The high cost of just getting to the hospital
Beginning in 2022, even if you end up in an emergency room, and you find out later that anyone on the medical team was not in your insurer's approved network,...
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Carla Fried: If you can do without, now’s a great time to sell your car
The Covid pandemic has temporarily upended the economics of owning a car. Buying a car has always been an exercise in shelling out money — a lot of money —...
Carla Fried: Will you need long-term care? And what’ll it cost?
Chances are you've come across a headline or two pointing out that retirement healthcare costs will likely run well into the six figures. What often gets lost in translation is...
4 falsehoods that could ruin your finances, and how to overcome them
Researchers call them biases, though we know them as beliefs. They are often deeply held and, over time, ruin our financial lives. A team of behavioral researchers at Morningstar, using...
What’s that college degree worth — $2 million or $248,000?
Whether you plan to be a nurse, an engineer, a pharmacist or a rabbi, it wouldn't hurt to know the long-term financial payback of the college you're planning to attend....
Why you shouldn’t put medical debt on credit cards
We all want to pay our bills and, faced with an unexpected medical expense — $8,000, say, for tests to determine whether one has a life-threatening condition — many households...
Tidying during the pandemic? Go clear out that storage space
Nine months into COVID, if you're the tidying sort, you've probably purged every closet in the house and rearranged every shelf ... multiple times. Don't stop there: Go empty out...
Column: The case for (carefully) spending more in retirement
It may have not felt like it, but saving was the easy part of retirement planning. Just two decisions to make: how much to save and how to invest. Once...
Column: The case for a retirement roommate
According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, more than 40% of people at least age 65 live alone, and 57% of people in their 80s live...
What could cost $900,000? Time off to care for kids
Households with two wage earners face a tough decision in the child-raising years. Given the high cost of taking care of children before they're in all-day school — and, often,...