Oct 23, 2024
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Oct 16, 2024
How much money should you have in your emergency fund? What percentage of your income should you be saving for retirement? Financial questions like these can be high-stakes. And reaching the right decision on them can seem complex and difficult, in part because...
Oct 9, 2024
If you can avoid traveling the Sunday after Thanksgiving, you’ll avoid the worst of the Thanksgiving travel crowds. Thanksgiving week draws major airport crowds, so it can be a brutal time to travel. And in 2024, the number of passengers screened in U.S. airports has...
Oct 2, 2024
Earlier this month, users of TikTok and X learned about a viral “hack” that encouraged bank customers to deposit checks they wrote for amounts greater than their bank balances and then withdraw the money before the check bounced. The only problem? That “hack” was...
Sep 27, 2024
On September 18, 2024, the Federal Reserve announced a 50-basis-point cut to the federal funds rate, while projecting a comparable reduction through the rest of the year. (A basis point is one one-hundredth of one percent.) That was roughly what markets had priced in....
