Do Military Households Have Misconceptions About Retirement? Here’s What They Said in a New Survey From building a solid financial foundation to preparing for emergencies and planning for retirement, the results of a recent...
Military Families Less Likely to Dip into Retirement Savings, Survey Says -- with One Big Exception Those who wear or have worn the military uniform, based on this particular survey, appear less likely to have tapped their...
5 Reasons to Pay Attention During the Military's Financial 'Touchpoint' Training Taking full advantage of financial touchpoint training can be one of the smartest moves service members make to build a...
How to Connect Financial 'Rules of Thumb' to Today's Economic Reality If you hear the so-called "pearls of personal finance wisdom" and think to yourself, "That just doesn't work for me," well...
7 Ways Military Pay and Benefits Provide an Advantage in an Uncertain Economy In an environment of sticky inflation, sky-high housing costs and a whole lot of uncertainty, military life has some solid...
Pieces of a Pie: How to Start Saving for Retirement Right Now Your retirement income will likely come from a variety of sources. Imagining retirement income as pie pieces can make the...
Intimidated by Investing? Do It Systematically One way to ease the fear of investing is to do it systematically. Here's why.
Thrift Savings Plan Has New Withdrawal Rules The rules for withdrawing funds while in-service, as well as after leaving, are becoming less restrictive.
What You Need to Know About the TSP’s New Lifecycle Funds The TSP is making it easier to save for retirement without having to manage your investments.
Trump Administration Balks at Letting TSP Members Invest in China Should politicians tell you how to invest your hard-earned cash?
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...