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Making extra cash can seem complicated, especially if you’re employed. However, it doesn’t have to be. Financial experts encourage you to invest even when you aren’t making a lot of money. Although the idea of investing might be intimidating, you don’t need much to make your first investment. Considering whether …

This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet.  Many U.S. households retire without enough money to maintain their pre-retirement standard of living. Once retired, though, people often reduce their spending enough to make their money last, according to a recent study by David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar, …

You no longer must buy another home in order to claim the capital-gains exemption. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said you had to. Dear Ms. MoneyPeace: My first wife died in 2013 and I remarried in 2014. My will gives my wife my house. I have owned four …

Dear Quentin, I was with my significant other for almost 7 years. While he was separated from his wife, they never divorced. It was due to financial reasons. Because of his difficult relationship with his wife I was made his health-care surrogate. Last September, he underwent cancer surgery, and realized …

Dear Quentin, How can one best give sizable cash gifts to family and friends without being seen as “flaunting wealth”? We have some family and friends who are struggling to make ends meet, particularly as a result of the pandemic. Having means, we chose to help them financially and sent …

Dear Quentin, I don’t know where to start. So I will start at the beginning. I met a man at a friend’s wedding a few years ago. He was charming in that British-man-in-America sort of way (Hugh Grant has a lot to answer for), he told jokes (perhaps too many …

The Big Number: U.S. households parked a record $ 2.67 trillion in the bank and in money-market funds during 2020, according to the financial accounts of the U.S., released on Thursday by the Federal Reserve. What happened: The COVID-19 pandemic hit the economy hard, but the pain wasn’t felt by …

Dear Quentin, Over the past three years, my wife has spent over $ 50,000 on cosmetic procedures. She never used to be a vain person. It started with a face lift after she turned 40, and now she can’t stop blowing money on everything from Botox and lip fillers to …

Annuities are neither good nor bad. But you wouldn’t know that given how most people, including financial planners, react when the product is discussed as a potential part of a retirement plan. Such products, critics say, are nothing but a way for salespersons, some of whom have engaged in unethical …