"inflation"

For most of us, our view of housing is rooted in the 1950s, as are our views of working and retirement. The 50s shaped so much of our thinking that …

The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer …

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are a single missed paycheck away from financial disaster. The math is straightforward and brutal; it’s all about the odds. Roughly four in ten Americans are …

You can’t see inflation and, in the last few decades, you haven’t even been able to feel it. That’s because inflation is an expert at camouflage. Inflation knows how to …

It looks as though we’re going to need to modify the old saying about the rich getting richer to the rich are paying off debt while the poor are racking …

Not all mistakes are created equal. There are some mistakes that will cripple your finances for decades and leave you with less money in retirement. Since we’re human beings, it’s …

Most older Americans can remember the days when the dollar was king. You could go anywhere in the world and dollars would be eagerly accepted. Goods and services could be …

For many 2014 went into the books as the year of the rent increase. That wouldn’t happen again they said; rents couldn’t keep going up that fast they said. They …

Anyone alive back in the 1970s remembers the term “stagflation” that went around a lot in those days. Stagflation was basically an amalgam of the unemployment rate, plus the inflation …

Yes, the double digit stock market increase gravy train is over, probably for a long time. What we’ll see instead are years of returns that are normal to slightly below …