Terry Savage: Avoid the heartbreak of inheriting a financial mess
To protect yourself from a financial nightmare if your spouse dies, let’s start with the...
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Terry Savage: Last chance to file the FAFSA for your college student
Time is growing short for parents of high school seniors (and those returning to college...
Terry Savage: Bigger tax refunds are coming to seniors, but only if they file a return
The IRS reports that every year more than $1 billion in unclaimed refunds gets left behind at...
Terry Savage: Roth conversions — a good idea?
Would you send the government a big check this year — in return for a...
Terry Savage: Housing affordability is becoming a major personal, political crisis
Housing affordability is going to be a huge topic in both personal finance and politics...
Terry Savage: Tariffs 101
Let’s talk about how tariffs work to impact the economy — without any political considerations...
Terry Savage: Don’t procrastinate on tax filing this year
It’s income tax time again, and this year it’s time to make a big change...
Terry Savage: In these times of uncertainty, where is your ‘chicken money’?
The stock market seems to be taking uncertainty in stride, as I write this column....
Terry Savage: The next direction for interest rates is down
The Fed appears to have done the impossible: reduced inflationary expectations without causing a steep recession...
Terry Savage: What’s in YOUR retirement plan?
What’s inside your retirement plan? That’s a question every boomer should be asking these days, according to...
Terry Savage: It’s scholarship time
Announcing free money! Did that get your attention? If you have a high school child...
Terry Savage: We need a statute of limitations on Social Security clawbacks
These miscalculation cases are all about errors, not fraud.
Terry Savage: As markets hit record highs, complacency is a risk
Pessimism is contagious. And so is optimism. But reality eventually rules. So, perhaps now it’s...