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If you took out federal student loans to attend college, then you may be paying off loans with a reasonably affordable interest rate. But private loans are a different story.

You may be stuck with a

Investing in proven businesses that provide the world with essential goods or services can be a winning investing formula. This is because critical products and services often bring pricing power

When a stock crashes by more than 90% from its all-time high, investors would be right to question whether there is a structural problem with its underlying business. In most cases there is, but

Most income investors look for a dividend stock that, first and foremost, pays a high yield. But there are other factors income investors will want to consider as well.

Steady earnings and lots of

The stock market continues to perform well this year despite fears of a coming recession. While this could be the early innings of a new bull market, especially following last year's downturn

It is relatively rare to find a growth stock priced below $50 per share. Following a 13% rally this year for the wider market, only about 25% of the stocks in the S&P 500 fall under that threshold

A Roth IRA is perhaps the most powerful retirement account you can get your money into. The combination of tax-free growth throughout your life, the ability to accept rollovers from other retirement

On May 23, Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) announced a long-awaited rebranding, introducing new membership tiers and presenting itself as not just an in-home exercise bike business, but a

Let's go ahead and address the elephant in the room up front: By highlighting stocks I'll "never" sell, I obviously don't mean ever under any circumstances. Changes to my personal financial

Shares of health insurance benefits managers dropped last Wednesday after the largest member of their industry, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), issued a minor warning. Speaking at an investor

Seniors on Social Security saw their benefits rise by 8.7% at the start of 2023. That raise was the largest cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, to arrive in decades. And it's hopefully helped some

The electric vehicle (EV) industry is changing quickly. Just a few years ago, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) was essentially the only major player in the U.S. and rode that first-mover advantage to generate

529 plans are a tax-advantaged way to save for higher education, but the penalty for making non-qualified withdrawals can be a huge headache for those who don't use all the money they've accumulated

Dividend stocks are an excellent source of passive income. These stocks also produce solid returns with less volatility than others. According to a study by Hartford Funds, companies that have

At one point, Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) was one of the best stocks to own, as it skyrocketed almost 6,500% from May 2015 to its all-time high in November 2021. But as the Federal Reserve rapidly hiked

I like what-if exercises. They require both reasoning and imagination. And even if the scenarios never actually happen, thinking about them can nonetheless help in the real world.

One example that

Warren Buffett isn't what you'd call a tech guru. The legendary investor has been notoriously slow in the past to invest in companies with major technological advances. He readily admits that tech

If you're looking to supercharge your retirement savings, there's one account that stands out above the rest if you ask me: the health savings account.

The health savings account, or HSA, isn't

Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB) recently got some good news in the U.S. An advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously confirmed the clinical benefit of its Alzheimer's drug

It's amazing what a difference a year -- or even a few months -- can make on Wall Street. In 2021, the mature-business-packed Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), broad-based S&P 500

When most people think of Social Security, they think of the retirement benefits that seniors receive after putting in a few decades in the workforce. But the program also provides checks to other

When it comes to the world's greatest investors, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett is, arguably, in a class of his own. Since taking over the CEO role in 1965, the