"When you owe the government money, they're not very happy. And you probably owe the government money with pulling out from that Roth IRA." That line came from Caleb Hammer on his Financial Audit…
On The Investing for Beginners Podcast, host Evan Ray offered a take that runs counter to most rate-hike headlines: when banks pay more to borrow, savers get a raise. As he put it, “you…
Transferring a retirement account between custodians is one of those mundane logistical tasks that triggers outsized emotional reactions. A caller named D recently phoned in to Talking Real Money with exactly that anxiety, telling…
On a recent episode of the Retire SMART Podcast, the host put a number on the long-term care problem that most baby boomers still treat as someone else’s issue: about 75% of baby boomers…
A free steak dinner. A chart with a green line climbing past a red line. A pitch about a $1 million investment that becomes $1.5 million thanks to a 54% bonus that “expires in…
A listener named Suzanne from Austin wrote into the How to Money podcast with a question I think a lot of points-and-miles people quietly wrestle with: she earns “several thousand dollars every year” from…
Historian and investor Joseph Moore has a way of reframing market history that makes long-time investors blink. On a recent Motley Fool Money appearance discussing his book How to Get Rich in American History:…
The Oracle of Omaha’s wildest market call has a surprisingly boring math problem behind it In September 2017, the most famous investor in the world stood up at a party for Forbes magazine’s 100th…
Cody Berman, who appeared on The Personal Finance Podcast in an episode titled “How to RETIRE BY 30! (With Cody Berman),” made a confession most side hustle gurus never will. He used to brag…
44 broken bones for $130,000 a year A professional freestyle motocross rider called The Ramsey Show with a simple problem and a brutal scorecard. “I average on a healthy year, I’m about $125,000, $130,000…
The paycheck hits fatter after overtime, and the mental accounting starts immediately. That extra $37.41 an hour, plus the time-and-a-half premium, gets reclassified as “found money.” A nicer dinner. A weekend trip. The new…
Imagine your mother has a stroke. You are her power of attorney. You have her bank passwords written down in a notebook she left you. You sit at her kitchen table, log into her…
A dog trainer from Alaska called into The Ramsey Show recently and almost broke down on air. She had been self-employed for seven years and finally sat down to build her first real budget.…
On a recent episode of How to Money, a listener named Suzanne asked whether she should track her credit card rewards as part of her monthly budget. The hosts pushed back hard. I’ve been…
In the fall of 1999, two writers walked into bookstores with a hardcover called “Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market.” The Dow was hovering just…
Cody Berman went on The Personal Finance Podcast and described hitting financial independence right before his 26th birthday. He held about $500,000 in a Total Stock Market Index Fund, plus 11 rental units purchased…
Ben Carlson, the Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management and longtime blogger at A Wealth of Common Sense, has built his reputation on a contrarian sort of patience. In a recent…
Melissa, a 60-year-old listener of the Afford Anything podcast, called in with a clean question: she has $800,000 saved and owns two rental properties, and she wants to know whether selling one to pay…
On a recent episode of the Rich Habits Podcast titled “169: Our Favorite Passive Income Strategy (2026),” co-host Austin Hankwitz called covered calls “one of the simplest options strategies in investing” and “the freest…
Tiffany Aliche was 30, the Great Recession was eating her job, her credit cards were maxed, and her condo was sliding toward foreclosure. She finally called her best friend Linda and told her everything.…
