Edit: this post may be revised from time to time, but was originally posted December 2023 ( Read more... )

N.Y.C. so costly you need to earn six figures to make middle classBY Elizabeth Hays ( Read more... )

I guess I bid a little too optimistically, worried that I'd have credit just sitting in my account instead of on a stock that would be going up. Silly me.

Well... I hit an internal limit on how much I would initially invest, not sure I should go over that at this point.

eh, so much for that. I joined the plan back in July 2007, you give them a percentage and based on your salary base at that point in time they calculate how much you'll be investing. You get a discount on the price of the stock, it costs you 85% of the market price. You have to continue the deductions from your paycheck for the entire year, if ( Read more... )

Debating whether to increase my 401k contribution. See I dunno, I just put money away for retirement in that form only; I had started an IRA a few years back but really just put in the minimum and then set it off to the side. I own no stocks, except for a small amount which is being purchased through payroll deductions for my company (and which I ( Read more... )