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Dear Dave, I graduated from college two years ago, and I have a good job making $60,000. I have about $10,000 in student loan debt, but my mom and dad have a real issue with their roof. It’s leaking in places to the point they have to set buckets aro...

The forecast calls for a market correction. The hard part is figuring out what to do about it. On Tuesday, billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman joined a long list of money mavens who foresee trouble for US stocks. Cooperman told the CNBC Ins...

Dear Dave, I’m 58 years old and have nothing set aside for retirement. My wife and I are on Baby Step 2 of your plan and paying off debt. We have $37,000 in debt not counting our home, and five kids still at home. We have a household income of $73,00...

Over the course of my career, I have had more than my fair share of good market calls. I credit a combination of hard work (6 per cent), insight (4 per cent) and uncanny good luck (90 per cent). There’s not much to say about the 90 per cent, but the ...

Dear Dave, I have a full-time job, but I also have a small Etsy business on the side selling ten products that makes about $200 a month. I don’t see the money from this part-time work getting any bigger in the future. Should I keep a separate account...

Dear Dave, I’ve seen lots of companies marketing prepaid debit cards for children. They seem to position them as a way parents can set spending limits for their children. Do you think these are a good idea? It seems to me they are just a form of cond...

If the events of recent weeks (or years) have you asking yourself, “What is wrong with these people?” — the answer is: not very much. They simply suffer from a small but crucial error in the way their brains create models of the world around them. Th...

Dear Dave, We’re following your plan, and we’re in the middle of paying off all our debts except for the house. My wife just learnt she’ll be losing her job at the end of the year. She’s a project manager for a software company in Seattle, and she wi...

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is worried about a bond bubble. “By any measure, real long-term interest rates are much too low and therefore unsustainable,” Greenspan said in a recent interview. “When they move higher they are likely ...

Dear Dave, I’m debt-free except for my home, and I’m considering having solar panels installed on the roof of the house. It would cost about $27,000. I have $80,000 in savings, but the company doing the installation will finance it all for just one p...