TheLiveBigWay® Digest

Thanksgiving Dinner and Financial Planning in One Sitting The Thanksgiving holiday is right around the corner, and you likely have a lengthy to-do list: menu planning, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, et. al. But before you get swept up in the holiday hubbub, we thought we’d...
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Five Financial Fears to Face This Halloween Our ancestors were once afraid of predators and “things that go bump in the night.” Today, while those fears have mostly been relegated to books and movies, they have been supplanted by other, real threats to our wellbeing,...
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Inflation – Still Not Spooked (Seriously) It’s the story that won’t go away, so we’re not going to stop commenting on it. That’s right – inflation is dominating the headlines again. And we’re still not worried about it. Today we dig into the underlying causes...
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Can Your Emergency Fund Withstand… An Emergency? It feels as though we experience a “once-in-a-century” event that leads us to a “new normal” every decade. And those in the media love to proclaim, every time, that “this time is different.” Now, we’re hearing it again:...
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How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke – A Policy-Based Response A couple weeks ago, the New York Times’ Peter Coy explored what he described as the tricky “problem of decumulation” that retirees must solve and naturally, we couldn’t help but craft our own answers...
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Familiarity Bias: Are You Your Greatest Enemy? Benjamin Graham, widely known as the "father of value investing," once wrote, “The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.” All humans carry with them biases shaped by their backgrounds...
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August Tips and To-Dos While August and the summer months have seemingly flown by, there’s still plenty of time left to take advantage of slower summer days and knock off a few of your financial to-dos. Here are a few timely topics you might want...
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Post-Pandemic Personal Finance Trends If you’ve seen your spending and saving habits change during the pandemic, you’re not alone. As we enter what we hope will be a post-pandemic era, researchers have been curious to learn more about our individual and collective pandemic experiences, and...
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Risky Business: When Bonds Act Like Stocks While municipal bonds offer tax-breaks (and sometimes relatively higher yields) that can make them seem like attractive investments, their behavior can be more akin to that of stocks. Read on to learn more about why we steer clear...
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