Episode 157: Strategies to Lower Your Tax Bill & Avoid an Audit
With inflation driving up prices and straining our budgets, we're all looking for ways to save money. That includes increasing our take home pay by reducing the bite taken out of our paychecks by the ...
22 Jul 202224min
Episode 156: What to Do Should You Lose Your Job
Although unemployment is low these days, there are many that are warning that we are headed into a recession, and that not only will the hot job market cool, but that layoffs may be headed our way. In...
8 Jul 202221min
Episode 155: Is Buy Now Pay Later For You?
At its Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, Apple announced that it would be offering a Buy Now, Pay Later program as a part of its financial services to customers. This alternative for...
24 Jun 202219min
Episode 154: Making a Health Savings Account Part of Your Retirement Plan
Back in Episode 80 I talked about Health Savings Accounts in conjunction with some high deductible health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act. An HSA is a great idea if you have one of the...
10 Jun 202221min
Episode 153: Starting Your Kids on the Path to Retirement
In the past two episodes, I have talked about financial education for our children and instilling them with a basic working knowledge and literacy when it comes to money. I also discussed in Episode 1...
27 Mai 202219min
Episode 152: Development of Financial Personalities with Vince Shorb
In the last episode I talked with Jake Cousineau, a California educator who teaches financial literacy to high school students. But looking into this further I discovered that attitudes about money (c...
13 Mai 202236min
Episode 151: Personal Finance for the Real World with Jake Cousineau
When I was growing up, the boys took shop, and the girls took home ec. The latter, as we would say today, stressed gender roles, and consisted of cooking, sewing, and the like. But real home economics...
22 Apr 202241min
Episode 150: Financial Planning for Widowed or Divorced Women
There are many challenges that face people on the road to financial freedom, including credit card debt, student loans, and a loss of employment or reduction in income. Overcoming them can be a real s...
8 Apr 202240min
