How to tap your retirement savings without getting hit with a stiff tax penalty — but only if you absolutely have to

You are allowed to take a series of equal payments from your IRA or your 401(k) without being subject to […]

Social Security calculators aim to take the complexity out of deciding when to claim

In school, you were taught that 1+1=2, and that that worked out no matter what kind of calculator you used. […]

The Air Quality-Life Index™

How much longer would you live if your country reduced air pollution to comply with your own national standard or […]

Do You Know When is the Best Time to Claim Your Social Security?

By Steve Garfink, International Living, Everyone knows a little about Social Security. Yet what’s surprising is just how little we […]

5 Major Countries With The Worst Health Care

Which major countries are the worst at health care? And how does the U.S. stack up? In 2000, the World […]

29 charts that explain Americans’ financial lives

by Danielle Kurtzleben I like to think lots of things make us unique: where we’re from, how we were raised, our […]

The 10 Most Livable Countries

By Alexander E.M. Hess and Thomas C. Frohlich Based on the most recent release of the Human Development Index by the United Nations Development Programme, 24/7 Wall […]

The 13 Biggest Money Mistakes Retirees Make

On the surface, retiring seems to be about transitioning from the working grind to days of all leisure and no […]

Ten Countries Where People Live Longest

Life expectancy in the U.S. has risen in the past few decades. While in 1970 life expectancy at birth was […]

100 Years of Change [Infographic]

As a nation that’s ever changing, it’s sometimes easy to overlook some of the changes that happen within our nation […]