Personal Finance

When one mother turned to Reddit to ask how to explain budget cuts to her children, she touched a nerve. Her post, shared in r/budget, quickly drew support from parents who had been there and knew the emotional balancing act of telling kids, “We can’t afford that right now,”...

"The 10X Rule" author Grant Cardone has helped many people start successful businesses and build wealth with real estate. He's started several companies, but he wasn't born into wealth. Although he hasn’t been shy about showing off his wealth for several years, he is a rags-to-riches story,...

A recent episode of “The Ramsey Show” took a sharp turn when a caller shared how his mother took out credit cards in his name after he and his brother bought her a home. Mom Living In A Home Her Sons Bought, Son Holding The Bag The caller, 27, explained that after his divorce, he was...

"I Will Teach You To Be Rich" author Ramit Sethi recently shared how you can get ahead of 95% of people in three months. He claims that you don't have to haggle over small expenses or cancel everything fun in your life. He even throws in another caveat that makes it feel more accessible. "You don't...

Some dads throw footballs. Some grill burgers. Warren Buffett? He read the paper—a lot. But according to his daughter, Susie Buffett, that didn't make him any less of a father. "I always had a very strong sense of how much it mattered to him to be… in the house and there," she said in a 2015...

It's one thing to cut back on Starbucks. It's another thing entirely when your grocery budget vanishes and you're surviving by skipping meals — not for weight loss, but to make rent. That's the reality one Reddit user summed up with brutal clarity in a post that's now making the rounds after...

It's okay to make financial mistakes as long as you learn from them and don't fall back into bad money habits. Financial influencer Vincent Chan recently shared the top financial mistake he made in his 20s, and it might be one that you've been making, too. While people understand the value of...

Real estate investor Grant Cardone used to be in the middle class, but setting ambitious goals helped him become wealthy and accumulate many assets. The high-profile entrepreneur knows what it means to live paycheck to paycheck and doesn't endorse the lifestyle. This past experience is part of the...

A man called into “The Ramsey Show” with a confession: he’s been married for five years, and his wife has no idea that they’re secretly worth millions of dollars. “I'm the saver and she's the spender,” the caller explained. “I have been working very hard,...

In a recent episode of “The Ramsey Show,” a couple in their 70s shared how they went from being completely debt-free to falling back into financial chaos. After completing Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University in 2016, they had paid off all their debt by 2017 and even bought...

Before he became a billionaire, starred on "Shark Tank," sold the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, or trolled Elon Musk on social media, Mark Cuban had a much simpler dream: save up enough to retire by 35—not because he wanted to coast, but because he wanted to live. In a 2020 episode of the "Venture Voice...

Dividend investing is gaining traction in 2025 as tariffs and macroeconomic uncertainties continue to weigh on market sentiment. Research from S&P Global shows that dividend stocks with a strong history of growth have historically delivered higher returns with lower volatility compared to the S...

The U.S. Education Department has halted plans to seize Social Security checks from the roughly 452,000 older Americans who have fallen behind on federal student loans, a policy reversal that offers immediate relief to retirees living on fixed incomes. What Happened: The about-face comes less than...

It's fun to dream about winning the lottery — even if you know deep down your odds are roughly the same as getting struck by lightning while being attacked by a shark on your birthday.  But just in case you do hit the jackpot, billionaire Mark Cuban has some blunt advice that tends to...