Compounding the problem
Are you saving for retirement? Great. But here's an equally important question: what kind of returns are you envisioning in your portfolio? Financial guru Manisha Thakor …Read More
Category Archives: Money
The Princess Problem
(Laura's note: This column originally ran in USA Today on Aug 12, 2009. It's somehow disappeared from the archives, and since I've been getting requests …Read More
Why retire?
The markets have been rallying since October, slowly building a cushion around shaken nest eggs. That sounds like good news for baby boomers approaching retirement …Read More
Welcome to the 1 percent
(Laura's note: my column ran in yesterday's USA TODAY under the headline "Does Income Inequality Matter?" online and "Does Income Gap Matter?" in print.) Income inequality …Read More
Can money buy you balance?
I’m not a big fan of the phase “work-life balance.” It implies that the two concepts (work and life) take up equal space, which is …Read More
Who is my neighbor?
We moved from New York City to the suburbs of Philadelphia in June. Over the past 8 months, I’ve run a variety of different routes …Read More
Round-up: The idea machine
To my new readers of this blog: welcome! Every Friday, I post a round-up of my writing from other places, any media mentions, and other …Read More
The New Tupperware
A few years ago, I went to a Tupperware party in a friend’s apartment. It was a somewhat surreal experience. The official Tupperware representative was …Read More
The Chain (Restaurant) Gang
On Saturday night, my family and I did something fairly new for us: we ate at a chain restaurant. We’d spent the afternoon at Longwood …Read More
After debt freedom
When I started researching All the Money in the World, one of the first things I noticed about the shelves of personal finance books out …Read More