Hitting your retirement stride
Not long ago, I passed the two-year mark of my retirement as editor of Kiplinger's. That apparently is something of a milestone. A study by Age Wave and Bank of...
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How being FIRE-ish can help your retirement
It's easy to dismiss the super savers who embrace the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) movement as starry-eyed dreamers. FIRE followers — many of whom are millennials who consider working...
Shedding light on dark patterns
You're on the checkout page of a website when something appears in your shopping basket that you didn't put there — say, you're buying a laptop, but insurance sneaks in,...
How to offset losses from natural disasters
Whether you retire to the coast or stay put in a city, you could end up in the path of a natural disaster. If you suffer property damage from such...
Walk while you work: Add some action to your daily grind with a treadmill or standing desk
We need to deliver some bad news. Are you sitting down? Actually, that's the problem. Studies link sitting all day on your posterior--the way you likely work every day--to numerous...
Risky jobs that pay big bucks
Here's the thing about the dangerous jobs made famous by reality television shows such as "Deadliest Catch" and "Ax Men" -- the pay is generally lousy relative to the considerable...
Don’t let misconceptions about job hunting and the working world bog down your search
It's tough enough even finding a job, much less the perfect job. Misconceptions about job hunting and the working world can easily bog down the search. Improve your chances of...
Give your search a helping hand with alternatives primed for growth
Some career fields are in worse shape than others. We've identified struggling professions that you might want to think twice about entering. All are shedding positions, most are saddled with...
Job prospects in these fields look slim; checkmark your search with alternatives
Two years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicted that overall employment would increase 14.8 percent by 2020; the latest projection is 10.8 percent growth by 2022. "When they...
New reverse mortgage hits the market
If you're shopping for a reverse mortgage, you have a new choice to mull over. The federal government has expanded its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, or HECM, to include a...