by Justin Knapp | Apr 23, 2018 | Current Affairs, Financial Articles
Cost of a three-year extended warranty for a dishwasher: $157.97. Average cost of a dishwasher repair: $159. The fact that service contracts often cost about the same as a repair is just one reason extended warranties — also known as service contracts and protection...
by Justin Knapp | Mar 26, 2018 | Current Affairs, Financial Articles
President Trump’s new tax law has caused concern among homeowners looking to borrow against the equity in their houses. The legislation appeared to eliminate the deduction taxpayers get for the interest owed on home-equity loans, but after prodding from lobbying...
by Justin Knapp | Feb 15, 2018 | Financial Articles
Periodic rebalancing is generally a good way to keep your investing strategy on track and to prevent your portfolio from becoming too risky during market surges (like the one we’ve been experiencing in recent years) or too conservative after big market setbacks....
by Justin Knapp | Feb 15, 2018 | Financial Articles
It’s the big question at the heart of all retirement planning: how long will you live, and by extension, how long should your money last? But you don’t need to tie yourself up in existential—or actuarial—knots trying to answer the unanswerable, financial advisors say....
by Justin Knapp | Jan 30, 2018 | Current Affairs, Financial Articles
With the current 106% debt-to-GDP ratio, there’s no doubt that today’s government debt is high. The last time the United States reached this mark, it was during the aftermath of WWII in the late 1940s. But despite nearly historic debt levels, it does not seem that the...
by Justin Knapp | Jan 16, 2018 | Current Affairs, Financial Articles
In Periods of Rising Rates, Higher Income Can Help Keep Returns Positive As the Fed continues on a path of gradually raising interest rates, many investors are moving to cash, short-term bonds and floating-rate securities. But the view that bonds have to suffer losses...
