As mortgage rates continue to fall, buying power is increasing in the U.S. Despite a lower number of homes for sale compared to previous years, many renters are turning to home-buying — leaving a big vacancy in the renter’s market. San Francisco is a prime example. Vacancy rates have more …
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Can this holiday season save nine months of pandemic hardship? Well, maybe if you have a financial strategy. Thrivent’s Holiday and 2021 Outlook Report found that 40% of people with a financial strategy are feeling excited about 2021 and 21% with a strategy are more excited than usual about the …
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yurakrasil / Shutterstock.com Everyone wants to save a buck. But in our pursuit of savings, there are some areas where we shouldn’t cheap out. Following are some items for which spending more cash can be worth every penny. 1. Paint ALPA PROD / Shutterstock.com Cheapo paint may seem like a …
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A double-blinded randomized trial of electroacupuncture found it may result in a modest improvement in daily functioning for those with chronic back pain, though it provided little pain relief. Electroacupuncture uses a small electric current passed between needles, a practice some believe provides additional pain relief compared with regular acupuncture. …
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My last experience with a foldable phone was the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, and I quite enjoyed it, albeit its oddly long shape. Of course, that was so that it could be both foldable and functional. While I never had the chance to review Samsung’s earlier attempts at foldable phones, …
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There’s nothing like sitting around the fire in the fall, sipping on something warm in your mug. And where there’s a fire, there are s’mores. If you’re eating closer to the way your ancestors did, you probably politely pass when the s’mores come out. Now, you can join in the …
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Photo by Aaron Freeman / Money Talks News “Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”— George Jean Nathan Before you head to the polls this year, it’s a good idea to pick up something that seems to be in short supply this year: objective journalism. Take …
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Recently, Dr. Aaron Carroll wrote a wonderful article on COVID-19 and personal risk for the New York Times. The article dove deep into how we, as humans, assess risk in our daily lives and how that normal assessment of risk doesn’t actually match up well to the realities of the …
Read More »1658871559 / Shutterstock.com This story originally appeared on NewRetirement. Your brain is not necessarily set up in a way that makes it easy to plan a secure retirement. You have cognitive biases — faulty ways of thinking that are unfortunately hardwired into your brain — that work against you. Behavioral …
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