Rudolph’s nose is glowing, Santa’s sleigh is packed — and the Tax Foundation is once again calling out New York state’s high taxes. The foundation recently released its yearly Business Tax Climate...

For the last several years, the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates low. In 2022, the Federal Reserve indicated that it may raise interest rates up to three times to combat inflation....

At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting recently, chief Warren Buffett pointed out that none of the top 20 companies by market cap in 1989 were in the top 20 league today. Even in...

A credit limit, also known as a credit access line or credit line, is the maximum amount of dollars you can spend on your credit card before having to pay off some...

Long, long ago, in a mystical forest with good Wi-Fi, Goldilocks opened an investing account with $3,000 to invest.At first, she considered pouring more money into her retirement accounts (which only holds...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!When I started Financial Samurai in 2009, my main goal was to make sense of the Global Financial Crisis. That was a scary time period that created massive...

The less you spend, the more you save.It sounds simple in theory, but in practice, it’s much more complicated.Spending is built into our daily habits, from our morning trip to the coffee...

A legislative committee has resurrected a many-times-failed real estate transfer tax, a levy that proponents say could help turn the corner on a workforce housing crisis that’s fraying the community fabric of...

The good news is that student loan relief will continue for an additional 90 days beyond January 31, 2022, when it was scheduled to expire. This is the same student loan relief...