Bernd Vogel | Stone | Getty Images Brad Klontz was drawn to financial psychology after the tech bubble burst in the early 2000s. Klontz had tried his hand at stock trading after seeing a friend earn more than $100,000 in one year. But he felt immense shame after the market crashed and his investments evaporated.
Trump supporters take photographs near the U.S. Capitol building as the sun sets the day U.S. President Elect Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2024. Leah Millis | Reuters Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, many individual investors are wondering what that means for
A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Money 101 newsletter with Sharon Epperson, an eight-week series to improve your financial wellness with monthly updates. Sign up to receive these editions, straight to your inbox. Stocks soared in the days after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and the Federal Reserve announced
Baona | E+ | Getty Images Many Americans haven’t saved enough for retirement. However, a big change to 401(k) plans could provide a boost for older workers. The IRS in November unveiled higher 401(k) contribution limits for 2025, with employee deferrals jumping to $23,500, up from $23,000 in 2024. While the catch-up contribution remains unchanged
Mixetto | E+ | Getty Images The share of Americans with credit-card debt in retirement has jumped considerably — a worrisome financial trend, especially for those with little wiggle room in their budgets, experts said. About 68% of retirees had outstanding credit-card debt in 2024, up “substantially” from 40% in 2022 and 43% in 2020,
JGI/Tom Grill | Tetra images | Getty Images At a recent campaign rally, President-elect Donald Trump promised new financial help for family caregivers. “I will support a tax credit for family caregivers who take care of a parent or a loved one,” Trump said during an October speech at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “It’s
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid for 2025-26 will be available for all students and contributors on or before Dec. 1, the Education Department says. Typically, students have access to the coming academic year’s form in October, but this year’s delayed release follows a “phased rollout” meant to address reported issues from the 2024-25
A customer walks by a display of fresh eggs at a grocery store on Sept. 25, 2024 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Progress in the fight to tame pandemic-era inflation appears to have stalled out in October, despite lower prices at the gasoline pump and a moderation in other consumer staples
Chesnot | Getty Images Amid the latest bitcoin rally, crypto investors face a looming deadline that could impact future taxes — and they must take action before Jan. 1, 2025. The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS in July unveiled final tax reporting rules for digital asset brokers, with phased-in guidelines. Starting in 2026, brokers will
Collectively, Americans now owe a record $1.17 trillion on their credit cards, according to a new report on household debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Credit card balances rose by $24 billion in the third quarter of 2024 and are 8.1% higher than a year ago. Despite that increase, credit card delinquency
A student student sits in a lecture hall while class is being dismissed at the University of Texas at Austin on February 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Nearly a third, 30%, of federal student loan borrowers say they’ve gone without food or medicine because of their monthly bills. That grim
Maskot | Getty Images A bipartisan bill to change Social Security benefit rules for pensioners passed in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, with 327 lawmakers voting to support the measure. Now, the proposal heads to the Senate, where the chamber’s version of the bill has 62 co-sponsors, “surpassing the majority needed to pass the
97 | E+ | Getty Images As inflation has throttled back from pandemic-era highs, consumers have seen prices decline outright for many household items. This dynamic, known as deflation, generally doesn’t occur on a broad, sustained scale in the U.S. economy: With limited exceptions, businesses are generally loath to lower prices once they’ve increased, economists
Thomas Jefferson, 1848/1879. Artist George Peter Alexander Healy. Heritage Images | Hulton Fine Art Collection | Getty Images In “All The Presidents’ Money,” author Megan Gorman takes readers into a side of U.S. presidents that is often overlooked: how they managed their own money. Gorman writes about commanders in chief who were obsessively frugal, and
Repealing Head of Household Filing Status: Details and Analysis Skip to content Home • Blog • Repealing Head of Household Filing Status: Details and Analysis As lawmakers prepare for the debate over the expiration of the 2017 TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or
Trump Tariffs: Revenue Estimates | Tax Foundation Skip to content Home • Blog • Revenue Estimates of Trump’s Universal Baseline Tariffs President-elect Donald Trump has proposed to implement a universal baseline tariffTariffs are taxes imposed by one country on goods imported from another country. Tariffs are trade barriers that raise prices, reduce available quantities of
Super-Rich Effective Tax Rates: US Treasury Report Skip to content Home • Blog • The Super-Rich Pay Super-Amounts of Taxes, New Treasury Report Finds A common refrain from many progressive lawmakers is that the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. “Fair share” is, of course, subjective. But a new Treasury study provides data
Premium Cigar Taxes by State, 2024 | Tax Foundation Skip to content Table of Contents Over 500 million premium cigars were sold in the United States in 2023. With each sale comes a complex taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover
Blog July 24, 2024October 30, 2024 Where Does Kamala Harris Stand on Taxes? While both President Biden and Vice President Harris aim their proposed tax hikes on businesses and high earners, key differences between their tax ideas in the past reveal where Harris may take her tax policy platform in the 2024 campaign. 6 min
Spain’s Poorly Designed Tax Policy Hurts Its Competitiveness Skip to content Home • Blog • Spain’s Poorly Designed Tax Policy Hurts Its Competitiveness Spain’s central government could learn some valuable lessons from its regional governments and other European countries about sound taxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national
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