How Families Can Survive With Just One Income

How close are you to the top 1%?

Find out how close you are to the top 1% with our income ranking calculator.

How Your Checking Account Affects Your Mood

How to use time to potentially double your retirement income in five years

Most people facing retirement would leap at the chance to double their income during the "golden years." If you'd like to do that, I'll show you how. And if you are wondering what the answer is, look at your calendar. We’re talking about time.

How Super Savers Take Retirement to the Next Level

13% of people are saving 20% or more of their income for retirement.

What You Can Learn from Wealthy Investors

High-net-worth individuals may have more money to work with, but you can make the same money-smart moves, no matter your income.

How to prepare for receiving a reduced income

Experts say preparing for the worst is key. Educate yourself on financial basics.

How to Boost Your Retirement Income

The 'Friends Talk Money' podcast hosts offer ideas for investing and saving

Retirement income calculators: What to know about their projections

Be careful when using retirement income calculators: These income projection tools, which are becoming default features on recordkeeping and retail advisory platforms, generate wildly varying interpretations, say analysts at Corporate Insight.

How much income will your 401(k) provide?

Helping to answer the looming retirement question: ‘Will I have enough?’

What to Do with Your Side Hustle Income

A side hustle (or side gig or freelance job) can help people achieve financial goals. But what should you do once you start earning side hustle income?

How Entrepreneurs Can Offset Income Volatility

8 suggestions from Doug Freeman, author of 'Workarounds'

How To Become Wealthy On A High Income

It should be relatively easy for a high income professional to build wealth, but it isn't automatic. These five rules of thumb will help any physician, dentist or attorney rapidly turn their high income into wealth.

Making the Switch: How to Go from Growth to Income

Most of us are familiar with working and saving, but what happens at retirement and it’s time to transition to spending our hard-earned funds?

What is Fixed Income and How Does it Affect the Economy?

Fixed income implies an investment wherein the payments are made on a fixed schedule and of a fixed amount, either…

What Is Fixed Income? How to Use It for Investing

Most people think about fixed income in terms of retirement. It's an investment strategy too, and one you should know about.

How Variable Annuity Income Falls Short

Powell: Guaranteed income for life is tempting, but it could come at a steep cost that's not readily apparent to retirees<br>By<br>Retirement columnist<br>On paper, it's tempting: Invest in a variable annuity and you get a guaranteed income stream for life. But variable annuities that guarantee certain benefits might come at a steep cost that's not readily apparent to retirees, according to new research. The…

How Reverse Mortgages Backfire in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Why foreclosure rates there have been high and could rise again

9 Practical Tips for Going to One Income

Living on one income is easy and only made hard by today's societal pressures and poor financial education. Get my tips for a one-income family.

How to Generate Alternative Income

One of the things that we strongly encourage people to do is look for ways to produce alternative income. There are many ways that you can generate extra income so that you are not counting solely ...

How Much Of My Monthly Income Should I Spend On A Mortgage?

Don't rely on a lender to tell you how much of your monthly income you can comfortably spend on your home. They may let you borrow the maximum possible amount, but that doesn't mean you should — or must — take them up on the offer. Crunch your own numbers first before you start searching