Dear Quentin, My husband, 51, and I, 48, are wracked with guilt over our lack of saving for our children’s college educations. Our kids are aged 14 and 16. We have never been extravagant spenders, always spending frugally (used car, eating in, careful budgeting, delaying buying a house). However,... Source
Dear Quentin, I’m a 76-year-old retired United States Air Force Officer. I have no dependents. I am considering selling my house and, if I do so, I will net approximately $350,000. I have no no bills, and a credit score of around 830. Between my retirement, disability and Social Security…
People are cutting back on their spending and putting money aside for a rainy day. That’s according to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce released Friday. The personal savings rate — personal savings as a percentage of disposable personal income — rose to 5.1% in March, up from 4.8%…
Dear Quentin, I’m going through a lot, and right now I’m at a crucial point where I need to make the right decision — because if I don’t, I will be financially destroyed. My problem is twofold. The first part: About three years ago, I married a person who was…
Dear MarketWatch, My spouse and I are looking to buy a house. We are the only ones in our family who don’t own a house yet, and our parents have offered to “sell” us their house as they move away, as long as we work it out with our siblings. …
That’s Senator Elizabeth Warren in a U.S. Senate hearing Thursday with the three biggest credit reporting bureaus this week. Senators urged credit reporting bureaus to take the medical debt off consumer credit reports completely Thursday in a hearing by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Thursday. It’s the…
A: There is some uncertainty around inherited IRAs due to proposed rules that came out in 2022. Fortunately, with inherited Roth IRAs, there is less controversy. But we are talking about the IRS so when they chime in on whether they will make the current proposal permanent or propose additional…
The marketing controversies tied to Dylan Mulvaney continue. The actress, social-media personality and transgender activist, who celebrated her transition with a “365 days of being a girl” campaign, partnered with Bud Light on a promotion earlier this year. The end result was that the beer brand faced significant transphobic backlash,…
In my book, there are only a few things in the world of fast food with that special something. McDonald’s MCD fries. Dairy Queen’s Blizzards. Subway’s tuna salad. But perhaps above them all is that concoction known as Wendy’s chili — leftover hamburger meat in a soupy sauce that equates…
The can SunnyD Vodka Seltzer, $9.99 for a four-packThe back story Maybe the hard-seltzer boom hasn’t quite gone bust. While many have noted that the category has stumbled a bit since it achieved a cult status a few years ago — remember the “White Claw summer” of 2019? — the…