Most springs, disaster comes in the form of violent weather emergencies, not a Covid-19 virus pandemic. Do you have a financial emergency kit ready? Maybe you could have used one in early March when you first heard you would shelter-in-place and social distance for awhile. Who knew our home-bound days would last far beyond Easter…
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What do you know about your benefits?
Are you underestimating the power of saving? Unfortunately several years of crappy interest rates on savings accounts has caused many of us to ignore the benefits of learning to be a saver. Even some who regularly socked away a little something have abandoned their steady savings habit. What’s the point, with no rewards…right? Why not…
Taking the Plunge if I’m Scared to Invest
Is there an ideal time to invest? Is the stock market ever not volatile? Naturally peppered with daily economic and political events around the globe, the market seems to zigzag more like a jackrabbit than plod along like a tortoise. Yet looking back over the last 200 years, the stock market ups and downs made a slow, steady climb upward. It…