Like baseball, young love, and hay-fever, we’ve entered the high season for taxes. New this year, however, we begin to react to changes in the tax reform law of December 2017. The point of that law was to make the world safe for businesses and their owners, who received healthy tax cuts. If you were […]

Congratulations, America, we did it! We finally broke the $1 trillion barrier for household credit card balances, according to a recent WalletHub Report. This is a somewhat less impressive than Roger Bannister’s breaking of the 4-minute mile barrier in 1954 (RIP Sir Roger, B. March1929 — D. March 2018), or Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepalese […]

For Sonia, it felt like her husband Dave was having a separate relationship, one that didn’t include her. With whom, you may ask? With their household finance spreadsheet. She told me “I felt Dave was having an affair with his spreadsheets, like it was something secret that I couldn’t take part in.” She said she […]

Who wants to play Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Missing Money? How did it disappear? What are clues I can follow to recover it? Today’s post is going to make all of you Watsons just a little bit richer. Have you ever searched the online state databases for money that you’ve somehow lost […]

“Yes, hello? Is this the Human Resources Department? Yes, I’d like to file a complaint about the retirement plan offered here. No, I don’t work actually here. But still, hear me out…” Today is my day to complain about the (somewhat) hidden costs of employer-sponsored retirement plans. These plans come in a variety of flavors […]