Working Americans saving and investing for retirement are often seeking the best tools to help them get the most from their money. In my years of reporting on Americans’ personal finance concerns, I’ve consistently found 401(k) plans and Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to be among the most widely used vehicles to drive people’s post-career dreams. […]
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After an especially bruising week of hot back-to-back inflation headlines, increasing uncertainties about the end of the Iran war’s energy shocks, and a flaccid state visit to China, the bond market’s outlook for a Fed interest-rate hike this year flexed. Long-dated Treasury yields pushed sharply higher, with bond traders upping the risk that the central
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TheStreet aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Like many people, I have too much stuff. And there’s a good chance that you do, too. How do I know this? It’s because there are over 50,000 self-storage facilities in
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Seven years after Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 went down outside Addis Ababa, a federal jury in Chicago is still assigning a dollar value to what Boeing’s failures cost one family. On May 13, that number came in at $49.5 million. The verdict is not large enough to threaten Boeing’s balance sheet. But the case it
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A 68-year-old caller from Omaha, Nebraska, recently sat at the center of a question millions of retirees wrestle with after leaving the workforce. He was debt-free, drawing a steady income from his retirement accounts, and surrounded by friends pushing him to buy rental property as protection against inflation. His wife pushed back, urging him to
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Cruising has become a popular vacation option at least partly because of the value proposition it offers compared to a land-based vacation. Value is consistently among the top three reasons people board one of Royal Caribbean’s 68 ships, Royal Caribbean Group CFO Naftali Holtz told the Wall Street Journal. “The cost of a cruise is
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Warren Buffett spent years telling anyone who would listen that airlines were a value trap. He famously said a far-sighted capitalist should have shot down Orville Wright’s plane at Kitty Hawk. And then he sold every airline stock he owned during the pandemic, worth north of $4 billion, at a loss. “It turned out I
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Most coverage of the New York Fed’s newest household debt report stopped at the surface number, missing where the deeper story begins to unfold. Americans collectively paid down $25 billion in credit card balances during the first quarter of 2026, pulling the national total down to $1.25 trillion. The figure marks the first quarterly drop
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Saving for retirement in a traditional IRA or 401(k) may have seemed like the right choice each year you made those contributions. But if you have all of your savings in a traditional retirement account, you could have a tax headache on your hands once required minimum distributions, or RMDs, begin. RMDs force you to
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Although Hayden Panettiere’s personal life often overshadows her acting career, she has spent the majority of her life hard at work. From her first commercial appearances as an infant to her breakthrough role in 2006 as Claire Bennet, the cheerleader with healing powers on NBC’s Heroes, Panettiere generated substantial wealth in the process. When Heroes
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