Flextirement: Can it help prevent brain drain as boomers and Gen X-ers retire?
I spoke to some experts on the topic: Neil Costa, the writer of the Fast Company article and the one who coined the term flextirement; C...
January 2024
Money manager who nailed two big market rebounds, says bet on these stocks next.
Investors look set to close out January with profit-taking on Big Tech after Microsoft, Google and AMD didn’t quite bedazzle, as a Fed deci...
Trump takes credit for stocks’ jump yet his Fed may be not only dovish but weird
“ ‘THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT ...
We have $300K on our mortgage. Should we use the money in our CDs to pay it off?
Dear Big Move, My husband is 66 and I am 61, and we have a 30-year mortgage at 4.99% with a current balance of $306,000. We have severa...
I want my son to inherit my $1.2 million house. Should I leave it to my second husband in my will? He promised to pass it on.
My husband and I signed a prenuptial agreement before we married. This is my second marriage, his first. He has no children. I have one chi...
We’ve $1.3 million in IRAs and $1.15 million in cash. What should we do with it?
Dear MarketWatch, I’m 72 and married to my spouse, 71. We have one son, 45, who lives in California. We give him and his family $20,00...
Opinion: Recession was inevitable, economists said. Here’s why they were wrong.
In an August 2022 CNBC interview, Steve H. Hanke, a Johns Hopkins University economics professor, predicted: “We’re going to have one whopp...
The U.S. dollar had a strong start to 2024. Here’s why it’s unlikely to last.
The U.S. dollar has had a relatively strong start to 2024 — but some analysts believe the greenback is still more likely than not to dep...
‘They’ve no running water’: Our neighbors ask for money. How can I stop this?
This man and his wife have fallen on hard times, but in reality they have been in this predicament for decades. He hasn’t had a job for man...
This is why I’m not paying my student loans
A huge chunk of student-loan borrowers simply aren’t paying. The pandemic pause on payments may have ended in October, but roughly 40% ...
Treasury yields dip ahead of GDP and jobless claims data
Bond yields fell early Thursday ahead of an important batch of economic data in the next few sessions that may color the Federal Reserve’s...
The gulf between winners and losers could mean problems for the S&P 500
That the S&P 500 managed to log its first record close in more than two years late last week should be boosting investors’ confidence....
I’m 76 with no relatives. What should I do with my estate?
Dear MarketWatch, I’m 76 and have been widowed since 1994. I’m retired in South Carolina. I have savings of $620,000, Supplemental Sec...
My mom refuses to move out of my house. She paid for upkeep and appliances.
I live in Florida and bought a house in 2011. My mother moved in about a year later. We never discussed if this was permanent or not, but a...
49ers QB Brock Purdy made less money this year than 16 college football players
Brock Purdy signed a four-year contract with the San Francisco 49ers in 2022 that turned out to be one of the biggest bargains in the le...
