Self-Employed Couples

Running a business together and staying married: roles, money, decisions and leaving work at the door.

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How to Catch Up on Retirement When You Start at Fifty

Seventeen working years is a long runway. The math is less forgiving than it was at thirty, but it still works if you stop apologizing and start moving.

GuideReal EstateRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

The Home Inspection Is Your Last Cheap Exit

What a good inspector actually catches, what's outside his job entirely, and the point where walking away is the smart move.

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GuideTradesAde Fisher23 Sept 20266 min

From the Tools to Foreman to Owner Without Going Broke

The skills that make you the best hand on the crew aren't the skills that run one. What actually changes at each jump, and what it costs you.

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Retirement6 min read

How to decide whether your next dollar goes Roth or traditional

One question settles most of it, and almost everybody gets the math backwards the first time they try.

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GuideReal EstateRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

The twelve steps from preapproval to keys on your first house

What actually happens between the day you talk to a lender and the day you change the locks, in the order it happens.

GuideTradesNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Breaking Into the Trades When You're the Only Woman on the Crew

Harness fit, apprenticeship math, the tools that suit a smaller frame, and how respect actually gets earned on a jobsite.

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GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

Your 401(k) match is a raise you have to go claim

The money's sitting in your benefits portal behind a formula nobody reads, and the default settings are tuned low enough that you'll walk right past it.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideReal EstateRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

The Bank Will Approve You For Too Much House

A preapproval letter is a sales document, not a budget. Work out your own ceiling before an agent ever asks what you're comfortable with.

GuideTradesAde Fisher23 Sept 20266 min

Apprentice to Master Electrician and What Each Step Pays

Four to five years of paid work, 8,000 hours on the books, and a code exam that eats people who wing it. The real path, the money, the trade-offs.

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GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

401k, traditional IRA and Roth IRA explained without jargon

Three accounts, one paycheck, and a tax bill you get to choose the timing of. What each one actually does, and the order most people should fill them.

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StoryNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20266 min

The Census Sets Your District for the Next Ten Years

New York lost a House seat in 2021 by 89 people. That's how thin the margin is between a headcount and political power.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideTradesAde Fisher23 Sept 20266 min

How to Get an A and P Certificate and Make a Living With It

The FAA license that never expires, the two routes to earning it, what the job actually pays, and the parts of the work nobody warns you about.

GuideRetirementRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20266 min

How Much You Actually Need to Retire, in Real Numbers

Forget the million-dollar headline figure. The number you need comes out of your own checking account, and you can work it out this weekend.

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GuideNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20265 min

Read the Jobs Report Before Anyone Tells You What It Means

The tables, the technical note and the revision schedule go public at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, free. Ten minutes gets you ahead of the commentary.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Trades6 min

How to Save Your Knees, Back and Hearing on the Job

Crypto5 min

The people who promise to get your stolen crypto back

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StoryNewsJosh Halloran23 Sept 20266 min

What a Poll Worker Actually Does From 5 a.m. to Midnight

The pay is modest, the day is long, and the sign-up window closes earlier than you think. Everything else about the job is simpler than people assume.