Two months ago, it looked like we were clearly headed to 2% inflation. November inflation, using the measure favored by the Federal Reserve was the lowest in four years. The inflation rate for January was issued yesterday and confirmed a reading earlier in the month.

I calculate that you gain at least 20% on the money you invest in retirement accounts relative to the same investment in a taxable investment account. I used a 25-year holding-period for your investment: if you are in the Save and Invest phase of life,

I subscribe to a stock market newsletter. This month it had an article with the same title as this post, Does it make sense to convert your IRA to Roth in Retirement? I found the article confusing and incorrect. The decision on Roth conversion is

Every January track what happened to the $2,000 I contributed to my IRA many years ago. I imagine that I put my $2,000 contribution in a gift envelope and bought shares of a stock index fund. It sat there untouched for 35 years, accumulating shares

Two weeks ago I reported on inflation for December for the set of indexes that come out early in the month. This post reports on the important measure that the Federal Reserve uses for its decisions on interest rates. That measure was reported this morning.