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....
Sep 25, 2024
From available doctors to income tax rates, here’s what to think about before deciding to live elsewhere. More than 338,000 Americans moved for retirement in 2023, according to a January study from HireAHelper, a moving-services marketplace. And a quarter of them...
Sep 18, 2024
Most parents financially support their young adult children. Communication and deadlines can help. Kids, it turns out, need their parents even after they’re all grown up. About 6 in 10 parents say they’ve helped their young adult children financially within the past...
