Retirement income planning is often presented as a search for the best strategy. In reality, most retirees are choosing between...
Hillary Mendes
You can catch me in the morning on Coffee with Kem and Hills, or Friday nights on The Wine Down. We talk about what happens with personal finances on a daily basis, or what effects women and their money the most.
Retirement plans do not usually fail because of one catastrophic purchase. More often, they weaken because of a handful of...
Retirement benchmarks are comforting because they make a complicated problem feel measurable. Save two times your salary by 35. Four...
Estate planning is often discussed as if it were a moral exercise: who should get what, what feels fair, what...
Most people do not stay financially stuck because they lack intelligence. They stay stuck because they repeat habits of thought...
Debt has become so normal that many people do not even question it anymore. Car payments, student loans, credit cards,...
One of the easiest places to lose control of your budget is food. Not because groceries are unimportant, and not...
Date night does not have to disappear just because you are trying to save money, pay off debt, build an...
Debt rarely disappears because of one dramatic breakthrough. More often, it shrinks because someone gets serious about cash flow. That...
Most Americans have a sense of whether they feel ahead or behind financially. Far fewer know where they actually stand....
Turning 65 is often described as a Medicare milestone. In reality, it is something more consequential than that. It is...
Retirement does not usually fail because of one bad year. It fails because a bad year arrives at the wrong...
Retirement planning often sounds more complicated than it needs to be. Investors are told to think about withdrawal rates, sequence...
For years, Americans have been taught to approach retirement with a single question: What is your number? The appeal of...
A lot of people assume that once you earn a high enough income, money stress should disappear. The logic seems...
