Investment

Budget Battles

  • Protect your financial life by topping off your piggy bank, writes Ben Stein.

    How to Save Like Your Life Depends On It

    By BEN STEIN

    From The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth. Do you enjoy worrying about money? Lying in bed in the middle of the night, listening to the faucet drip, wondering where...

  • Inflation: 'Financial Death by a Thousand Cuts'

    By The Fiscal Times Staff

    According to Wharton insurance and risk management professor Kent Smetters, inflation "destroys the value [of investments] gradually by eroding real returns over time." In the first installment of a...

  • 8 big ones – and how to avoid them.

    8 Roth IRA Conversion Traps to Avoid

    By Chris Morris

    When converting to a Roth IRA, watch out for conversion taxes, benefit losses, required minimum distributions and other traps

  • The early bird may get the worm, but the early saver gets a big bank account.

    The Best Years of Your Life

    By Jane Bryant Quinn

    Earn larger returns by saving early and use the Rule of 72 to figure how long it takes to double your money

  • High-yield checking accounts offer top rates but some customers must jump through a series of hoops to earn those returns.

    High-Yield Checking Perks Have Strings

    By Sheyna Steiner

    High-yield checking accounts may offer enticing interest rates, but watch out for required monthly transactions and inflated yield balance caps