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Are we still talking about inflation? Yes, we are.

When the government released the November Consumer Price Index (CPI), it showed progress. The headline CPI tumbled to an annualized pace of 3.2 percent, from 3.7% the ...Read More

Years ago, as disruption was forcing many in the financial services industry to come to terms with declining mutual fund and trading fees, one stockbroker said to me, “I’m going into real estate, because the 6 percent ...Read More

As open enrollment packages for healthcare coverage roll in, you might be tempted to tune out and default to whatever you elected for 2023.

That would be a shame, because health insurance varies widely from year to year ...Read More

Unless you have been hiding underneath a rock, you know that interest rates have been marching higher since the Federal Reserve began its inflation-fighting campaign.

Although the central bank only controls short-term ...Read More

Before COVID, the annual October ritual of announcing the following year’s Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for Social Security recipients was a sleepy event. But since the inflationary spike that started in 2021, ...Read More

Over the past year, I have been helped settle one estate and have served as co-executor on another one. The process has caused me to rethink my usual approach to National Estate Planning Awareness Week (October 16 – 22),...Read More