Fottrell presented a variety of approaches to setting up a spendthrift trust not only to make sure your heirs don't run out of money, but to address their specific needs and problems, and even to ...

President Trump has said he wants to shut down the U.S. Education Department completely, and half of the department's workers have already been laid off. But it turns out that most of what the ...

I live alone and I am getting on agewise. My daughter harasses me and wants to know where I go. She regularly tries to intervene in what I am doing, where I am going, and insists on knowing with whom ...

I'm considering marriage in the mid-60s. Even with a prenup and separate finances, I'm concerned about the possibility of a long-term illness and the potential for medical debt to be required to be ...

'I feel like I'm behind on retirement. I spent way too many years financially supporting a toxic parent.' ...

It's seen in our commitment to bringing your whole selves to work and being adaptive and flexible about how and where we work. Individual flexibility and the ability to make choices that support ...

By Quentin Fottrell 'Both my parents lived to 98' Dear Quentin, I'm within a couple of months of an early retirement at 63. I watched the market tanking last month. I should turn ...

The nation's political battleground shifted to the stock market this week, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged people to buy shares of Tesla Inc. and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz mocked the electric ...

Notice that the STS closely matches the market over more than four decades, slightly outperforming over some five-year periods and slightly lagging in others. In the most recent five-year period, for ...

We're debating over whether to put all of that cash into the S&P 500 or buy individual stocks. We have chosen two stocks that have done well over the past five years: Chevron, with a 22% annual return ...

But these "Trump times" are providing tough times so far for MAGA investors.

Washington is not immune from the ravages of inflation, either. Soaring annual deficits and a $36 trillion national debt mean the federal government has to shell out record sums in interest payments ...