Now let’s imagine that you start finding unexplained fees in your statements -- $13 one month, $2.50 the next month. Worse yet, you experience what many Wells Fargo customers came up against. You start getting collections calls for fees on accounts in your name, at your bank, but not the account you recall opening.

I’m not thinking this post will make me popular, but honestly, we would be a much happier population next April if we each spent an hour or less reviewing the tax situation now, in July.

As you all know, I am a big proponent of focusing your efforts on the things can control.

China’s largest e-retailer, Taobao, now offers these investments alongside grocery and household items on the shopping page.

Last month, Norwegians reinforced their reputation as economic innovators with a voluntary income tax – you pay based on what you think you should pay.

For quite a few Americans, the answer is old age.

An investor reading the news this morning was likely dismayed to find reports like this from Reuters: “Wall Street fell sharply on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrials suffering their worst daily percentage drops in about six weeks.”

If you were given a day off work to sit down with all of those financial questions and to-do lists you’ve been putting off, would you take it? This week’s New York Times Money section features a bank that offers its employees a day off to take care of their “financial wellness.”

According to the latest survey, about 31% of Americans say they have at least six months’ worth of expenses saved up. It’s not as many of you as we’d like, but it is a significant improvement on the 22% who answered the same way in 2015.

I am fairly certain there are new job positions open in Washington D.C. for legislation-namers.

Financial planning isn't really about the projections...

You might not have noticed the seismic shift in your world last week, but something big happened that could make the last 40 years or so of your life a lot less stressful. After years of battling, arguing, and dithering, a new law went into effect that prohibits your financial advisor from trying to sell you on all sorts of expensive nonsense in your retirement account.