calls “one of the biggest trends that I’ve seen in the wealth management space in the last 5 years”: clients walking in the door…
On a recent live audience taping of The Ramsey Show in Denver, a 29-year-old named Trayvon asked Dave Ramsey, Rachel Cruze, and Jade Warshaw whether he should bend the famous Baby Steps to invest…
Pension funds and university endowments pour billions into private equity, hedge funds, and private real estate. According to investment banker Jeff Hook, the reason has less to do with returns and more to do…
Priya, a 45-year-old caller to Jill Schlesinger’s Jill on Money show, opened with a common knot: she loves her career but her current job has turned ugly. “I have been working a long time,…
A listener named Carrie Anne wrote into the Rich Habits Podcast with a problem most adult children would recognize. She wants to pay her late 60s parents $1,000 a month for watching her kids.…
Real estate investors hit this fork in the road more often than they admit: one rental property is performing beautifully, another is dragging, and the math seems to scream that selling the winner to…
Herb, a retired federal employee featured on the Early Retirement – Financial Freedom podcast, says something most working people would find absurd: he is better with money now that he has stopped earning a…
A high school senior recently told personal finance personality George Kamel her post-graduation plan: become a stay-at-home wife who spends her time shopping, without necessarily having kids. When Kamel asked if she could pull…
The most powerful number in personal finance is the gap between what you earn and what you spend. Cody Berman, speaking with Andrew Giancola on The Personal Finance Podcast, described a year when that…
Meredith Whitney, CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, returned to CNBC May 14, 2026 with a warning that cuts against the “resilient consumer” refrain from bank earnings calls. Her argument: middle-income America has shifted…
