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'I do all the yard work, cooking and cleaning': I live with my daughter and her lazy boyfriend. She wants me to buy her house. Do I say yes?
There is tension in the house. When I say anything, I am immediately wrong - unless my daughter wants something, and then she's sickly sweet. OK, I have a small pension of $1,500, Social Security of ...
You're running out of time to buy an EV before Trump's big bill kills the $7,500 tax credit on electric vehicles
The $7,500 tax credit that car shoppers can use for new EV purchases is set to expire at the end of September, according to the tax and spending bill that Trump signed into law Friday. The same goes ...
'Today is my 61st birthday': I have my ex-spouse's Social Security benefits. Should I retire at 65 and travel?
If you can keep working while looking after your health, do it. You get 100% of your Social Security benefit at full retirement age, which is 67 for anyone born in 1960 or after, and you receive a ...
Why anyone selling a home should be following the 'Zillow ban' lawsuit closely right now
In the first lawsuit, the real-estate brokerage Compass (COMP) accused Zillow of being anticompetitive with its new rule banning any home listings from the platform that appear on any other service ...
Silver could be the trade of the decade. This is how to play it so you don't miss out.
Silver's outperformance typically follows a predictable pattern: quiet accumulation, skepticism and then a breakout that catches markets by surprise. Fred Hickey, author of The High-Tech Strategist, ...
There's a 68% chance that stocks will rise by year-end. Do you feel lucky?
You may decide that a 1-out-of-3 chance of losing money is too high, and therefore choose to stay out of stocks. But you're kidding yourself if you think the odds will ever be any better. The ...
Is a master's degree worth it anymore? These Gen Z grads have seen higher unemployment rates than most.
The unemployment rate for Gen Z graduates with a master's degree or higher averaged 5.8% in the first half of 2025, up from just 3% in the same six-month span a year earlier, based on data from the St ...
Smart Investor: Top-Performing Dividend Stocks, Which Stocks Led the Q2 Rally and a Deceptive Jobs Gain
Alongside these stories, we have our regular quarterly screens to highlight key market trends. We’ve got the second quarter’s ...
Investors traded a record $6.6 trillion worth of stock in the first half of 2025
Yet retail investors' behavior showed that they were bullish in the face of all of this. Cumulative net retail inflows hit $137.6 billion into U.S. single stocks and exchange-traded funds the first ...
Now that the megabill has passed, expect a ton of short-term debt to be sold to finance the government's deficit
With Trump's megabill clearing a final 218-214 vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday and getting the president's signature Friday, the prospect of a surge in T-bills in what's known as the ...
Will Trump's megabill cut your taxes? Check this number on your tax return for the answer.
The megabill that's bound for the president's desk contains tax breaks that could save some Americans - including tipped workers, employees working overtime, car buyers, seniors and certain homeowners ...
Tax breaks and spending cuts: Here are the winners and losers in Trump's big bill
But the bill is about more than tax cuts, and its myriad provisions mean that some Americans will benefit from the legislation while others will lose out. For a law Trump calls the "One Big Beautiful ...