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Simplify Your Retirement With These 8 Money Tips 03/14/2018 08:00pm • Workers nearing retirement tend to assume their life will slow down once they leave the workforce. But many retirees find the opposite is true. As you develop a retirement routine and your calendar fills up, you'll want to spend less time on mundane tasks, such as managing your money, to make room 10 Ways to Pay Your Taxes This Year 03/14/2018 08:00pm • While the majority of tax-filers will receive a tax refund this year, millions of others have to send tax payments to the government by April 17. For tax year 2015, the most recent year available, about 29 million tax returns (19 percent) required payment at time of filing, for a total of about $1 Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD) Outlook Still Bleak Despite Earning Beat 03/14/2018 08:00pm • Sears Holdings Corp (Nasdaq: SHLD) stock fell more than 1 percent Thursday after the company cleared an extremely low bar in reporting fourth-quarter earnings. Despite the earnings beat, its still difficult for analysts or investors to justify owning the stock until the company makes some major chan Montgomery County's Green Bank launches first loan product. Here's its plan for the future 03/14/2018 05:00am • Montgomery County Green Bank is launching its first loan product for businesses to finance energy efficiency projects — part of a larger plan to spend $14 million in settlement money from the 2016 acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc. by Exelon Corp. The new Commercial Loan for Energy Efficiency Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency 03/13/2018 08:00pm • Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are cryptic to say the least. Some people consider bitcoin a currency, others an investment and still others a store of value. Even government agencies can't agree on what bitcoin truly is. The IRS treats it as property, the Securities and Exchange Commission cons The Pros and Cons of Credit Cards 03/12/2018 08:00pm • A 3-inch-by-2-inch piece of plastic holds the power to simplify your financial life -- or ruin it. Whether a credit card turns out to be friend or foe depends on how you use it, says Beverly Harzog, a credit expert and author of "The Debt Escape Plan." "Credit cards are not evil," she says. "They r 5 Signs You Will Never Retire 03/11/2018 08:00pm • Most Americans aren't saving nearly enough for retirement. Some workers who haven't saved fear that they will never be able to retire. However, there may still be time to change course and reach your retirement goals. If you sit down with a financial planner or even a retirement calculator, you shou 10 Factors That Don't Affect Your Credit Scores 03/11/2018 08:00pm • You probably know that having great credit lifts your finances like hot air in a balloon. It allows you to borrow at low interest rates, which saves huge amounts of interest on loans and credit cards. Additionally, having good credit helps your financial life in some surprising ways, including payin 7 Dividend Stocks Yielding 7 Percent and More 03/08/2018 07:00pm • Sharing the profitIn a troubled market environment, some investors have considered selling their stocks. But where are you going to go, considering the bond market is also in turmoil amid rising interest rates? You could park cash in a CD at your local bank, but those returns barely keep up with the $1 billion in unclaimed tax refunds; time running out to claim them 03/08/2018 05:09pm • WASHINGTON — About a million people who failed to file 2014 taxes are sitting on more than $1 billion in unclaimed federal income tax refunds, the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday. But in order to collect that hefty chunk of cash, they'll have to dig out those old W-2s and file their 3 Reasons to Apply for Scholarships That Offer More Than Money 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Scholarship application essays often ask how winning an award could change your life. It's hard not to just think about the ways money could help with college costs. A $10,000 scholarship, for example, could help you bridge the gap between your savings and a college's cost of attendance. It also co Why We Keep Making the Same Money Mistakes 03/07/2018 07:00pm • In theory, money management should be easy. Finance experts like Dave Ramsey and Mary Hunt say it boils down to spending less than you earn and saving enough for retirement and a rainy day. But in practice, people struggle to master managing their finances. As of December 2017, Americans collective Escape DC? Tackle student loan debt? Get paid to move to rural America 03/07/2018 04:03am • WASHINGTON — Small towns in rural America are facing an economic survival crisis, and some are offering incentives to get people to move there. Take, for example, Loup City, Nebraska, population: 1,000. Loup City has turned farmland into a small neighborhood near town, named John Subdivision, w Amazon Banking Targets Low-Income Shoppers 03/06/2018 07:00pm • Bank investors may have gotten a little bit uneasy this week after the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is exploring the possibility of launching Amazon-branded checking accounts for customers. On the surface, it may appear that Amazon is directing its famous disrup What Student Loan Borrowers Need to Know If Gainful Employment Rule Changes 03/06/2018 07:00pm • The gainful employment rule -- which aims to protect student loan borrowers by regulating poorly performing higher education programs -- has a long history of being debated and modified. Now, it's being revamped again. A third and final negotiated rule-making session will be held on March 12 to de