Financial

Marriage counselors often say that the things that cause the most stress for young marrieds are sex, money, and the in-laws. But as time goes by, and especially when retirement looms, money problems tend to jump into the top spot in the marital strife department. It’s one thing to have misunderstandings about spending when both … Read more

The story was all over the news last month as the Food and Drug Administration gave its approval to a controversial new Alzheimer’s drug to be marketed under the brand name Aduhelm. Almost immediately a backlash arose over the fact that the drug doesn’t seem to cause a degree of improvement that would justify its … Read more

We’ve read an untold number of articles warning retirees about the financial pressures they’ll be facing as they grow older. We’ve read endless alerts about the perils of inflation. We’ve seen dozens of articles explaining how many hundreds of thousands of dollars the average senior is going to end up paying for health care. From … Read more

Back when many of our parents and grandparents retired, depending on the type of work they did, the odds were good that they retired with a company pension. Research into the history of pensions shows that, in 1950, one-quarter of the private sector workforce had access to some form of company-ensured pension payments when they … Read more

There are many signs that make us fear that we’re “starting to slip” in the brainpower department. We walk into a room and forget what we came there for. We see an old friend in the grocery store and can’t recall her name. We forget where we put the car keys or the reading glasses. … Read more

“Getting debt-free” has become a common financial mantra. As the years go by and we age toward eventual retirement, the common wisdom has traditionally suggested that we will pay off more and more debt, then step blissfully into our retirement years financially free and unencumbered. But as it turns out, that “common wisdom” of retiring … Read more