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 January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was officially inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) briefly rallied to $109,000 within a few hours before retracing to $102,000 as the…
The Alerian MLP ETF (NYSEARCA:AMLP) is the kind of income vehicle that gets ignored at retirement planning meetings, even though it pays more than twice the 4.6% available on a 10-year Treasury. For a…
A new federal incentive is about to change retirement savings for millions of lower and middle-income Americans. On April 30, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Treasury to launch TrumpIRA.gov by…
A 65-year-old single retiree with $2 million split across IRAs and a brokerage account may sound set for life. The number on the statement says “wealthy.” But the number that lands in the checking…
During Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction) Q4 FY2026 earnings call in late February this year, the company’s VP of Investor Relations said “Physical AI is here,” something that the company’s financials are also corroborating.…
The iShares U.S. Pharmaceuticals ETF (NYSEARCA:IHE) is the rare fund that has spent the past year being publicly threatened by the President of the United States and quietly outperforming nearly every healthcare benchmark anyway.…
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 iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT) and the Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (NASDAQ:FDIG) offer fundamentally different exposures. One holds bitcoin itself. The other holds companies that touch bitcoin. So far in…
A 67-year-old retiree with $920,000 in savings and a $2,800 monthly Social Security benefit appears to have a comfortable setup. With annual spending totaling $58,000, the portfolio only needs to generate about $24,400 per…
A 55-year-old anesthesiologist clearing $450,000 a year decides she is done with hospital call schedules. She wants to consult two days a week, draw down some of her 401(k) to bridge the income gap,…
Shares of Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM | ARM Price Prediction) are trading higher by 4% in midday action Tuesday, extending a year that has put the chip-IP designer in a class of its own among…
Shares of Pinterest (NYSE:PINS | PINS Price Prediction) are down 6% in midday trading on Tuesday, changing hands near $18.75. The selling is sharper than what’s happening at the rest of the social media…