(Part 3 in a series of articles about home ownership) Your home could be your most versatile and valuable financial asset. Here in the third in a series of articles from the Financial Planning Association® (FPA®) about home ownership, we…

Money and household finances are among the most important topics that families and couples should be discussing, especially during periods of economic stress. Yet many of us would prefer to talk about just about anything other than money. Indeed, in…

All it took was a matter of weeks for the Covid-19 pandemic to turn what had been a prolonged period of low unemployment into a muddle of lay-offs, pay cuts, furloughs, lost income and overall unemployment levels not seen since…

If you’re stressed about your financial situation, if you’re worried about covering your expenses from week to week and month to month, if you’re fretting about your employment status or about finding work after losing your job, if you’re concerned…

It was President John F. Kennedy who famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” As the current global health crisis has made clear, the compact between the U.S.…

The pandemic-stricken American public had reason to emit a deep sigh of relief this spring after the U.S. Treasury Department announced a timely — and in many cases urgently needed — postponement of the deadline for filing 2019 federal income…

It will forever be remembered as the COVID-19 Crisis of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic turned an unprecedentedly long bull market into a bear market in the matter of a week. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic brought a halt to a…

Suddenly a big “What if?” has become a big “What now?” Not only has the longest economic expansions in recent American history come to an abrupt end as a result of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, economies around the world have…