In 2016, when I was 35, and my wife Courtney was 32, we sold our house, a 4 bed, 2 bath 1,600-square-foot Arizona home, moved into a 200-square-foot Airstream RV with our two dogs, and set up our new home in a KOA campground in Tucson. It was the first of many big changes for us. By that point, I had saved about $900,000, enough to give myself some breathing room, and quit a job that I hated in software development. Courtney, a rocket scientist, joined me in throwing off the bonds of a 9-to-5 in 2017, and we hit the road.DON’T…
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The most-hyped WNBA regular season since the league’s inception delivered excitement from start to finish, but the real drama is just getting started. After a 2023 season that seemed like one long prelude to the Aces-versus-Liberty finals, the 2024 playoffs promise more chaos and intrigue from the get-go.Here are five burning questions for the 2024 postseason, starting with how this whole format works and a breakdown of each series.How are the playoffs structured?The top eight teams in the league, regardless of conference, qualify for the postseason. The first-round matchups are 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, and…
The national household median income grew by about 4% between 2022 and 2023, according to the latest Census Bureau Current Population Survey estimates. That may not seem like much, but it’s the first significant annual increase Americans have seen since 2019, the Bureau reports. From 2018 to 2019, the median household income nationally grew about 7%. But then it stayed around the same or dropped slightly — until 2023.At the state level, income changes were even more drastic. South Dakota saw the largest increase both in dollars and percentage growth.The median household income there was $81,740 in 2023, up from $69,850…
College football’s Week 4 didn’t have any truly stunning upsets, but we got to know more about the teams that should be in College Football Playoff contention at the end of the year. Some teams aren’t out of it, while others aren’t as dominant as we expected, and the pool for one spot looks a lot bigger than it did a week ago.Here are five lessons from Week 4 as they relate to the CFP:1. Clemson’s not done yetIt seemed the college football world moved past Clemson after the opening 34-3 loss to Georgia, but reports of the Tigers’ demise…
Steve Smith | Tetra Images | Getty ImagesHandling the estate of a deceased parent can be an emotional process for children already dealing with grief. Those emotions can become more complicated if the estate plan doesn’t unfold as expected — say, if there is an uneven split of assets among children or a previously unknown heir who comes forward to claim a share of the estate.Feelings of pain and betrayal can be avoided by having discussions about your estate plan with your family before death; however, estate planning attorneys say these conversations are rare.About two-thirds of Americans, 68%, say discussing end-of-life…
As the Las Vegas Aces begin their quest for a third consecutive WNBA championship, their star forward, A’ja Wilson, will lead the team having received the league’s highest honor. On Sunday, Wilson was named the 2024 WNBA MVP, becoming only the second player ever to win the award unanimously and the first since the Houston Comets’ Cynthia Cooper-Dyke in the league’s 1997 inaugural season. That Wilson took home the award was of little surprise. Her season was arguably the most dominant in WNBA history. She set a new WNBA single-season scoring record (26.9 points per game) and also set single-season records…
It could be time to rethink popular portfolio strategies for a lower interest rate environment.The Federal Reserve’s half-percent rate cut on Wednesday marked the first time in more than four years it moved to lower the benchmark interest rate. According to VanEck CEO Jan van Eck, investors should start thinking about how the changing macro environment will affect their investments in the year ahead.”Investors should look at their equity book and say, ‘How should I construct that to ride through the cycle of the next year?'” he told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” last week. “Just buying the S&P alone is a…
Heading into this Premier League weekend, Manchester City were top of the table and Arsenal were in second place.It all feels extremely familiar.In 2022-23, Arsenal lost home and away to City, and finished five points behind them. Last season, Arsenal beat City in London but drew with them in Manchester and ended up two points adrift of them in the final standings. When the margins separating the winners and losers in title races are tiny, winning away to your rivals for the trophy is important. But does the fact we are so early into the new season mean another stalemate…
The Federal Reserve kicked off its long-awaited easing campaign with a bang this week, cutting the federal funds by hefty 50 basis points. Investors viewed the aggressive reduction — the first in four years — as largely positive, with the three averages all finishing in the black. The S & P 500 advanced 1.36%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.62% to a new all-time high, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite increased 1.49%. That’s not to say it’s easy sailing from here. We still have a possible government shutdown, a hotly contested presidential election, and growing tensions in the Middle…
Stay informed on all the biggest stories in Formula 1. Sign up here to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Monday and Friday. Lando Norris wins his third Formula One race of the season, taking the Singapore Grand Prix 20 seconds ahead of Max Verstappen.This narrows the driver championship gap to 52 points, with Verstappen still in the lead.Norris was still leading by the end of Lap 1, and he began building a gap to Verstappen, getting over 11.5 seconds clear by Lap 17. But behind the leaders at the start, it was a messy Turn 1 as numerous cars ran…
