With Super Bowl Sunday, Mardi Gras, and Valentine’s Day finished, the holiday season is well and truly over. It’s time to get back to the grind, represented by the sometimes frantic, often less-celebratory Tax Day: April 15. So, pack away the team banners, sparkly beads, and heart-shaped cards. The W-2 is arriving (or the 1099 Read more
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Getting a Good Start: A Guide to Investing
Think you don’t have enough money to start investing? Think again. Anyone can learn to begin investing, even if you start your journey with just $100. But when you do start investing, the most important part of the process is to have some basic knowledge. Investing is when you buy something in hopes that it Read more
To-Do List: Time for a New Year of Planning
With the holiday lights and decorations packed neatly (or not) in storage for next season, the party hats and noisemakers swept up with the celebration confetti, and life getting back into its regular rhythm, it’s a good time to reflecting on the past year and important to look at a planning checklist for the next Read more
That College Try: Don’t Delay in Applying for Aid
For prospective college students and their parents, it’s time to knuckle down and apply themselves, literally, by filling out the Free Application for Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA for the 2024-25 award year will be available by December 31, 2023 (delayed from the more usual October 1 release date.). Every high school senior should fill Read more
Our Legislators Try to Avoid Shutdown by Taking the CR, Then Making Two Steps to Stay Off the Omnibus
Though Congress appeared headed for another government shutdown soap opera when the then-current continuing resolution (CR) expired on Nov. 17, we have avoided a closure. The proposal from Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) for a “clean” (no cuts, no amendments) two-part CR passed through Congress on a bipartisan basis and was signed into law by Read more
Landing Craft: How Bumpy Will It Be to Ease Inflation?
In recent conversations about the effort to ease inflation, you may have heard about the various landings—from a “soft landing” to a “hard landing” to “no landing” at all. Whichever way we land, we will likely feel some jostling in the economy. What does all of this talk of landings mean? When the Federal Reserve, Read more