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Instead of putting all your savings into one CD, split it across multiple CDs with staggered maturity dates, say 3, 6, 12, and 24 months. When each one matures, you can reinvest or access the cash. You get higher rates than a savings account without leaving all your money tied up at once. Source

Recently Wes Moss was featured in The Street: Retirement Daily article on Factors, Financial and Otherwise, That Can Lead to a Happy Retirement. Read the excerpted section of the article below. A 2020 meta-analysis found that approximately 28% of retirees are…

I’ve been an investor in the stock market for 50 years. Here’s the one thing that will determine whether the market makes you wealthy or leaves you bleeding on the side of the road: What you do when the market drops. Market drops fall into three broad categories: Corrections, which are drops of ~10% Bear…

Retail prices make poor targets for excise taxAn excise tax is a tax imposed on a specific good or activity. Excise taxes are commonly levied on cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, soda, gasoline, insurance premiums, amusement activities, and betting, and typically make up a relatively small and volatile portion of state and local and, to a lesser extent, federal…