December 30, 20210Comments

Money Sense, Chapter 16: Balance and Patience: How to go from a little to a lot. Take the first steps to financial independence.

Let’s start investing. Let’s start building up assets. Let’s start going down the MoneySense road that leads to financial independence. The MoneySense investor, the person who ultimately achieves a goal,

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

December 25, 20210Comments

New Jersey Money Mess: Garden State taxpayers are on the hook because of bad spending and debt policies, watchdog group charges.

New Jersey has huge, possibly dangerous, levels of debt, a new report says, but most state officials won’t discuss it.The New Jersey taxpayer owes tens of thousands of dollars and

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

December 21, 20210Comments

The Scourge of the Gray Hair: Seemingly secure retirements suddenly aren’t. It’s the cruelest tax. It hurts your mother, father, grandparent or maybe, someday, you.

You began your retirement plan with plenty of money to pay bills. Your plan expectation of a reasonable inflation rate worked for years. But now one of the key assumptions

by Gregory Bresiger

Personal Finance

December 11, 20210Comments

Tis the Season to Go into the Red: But will you still be merry when the bills come due in January?

You find yourself unable to pay more than a small percentage of credit card bills each month. You only make the minimum payment. You never seem to pay off any

by Gregory Bresiger