On the Clark Howard Podcast's March 31, 2026, episode, certified financial planner and Money Matters host Wes Moss laid out a piece of math that quietly rewrites the retirement playbook for affluent savers: “I…
The Medicare card arrives in the mail. You feel healthy. The Plan G quotes look pricey compared to a $0 premium Medicare Advantage plan, so you pick the cheaper option. Five years later, a…
Clark Howard, the consumer advocate behind The Clark Howard Show, has told high-earning listeners to think twice before chasing the backdoor Roth IRA. His position: for couples already maxing a 401(k) and using the…
Suze Orman has spent decades urging Americans to buy long-term care insurance. In her AARP column on the subject, she described spending more than $2 million on her own mother’s late-life care and pushed…
Live Updates Nvidia Upgraded Heading into Earnings9:17am ETWith Nvidia earnings tomorrow, analysts are still upgrading the stock. Most recently, HSBC reiterated its buy rating on the tech giant, with a price target of $325…
The Quote That Reframes Solo 401(k) Strategy On NerdWallet’s Smart Money Podcast episode Is College Worth It in 2026? Plus, How to Split Solo 401(k) Contributions to Save More, the host laid out a…
Live Updates NextEra Energy Buying Dominion8:35am ETNextEra will buy Dominion in an all-stock deal that will unite two key players in a race to meet explosively growing demand from AI data centers. NextEra will…
A 66-year-old who retired at 64 with a $1.4 million 401(k) and a paid-off house took a part-time consulting role 18 months later because grocery and Medicare bills stopped feeling manageable. The 2026 Retirement…
The day after her husband’s funeral in spring 2024, Carol kept filing taxes the way she and her husband always had. Year of death: married filing jointly. Year one and year two, she still…
A couple in their late 50s with a household income of around $300,000 gives roughly $8,000 a year to their church, alma mater, and even local food banks. They take the standard deduction since…
A couple in their early seventies in suburban Boston sits down with their accountant expecting a routine year-end check-in. They own a $2.1 million home, have $1.4 million in retirement accounts, $400,000 in a…
Todd Graves told Masters of Scale host Jeff Berman that his Raising Cane’s business plan earned the worst grade in his partner’s business class, despite being painstakingly detailed. “The professor said, the plan’s exceptional.…
A caller on The Indicator from Planet Money summed up the week’s lithium news in one line: “There is kind of a high environmental cost to getting this lithium out of the earth.” The headline…
A 67-year-old retiree picks up two consulting clients, works roughly 20 hours a week, and bills out at around $50 an hour. That is about $50,000 a year layered on top of Social Security…
On the May 4 episode of How to Money, co-host Joel Larsgaard described setting up a Roth IRA for his daughter at Fidelity. He received a call from the brokerage flagging that most of…
On episode 168 of the Rich Habits Podcast, co-host Robert Croak made a pitch that sounds almost too easy to be a strategy. He noted, “The easiest stream of income you can build because…
Live Updates What Wall Street Expects from Dell Earnings9:30am ETOver the past year, Dell’s rally has been fueled by surging demand for AI and growing expectations that Dell will remain a major beneficiary of…
Dave Ramsey delivers his core message on mortgage debt with characteristic bluntness: “Your most powerful wealth-building tool is your income. Don’t surrender it to debt. Debt is acid that eats your wealth.” Inside the…
On NerdWallet‘s (NASDAQ: NRDS) Smart Money Podcast, Mrs. Dow Jones (Hailey) made a claim that should reshape how readers approach personal finance: “If we try to change behavior without changing belief, it never sticks.”…
Inheriting a parent’s retirement account sounds like a windfall. For a 67-year-old still pulling in a high W-2, it can quietly become one of the most expensive tax events of her life. The real…
