MONEY

Inflation is hitting everyone where it hurts — our wallets. The cost of everyday essentials like food and gas is eroding away the buying power of everyday Americans. Paychecks don’t stretch as far. Grocery bills hurt…

Talk about sticker shock. All these rising prices are absolutely demolishing our bank accounts. With inflation at a 40-year high, the cost of groceries, gas and just about everything else is going through the roof.…

Stocks have fallen into a bear market this year and the Federal Reserve is aggressively raising interest rates in an effort to cool soaring inflation. Many experts believe an economic recession is right around the…

A few years ago, I was invited to participate in a focus group. I visited in-person along with about 15 other people. For two hours, we vented all of our feelings about the ways a particular health insurance company…

Applying to college and figuring out how to pay for it is a rite of passage for many high school seniors. But what about adult students who have been out of school for a while? There’s no school guidance counselor to…

The reality of the tampon shortage is sinking in at checkout counters and in bathrooms across the country. Supply chain issues and inflation have teamed up to make an already complicated time of the month increasingly…

Dear Penny, My mother is 47 and has been increasingly paranoid about her death. She’s not sickly or in bad shape. She’s been getting better about managing her sudden diagnosis of diabetes.  I think she’s doing well for…

Smartphones seem to be getting more and more expensive by the year. Even Apple’s middle-market iPhone 13 comes in at a starting price of $699. That’s not a budget phone. Prospects don’t get better on the Android side…

Maybe you’ve thought about getting life insurance to protect your family in case something happens to you. But you haven’t gotten around to it because — let’s face it — figuring out what kind of policy you really need…

You’ve spent decades in the workforce earning a living, your schedule dictated by the demands of the job. All the while, you’ve been steadily adding to your savings so that one day you could get to this point:…