<!-- --> Posted October 13, 2024 by Ben Carlson Through the end of September, the S&P 500 was up more than 36% in the prior 12 months. That’s a good return. In fact, it’s good enough to put it in the top 10%...

Each year the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) updates consumer expenditure data on how Americans collectively spend and earn their money. These numbers are averages so your personal household budget probably looks different in some ways. Your circumstances — where you live, your standard...

The world has never been better but it feels like things are getting worse. We see so much more bad stuff than previous generations because of our access to a limitless amount of information. Don’t get me wrong — we have a lot of problems...

Today, we are pulling another of our favorite episodes from the podcast archive. This one is a chat with prominent Boglehead-published author Rick Van Ness. Rick has made a career of teaching financial literacy to the world. We review his 10 principles for...

By Josh Katzowitz, WCI Content Director A few months ago, Redfin, the national real estate company, ran a housing market report with a blaring headline: “Buying a Home Costs More Than Ever.” Maybe that’s true; maybe it isn’t. People, after all, have been buying...

The bull market of the 1980s and 1990s is the stuff dreams are made of.1 The S&P 500 was up nearly 18% per year over the course of those two decades.2 It’s one of the great bull markets in history. But if we want to get...