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  1. Want to Buy a Home in 2024? Here Are 4 Ways to Help Make It Happen
    If you've spent the last few years itching to get on the property ladder, you might be feeling pretty discouraged by persistently higher mortgage rates and a stubbornly low number of houses for sale.
  2. What To Do With Excess Funds In Your Child’s 529 Plan—A Good Problem To Have
    What do you do with "extra" funds in your child's 529 Education Savings Plan after they've finished college, or gone in a different professional direction?
  3. Why Jerome Powell's business-as-usual Jackson Hole speech was the best possible outcome
    Fed Chair Jerome Powell's annual Jackson Hole speech was uneventful, but that's not a bad thing. Powell reiterated the Fed could start tapering its asset purchases this year and rates aren't changing soon. Stocks hit record highs during the speech as investors shrugged off fears of an early pullback in Fed support. See
  4. Will home prices drop if there's a recession?
    Home prices are expected to increase moderately throughout 2025. While a recession could lead to a small decline in prices, a full-blown housing market crash is less likely.
  5. 3 Asset Allocation Rules You Should Know by Heart
    The assets you accumulate in your lifetime can be used to benefit you in the near term as well as retirement, and knowing how to manage those assets will increase the likelihood of them serving you well. With that in mind, here are a few rules to stick to if your goal is to grow wealth successfully. 1. Don't invest mon
  6. 3 reasons the labor shortage could be a 'structural change' in the economy, according to S&P
    The record number of people leaving the workforce signals structural changes in the economy, Standard & Poor's reported last month.  The
  7. 3 Ways to Build Wealth Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
    The coronavirus has taken a significant toll on the U. S. economy as well as many Americans' personal finances. With more than 10 million U. S adults filing for unemployment over just the past two weeks, many people are struggling just to pay the bills each month. If you're one of the fortunate ones who still has a sou
  8. 4 reasons why millennials need life insurance
    - If you’re a millennial, the chances you’ve already invested in a private life insurance policy are probably pretty low. The share of Americans
  9. 5 labor trends HR can expect in 2024
    Good morning! Indeed’s Hiring Lab released its 2024 jobs and hiring trends report this morning, examining changes in job postings, labor
  10. 6 Financial Tips For Surviving COVID-19
    As of April 23, 2020, NBC News reports 26 million Americans have already lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Despite this economic crisis, Dr. Anthony Fauci stressed that it is far too early to let up on social distancing. For many Americans, this means a broken budget. To prevent this short-term crisis from turning i