While stocks, bonds and money market funds have generated positive returns for the year, a quirk in the calendar is creating deceptively strong performances.
Category: Personal Finances
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How Biden Might Try to Cancel Student Debt Again
The administration proposed to use its “compromise and settlement” powers under the Higher Education Act of 1965. But what does that mean?
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How to Think About Financial Aid and Paying for College
Responses to queries about financial aid, 529 plans, need-blind schools and more.
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Tips for Planning an Affordable Trip When You’re on a Budget
Here are a few strategies to help keep travel costs under control.
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Cruise Line Stocks Have Become Top Performers
Devastated at the height of the pandemic, cruise lines have become top performers.
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Tips for Canceling Online Subscriptions
It’s easy to sign up but not always so easy to stop a service. The F.T.C. is proposing rules to change that.
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How Financial Trauma Affects Your Relationship With Money
Experiences like economic hardship or medical expenses can distort people’s feelings and behaviors around money, causing them to sabotage their financial futures.
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Many Student Loan Borrowers Will Continue to Struggle After Supreme Court Ruling
Those who didn’t complete their degrees and many parents are among the borrowers likely to face challenging times ahead.
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What Will Happen to Your Student Loans Now
The pandemic pause on student loan payments will end soon, but a new system for calculating repayments may lower monthly bills.
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Six Ways You Can Still Cancel Your Student Debt
The Supreme Court’s decision on student loan cancellation does not change programs that help public servants and low-income or disabled borrowers.
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Retiree Medical Costs Expected to Stay Flat in 2023
An estimate puts the average cost over a 20-year retirement at about $157,000. That’s almost double the estimate in 2002.