Mark Lund

The most significant thing you can do to take control of your finances is keep a budget. No matter your income level or stage of life, it will help enable you to do the most with your money and give you greater peace of mind. An ongoing budget not only gives you a current picture

A lot of Americans would like to quit their jobs for good. For anecdotal proof, just look at the booming sales in lottery tickets. But many people aren’t waiting to strike it rich to leave the workforce before the traditional retirement age. According to Barron’s, baby boomers (the 70-million-strong cohort born between 1946 and 1964),

You’re driving down the interstate. Traffic is heavy and you’re running late. You get in the left lane, which is supposed to move faster. But for some reason it comes to a stop. So you dodge over to the right lane, which also stops. Now the left lane is moving again. So you signal to

With door-to-door Christmas caroling having gone the way of the horse and buggy, Halloween is our last national holiday where we get to meet a lot of our neighbors. Of course, the next day you might not recognize the children when they’re not dressed like little princesses, monsters, or superheroes. But their parents should look

Back in 2012 the U.K. based Observer newspaper decided to test the performance of their panel of professional stock-pickers. In a three-way contest they pitted the trio of investment professionals against a team of finance students and a house cat named Orlando.1 According to the story, at the start of the year each team was

If the stock market were a person, you would not want to be around them very much. Imagine a friend who reacts unpredictably to every major piece of economic news, often several times a day. One minute they’re on top of the world. The next minute they’re sitting in a dark corner with their head

Drivers’ education has to be, hands down, the most boring class in high school. In home economics (if they still have it) you get to experiment with fun desserts. Wood shop lets you use dangerous tools. Even keyboarding class (formerly known as Typing) uses games to teach speed and accuracy. But not drivers’ ed. It’s