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More Than Just Rates: How to Compare Homeowners Insurance Policies
Buying a homeowners policy for the first time — or shopping around for a new one — can be a challenging experience. Homeowners insurance can seem very complicated, particularly when most of us just want good coverage for our home for common disasters from a reputable insurer at a good price. The first step in a hunt fo
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4 Reasons It’s Actually a Good Time to Buy a House (for Some People)
A record number of Americans think it’s a bad time to buy a house, and with housing costs near an all-time high, it’s hard to blame them. Mortgage
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Millennial Money: 3 steps to breaking unhealthy money habits
Some bad habits affect our physical health, like smoking, nail biting or eating too much junk food. But others take a toll on our financial health.
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Millennial Money: 4 items for your midyear money checklist
A lot can happen in six months. That’s why, as we close out the first half of the year, it makes sense to check in on your financial life. “With
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Millennial Money: How to tell when money advice is bad
There are a lot of people out there who want to tell you what to do with your money. The problem is only some of them know what they’re talking
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What recession? Pessimism recedes for global economy in 2020.
Slowing growth and trade tensions were seen a few months ago as major threats to the global economy. The outlook has shifted notably. A nuanced optimism has crept into the stock markets and forecasts about the world economy. Where traders and economists once predicted a U. S. recession in 2020 or certainly by 2021, man
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7 Ways Rental Properties Can Help You Retire Early
Once upon a time, workers saved up a nest egg over the course of a 40-50 year career, and then spent it down in retirement. And hoped they didn't run out money before kicking the bucket.
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Inflation is Healthy for the Economy – but too much can Trigger a Recession
This article was written by Richard S. Warr, Professor of Finance at North Carolina State University, and originally appeared on The Conversation , a not-for-profit news site dedicated to unlocking ideas and knowledge from academic experts. In a healthy economy, prices tend to go up – a process called inflation. While
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How Tax Reform Has Impacted the Housing Market
When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted in 2017, it reduced tax breaks for homeowners. Mainly, it lowered the cap on the mortgage interest deduction to $750,000, down from $1 million, and the deduction for state and local property taxes was capped at $10,000. At the time, housing experts and economists said the chan
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What to Know About Recent Federal Reserve Guidance and Interest Rate Announcements
The Federal Reserve seems to be doing everything it can to stay out of the way of the stock market. Although the bulls have been on a rampage for the past 10 years, creating and re-creating new highs in every thinkable index, the specter of the hibernating bear looms large. No one wants to be the jerk who wakes it. Ima