Category: Money Messages

How to Avoid Credit Card Debt with an Emergency Fund.

Discusses how different activities that may occur in the summer can have a tax ramification.

With home prices on the rise in many parts of the country, the equity in your home may have increased as well. With social media ads and your financial institution encouraging you to tap into this equity, you might wonder if opening a HELOC makes financial sense.

Creating a retirement nest egg, building an emergency fund, getting out of debt, and saving for other priorities all include one common factor – time. There is no quick way to get to your financial goals.

Conservative investors have long valued the relative stability of bond funds over stocks. So, the decline in value of both stock and bond funds in 2022 may have come as a surprise.

Take some stress out of your summer by spending a day knocking out some financial tasks you know you need to do.

Consider the following steps as you begin the journey to your new home.

Using friction to control spending.

Understand that planning for retirement isn’t just a story of numbers.

Visits to the grocery store are more expensive nowadays than a few years ago, follow the tips below to save some cash.