I spend many hours per week combing through websites, blogs, magazines, and books on personal finance to try and stay on top of my game and keep up with …

A few years ago, during the huge Equifax hack, I proactively placed a credit freeze with the credit bureaus. When doing so, I couldn’t help but notice that there’s …

Update: a variation of what is detailed below was passed into law and was extended in 2025 through the OBBBA legislation. I’m very interested to see how the new …

In light of new massive data hacks coming out seemingly every week, I wanted to dive a little bit deeper in to one specific proactive measure that readers can …

Update#1 : the Equifax Class Action settlement details have finally been released and you have until January of 2020 to sign-up! Update #2: there was an Equifax claim email …

As I was thinking about all of the blood, sweat, and tears that went in to the United States labor movement that raised the bar for all workers and …

I run a personal finance blog. And I do not have kids. When people find out these two facts about me, many of them jump to the conclusion that …

A few weeks ago, it was tough to avoid stories in the news media that glorified Jeff Bezos’s ascent to the richest person on earth. And then, just a …

Costco has long been known for selling bulk quantities of high quality foods and other consumables at discount prices. And those discounts are even sweeter when they are packaged …