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Your Financial Future: Using credit wisely

An important part of everyoneĢƵ financial health is their credit score. Your credit score reflects your credit history. It is calculated from information contained in your credit report.There are three main credit bureaus that collect payment histories from your creditors. Your reports ...

The new economy is here whether we like it or not. The news has been full of stories of people who have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay their mortgage or rent.For some people, that is not much different than before COVID-19 hit. Others were keeping their heads above water or doing ...

On July 29, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said, “The path of the economy is going to depend to a very high extent on the course of the virus, on the measures that we take to keep it in check. That is just a very fundamental fact about our economy right now.”So far we are seeing ...

COVID-19 is being used by scammers to steal your personal information.These have taken many forms. Some are in the form of phishing e-mails that appear to come from The World Health Organization. They try to extract your information by requiring you to log into a fake alert. WHO has responded ...

Many financial issues have changed as we deal with the Coronavirus. One of them is how we look at estate planning. This is an area that many people are reluctant to discuss. Many do not like to deal with these issues. The death and family isolation of COVID-19 have brought this subject to the ...

This week we will continue talking about the importance of proactive tax planning for 2020.Taxes are currently on sale. It may not seem like that if you just had to send in a big check with your tax return. The TCJA or Trump tax cuts are due to expire on Jan. 1, 2026. At that time, we will ...