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Financial Wellness 10/22/2025
When people are asked to predict what their lives will be like in the future, their imagined outcomes are usually colored by psychological biases. One of them is the belief that they will be a...


Financial regret is common. In one nationally representative study in which people were asked to name a significant life regret, finances made the top five most mentioned. Ranking ahead of...

Saving for retirement is a big challenge. In order to be able to live without a job, a person needs to accumulate a significant nest egg of assets that can be turned into cash flow. To do this...

Comedian Chip Leighton is known for collecting hilariously uninformed texts between teens and their parents. One of the subject’s teens seem to have little practical knowledge about is money—how you...

In 1902 the New York Evening World newspaper used the phrase "feel like a million bucks." This was a brand new idiom for expressing a feeling of extraordinary well-being.1 At the time, surgeons and...

Benjamin Franklin was so varied in his accomplishments; he almost seems like a mythical character. One of the leading scientists of his time, he discovered key principles of electricity and first...

We love our cars. They get us to work. Haul all our stuff home from the store. And allow us to enjoy those weekend road trips in comfort. But even more than that, a car is a powerful personal...

In some ways, planning for retirement is abstract. You talk about things like dreams, goals, and second chapters. But in other ways, it's just simple math. You're going to need X amount of dollars...

A successful investor maximizes gain and minimizes loss. Though there can be no guarantee that any investment strategy will be successful, and all investing involves risk, including the possible loss...

Every May, new graduates cross the stages of universities across the Nation. The latest graduates begin a new phase of financial independence. As has always been the case, graduates will face an array...