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These smart budget tips will keep you in the money — and out of the doghouse
The best things in life aren’t things.
What home buyers are willing to give up to live in a good school district
‘For many buyers, location, location, location, means schools, schools, schools.’
Are you as clueless as the rest of America when it comes to your retirement?
Americans are woefully unprepared for retirement. The evidence is everywhere, and it’s pretty scary, considering we are living longer than ever. It starts with education, and this quiz proves there’s a long way to go on that front.
Mega Millions jackpot tops half a billion dollars, so what time is the drawing?
There hasn’t been a Mega Millions jackpot winner since May.
5 ways lack of sleep could alter the course of your life
A host of new studies point out the dangers that lie in sleepless nights.
Will we ever know if money and relationships make people happy?
There is no foolproof way of assessing what constitutes a happy and fulfilled life.
This 18-year-old’s hacking side hustle has earned him $100,000 — and it’s legal
More companies are offering ‘bug bounties’ for enterprising hackers.
This is one of the best ways to give your kids a head start in life
How I saved my kids from student loan debt using 529 plans.
College grads: here’s the money advice your family didn’t give you
You need to have a smart relationship with money. So here’s some advice you may not get elsewhere.
How a Geek Squad worker found his calling as a day trader
This is a day in the life of Henry Gambell, the 31-year-old VP and lead content provider at Simpler Trading.
Elsewhere on MarketWatch
Besides tariffs, here’s what else Trump calls ‘the greatest’
To the dismay of classical economists everywhere, President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared that tariffs are “the greatest.”
Trade-war tracker: Here are the new levies, imposed and threatened
As rhetoric on global trade ratchets higher, here’s a look at what new tariffs have been imposed and what has been threatened.
The West is the best: These are the fastest growing states
The economy may have hit a soft patch in the first three months of 2018, but Washington and a handful of other far Western states skidded around the obstacles to growth.
Senator slams muni bond regulator as ‘incestuous’
Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican of Louisiana, on Tuesday slammed the self-regulatory body that oversees the $3.8 trillion muni-market as “an incestuous...little club” that needs to be overhauled.
Republican senator says Trump trade focus should be on China, not allies
Warning of the “harm and damage being done right now” to U.S. businesses by escalating trade disputes, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson urged the Trump Administration to stay focussed on China, rather than America’s allies.
Paul Ryan labels either Trump or Bob Corker a troll in security-clearance flap
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, in his weekly press conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill, laughed off President Donald Trump’s threat to revoke security clearances of former national-security officials.
How the Trump-Juncker meeting could lead to a trade-war truce
The European Union could offer to unilaterally eliminate tariffs on auto imports, which means a lot to Trump but isn’t a big deal to the EU.
Trump to offer emergency aid to farmers hurt by trade disputes
The Trump administration on Tuesday will announce a plan to extend some $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers amid growing concerns that the U.S. agricultural sector could suffer from President Donald Trump’s escalating trade disputes with allies, a person familiar with the matter said.
With the $1 trillion barrier in sight, this surprising tech stock is the best buy
With the tech giants about to breach the $1 trillion market cap barrier, Tim Mullaney looks at which tech companies are worth buying.
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Alessandra Malito is a personal finance reporter based in New York. You can follow her on Twitter @malito_ali.
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