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Approaching retirement? What you do with your retirement account in the years leading up to retirement could affect your financial well-being for years to come. One option to consider is rolling over...

One of the biggest motivators for speculative investing remains hidden to most people. If you ask someone who buys and sells stocks with the goal of realizing short-term gains why they do it, they...

Getting your finances under control can bring benefits to many areas of your life. First of all, being on a budget, having funds set aside for unexpected expenses, and putting away money for...

A survey of retirees conducted by OnePoll in partnership with ClearMatch Medicare, found that on average they had to stop working more than a year and a half earlier than they had planned. As a...

We naturally avoid things that scare us. According to a recent survey by Alianz Life Insurance, a "remarkable" 61% of Americans say they are more afraid of running out of money in retirement than...

For many working people, the ominous feeling begins on Sunday night. They know that when they wake up on Monday, they are going to have to make it through another tough day at work —research says...

When investing for retirement, success is most likely when you give much less attention to the things you have no control over. For example, if you're constantly monitoring the short-term behavior of...

How Politics Relates to Economics The coincidences in life are amazing. I was a young economics student when the Soviet Union began to collapse, and it was fascinating. We had a visiting professor...

Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket. Have you ever finished someone else’s sentence in your head? And, then been totally surprised by what the person actually said? So, there I was in Opelika, AL....