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Month: September 2020

Try a Covid-safe, fun-with-money approach to Halloween

September 30, 2020 by admin

Many traditions have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic this year, but my hope throughout the summer has been that Halloween might be spared. Since 2016 at my house, instead of “Trick or treat?” the question has been “Cash or Candy?” It’s become a fun, fabulous and favorite personal tradition, where I help neighborhood kids …

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There’s a word to describe 2020, and investors aren’t using it

September 23, 2020 by admin

Just like seemingly everything else in 2020, the market has been a place for extremes. From February 20 through March 23 this year, the stock market – as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 – lost 33 percent of its value. It then gained over 60 percent from that March low to the start …

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Want credit-score ‘insurance’? Just pay down your bill

September 23, 2020 by admin

   (This column was released for publication on Sept. 16, 2020.) Darren in Brusly, La., is worried for his job in the coronavirus pandemic and is hoping to “protect” his credit score “in case anything bad happens” at work. He wrote me asking if there was any way to pay the keepers of credit scores …

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How to reduce the financial stress you’re feeling now

September 9, 2020 by admin

I don’t feel better off right now. I barely know anyone who does. Yet, intuitively, I should feel better. The stock market is way up over the last few months, and it has taken my accounts up with it. Gross domestic product seems to be growing faster than expected, the latest jobs report shows 1.4 …

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Capturing the market’s participation trophy is good enough

September 2, 2020 by admin

The stock market has returned to record levels, powered by a few of the world’s biggest and best-known companies. That has spawned talk of how it’s a “stock-picker’s market.” Poppycock. The market observers who say this drivel aren’t particularly observant, or they would have long ago noticed that good stock-picking never goes out of style. …

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