November 16, 2024

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10 financial ‘rules’ you should start breaking now

Rina Risper017 mins

  

 
By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Content Agency
 
You should always max out your 401(k) and save for your kid’s college education in a 529 plan, right? Maybe not. Most experts have long touted a number of practices that may actually be working against you.

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Middle Class Struggles to Preserve Retirement Security

Rina Risper07 mins

 WASHINGTON, D.C.–It’s no secret that retirement security is eroding for many Americans.

 
“Half of today’s working-age households are unlikely to have enough resources to maintain their standard of living once they retire,” according to the National Retirement Risk Index, compiled by Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research.

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The Kid’s Doctor: Are parents too connected?

Rina Risper05 mins

Turn off your phone off sometimes and let your spouse or sitter handle things for a while.

Photo by Fotolia  By Sue Hubbard, M.D.

www.kidsdr.com
 
 

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Interpersonal Edge: Playing blame game is giving up your own power to change

Rina Risper08 mins

  By Dr. Daneen Skube

Tribune Content Agency
 
Q. I’m in the middle of my career and so tired of running into roadblocks to get promoted, get better paid and have projects that are more interesting. I have found the problem is usually my boss, my coworkers and the customers I tend to work with. How can I succeed when the problem is other people?

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Why it’s a mistake to put more than 20 percent down on a home

Rina Risper08 mins

 

By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Content Agency
 
For many families across the country, the concept of buying their next home with cash may sound like a fantasy. Yet according to RealtyTrac, the nation’s leading source for housing data, nearly 40 percent of all U.S. homes purchased in the second quarter of 2014 were cash deals.

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TAX SOLUTIONS:  Business Entity and Liability Protection

Rina Risper05 mins

 

By  A.J. Gross, C.P.A., E.A.

 
We get asked all the time.  How do you set up a business?  Do you need to file anything?  Do you have to register the business?  What type of business do you recommend?  We will tackle these questions in a multi-part series reviewing the different business types: doing business as (DBA), limit liability company (LLC), and corporation.

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Almost anyone can be an organ donor, no matter their age

Rina Risper07 mins

 

Tribune Content Agency 

  DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Is there an age that’s too old to be an organ donor? Also, is marking “organ donor” on my driver’s license the only thing I need to do to become a donor, or would my family still be allowed to make a different decision?

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Interpersonal Edge: Want a new career? Explore new hobbies

Rina Risper07 mins

 

By Dr. Daneen Skube

Tribune Content Agency

  Q. I’m in my 40s and wondering if I picked the wrong career track. I don’t know what else I might want to do, but I feel bored and irritated more often than I ever did when I was young and idealistic. What should I do?

 

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Jill on Money: Did QE work?

Rina Risper07 mins

 

By Jill Schlesinger
Tribune Content Agency
 
 Almost exactly six years ago, the Federal Reserve launched an unconventional program of buying bonds to rescue a faltering economy. 

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