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Why did I just buy my first bond ever, after years of being 100% invested in stocks?

It comes down to a single number: 5.2%. That’s the highest 30-year Treasury yield we’ve seen since 2007, and it’s reshaping the calculus for every other investment out there.

In this month’s First Friday economic update, I break down a jobs report that lost jobs while unemploym...


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Hackers broke into a real estate closing company’s servers and waited three months for the right deal — then intercepted a wire and stole $1.2 million from a couple who did everything right, right down to the closing table.

Dr. Eric Cole was a former CIA hacker, Cybersecurity Commissioner under President Obama, and longtime security advisor to Bill Gates. We’re reshar...


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The stock market is near record highs. Unemployment is low. So why does it feel like young people have never been more pessimistic about money?

Beth Kobliner has been writing about personal finance for over 30 years, and she says today’s 20- and 30-somethings have it harder than any generation she’s covered.

She has the data to prove it.

I sat down with ...


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“Joe, how much did you spend on your wedding?”

That’s how this episode kicks off, and it sets up the theme running through everything else.

Joe and I help a couple figure out if their plan to retire together in 12 years actually holds up, and weigh in on whether a $60,000 wedding is a financially smart move.

We also help someone in Luxembourg decide whet...


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Cody Berman was 19 when he learned about financial independence, and 25 when he reached it.

There’s no trust fund here, no lucky exit. Just a brutal train commute, over 30 side hustles, and a gap between what he earned and what he spent that he refused to let shrink.

I sat down with Cody to unpack the two very different paths to FI, why most people quit scalabl...


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