getty You’ve learned why it’s important to avoid investment products once you enter your retirement. If you’re lucky, you can, and maybe you should, begin transitioning your investments to individual securities well before you earn that gold watch. “Typically, the further one gets away from owning individual investments, the higher the costs become,” says Stephen […]
Bitcoin, Ethereum, cryptocurrencies getty After dropping from just above 67,500 to a low near 15,000, a 77 % loss from peak to trough, Bitcoin then spent about 13 months going mostly sideways. Then, suddenly, this week buyers appeared, and prices headed up again just as if the old days had returned after a long, long […]
| Getty Images Key Takeaways Inflation has been on a downward trend since July 2022, but that doesn’t mean we are out of the woods. While the Fed aims to bring inflation down to 2% or less, the latest CPI numbers show inflation at 7.1%. The most significant contributor to the most recent CPI numbers […]
| Getty Images Key Takeaways Just because there’s a recession doesn’t necessarily mean rent prices go down. In fact, during the 2008 recession, it was the exact opposite. In the current rental market, we have seen the rate of increase in rental prices come down, but this only translates to lower rent prices if you’re […]