How American Student Loans Morphed from a Hand-Up to Hopelessness
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Read More >>>Monday Market Update 9-27-2021
The market eked out a gain last week, in spite of the default threat of Evergrande, the FOMC announcement on asset tapering to begin “soon,” potentially weakening housing market data, and all the uncertainty around the nation’s debt ceiling. Catch all the details below for this week’s Monday market update or listen on this week’s…
Read More >>>10 Different Ways 2020 Hurt the Average Family Budget
One of the most popular posts here on Family Finance Mom is the example of a family budget, based on the 2018 Consumer Expenditure data released annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This month, the BLS released the data for 2020, giving us a detailed look at just how 2020 – with the pandemic,…
Read More >>>Monday Market Update 9-20-2021
The market continued to falter last week in the face of a series of rising concerns: slowing economic recovery, persistent inflation, Delta variant and now, potential wider-spread financial concerns from the meltdown of a major Chinese commercial real estate developer. Catch all the details below or listen on this week’s episode of Finance Explained. Last…
Read More >>>The Economic Recovery: 5 Data Points to Watch This Fall
This summer, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession officially ended in April 2020. The global pandemic and resulting US lockdowns caused a massive, but short-lived, economic contraction lasting just two months… however, by many measures, our economy has yet to fully recover. Where are we currently in the economic recovery? Read on…
Read More >>>3 Reasons You Need an LLC to Protect Your Family
This is a Sponsored campaign with . All opinions are my own. One of the most surprising and positive economic data points to emerge in recent years is the number of small businesses. There were 31.7 million small businesses in the United States in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Maybe you are one…
Read More >>>Monday Market Update 5-24-2021
The market was a bit mixed last week. Inflation and rising interest rates continued to pressure the market early in the week, while improving jobless claims numbers led to some market recovery on Thursday. We also got the Fed’s minutes from their April meeting, some insights into negotiations on the American Jobs Plan, aka Biden’s…
Read More >>>How To Get Personal Finance Classes in Every High School
There are two things I hear consistently from Family Finance Moms on a daily basis: I wish I had learned this when I was in school. How do I make sure my kids learn what I didn’t about finance? The way to address both of these is simple. Personal finance classes in every high school…
Read More >>>This Week in the Market 5-17-2021
Earnings season just about wrapped up last week… but the biggest market impact of the week came from the CPI report. Despite everyone predicting it was coming, now that we actually see inflation in the reported data, the market didn’t like it too much. We also saw flat retail sales number for April too. To…
Read More >>>What’s Up with the Labor Market?
The April Employment Situation released on Friday left a lot of people scratching their heads. From businesses who are struggling to hire despite millions on unemployment to economists who expected 4x as many jobs to be added by employers, how can all be true at the same time? Many business leaders were quick to call…
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