The astonishingly high risk of a 401(k) loan
401(k) loan interest rates are low. But the way many Americans repay them spells disaster.
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Liz Weston: Are you buying a house or lottery ticket?
The same week legendary investor Warren Buffett put his California vacation house on the market, a friend told me her widowed mother had sold the family home in Cleveland.
Liz Weston: To retire right, plan to do it twice
There's the retirement that looks like the commercials: biking, travel, enjoying the family. And then there's the one where you can't get up the stairs anymore. Most of us happily...
Is it time to stop the never-ending car payment?
One-third of millennial car buyers chose a lease last year. Many don't think they'll need a personal vehicle in a few years (think autonomous Ubers) and see vehicles as pieces...
Retirement advice from retired financial experts
Most retirement advice has a flaw: It's being given by people who haven't yet retired. So I asked money experts who have quit the 9-to-5 for their best advice on...
What happens when Social Security accidentally declares you dead?
If the Social Security Administration thinks you're dead, you might wish you were.
How financial stress is literally killing you
Writer Neal Gabler broke the don't-talk-about-money taboo this spring with an Atlantic article, "The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans." Now he wants everyone to start talking.