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I’m a CEO Who Works Nonstop — So I Started Living in My Office to Save Time and Money. Here's How It Went by Alistair Vigier Would you ever consider living inside your office? I did. While working 70-hour weeks building my law firm, I didn’t want to have to think about finding a place to rent. The thought of meeting real estate agents, doing furniture shopping, and having to clean my condo on top of those long work weeks was too much.

The Bond Market Has Sent a Big Recession Signal. Here's What to Do by Ian Salisbury Earlier this month, bond market investors sent one the clearest signals yet that the U.S. economy is teetering on the edge of a recession. For the first time since the 2007 financial crisis, yields on 2-year Treasury bonds slipped below those of longer-dated 10-year notes. The move, known as “yield curve inversion,” has preceded every recession since the 1970s.

Why You Should Have a Separate Savings Account Just for Beyoncé Expenses, According to Financial Experts by Julia Glum More so than normal, August is all about the Jonas Brothers for me. After breaking up six years ago, they’re going back on tour, and I have crazy-expensive tickets to see THREE shows in August. I am EXTREMELY excited. When I was a teenager, my mom bankrolled my burnin’ (up) passion for the band of brunette brothers.

Costco’s Freezer Aisle Is a Treasure Trove of Cheap Lunch Options. Here Are 8 Favorites for Under $2 by Gina Zakaria Buying lunch at work or school can be costly and time-consuming. Based on the average cost of a takeout lunch — the usual range is between $5 to $15 — imagine what you could do with an extra $1,200 to $3,600 every year? And it’s not just a waste of money.

Another New Study Confirms It: Actively Managed Funds Almost Never Beat the Market by Rob Curran It’s the active-passive paradox – almost every investor agrees that it’s nigh impossible to beat the market, and almost every investor tries to anyway. Even Vanguard Investments, the fund firm founded by Jack Bogle, high priest of passive investing, is guilty of this stock-picking exceptionalism, according to a new study.

Here's How Much Woodstock Performers Got Paid 50 Years Ago — and Who's the Richest Star Now by Brad Tuttle Before Woodstock was a cultural phenomenon, it was a financial fiasco. Organizers behind the legendary music festival in upstate New York, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer, said they wound up $1.3 million in debt after the historic 1969 event—roughly $9 million in today’s dollars.

If You're Self-Employed, You Might Be Making This Big Retirement Mistake by Alix Langone Self-employed Americans have a serious saving problem, according to a new study. People who work for themselves are simply not stashing away enough cash for a comfortable retirement, a report from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies finds.

Sorority 'Big/Little' Hauls Are One of the Most Addicting (and Expensive) YouTube Trends Right Now by Kristen Bahler It’s a school night in late February, and YouTuber Ashana Sule is losing her friggin’ mind over some marble drink coasters. “These look really expensiiiiiiiive,” she tells the camera, beaming. “It’s like, I can’t. I don’t deserve this. I don’t understand.

3 Lessons for Picking the Right College by Kaitlin Mulhere For our annual ranking of the best colleges in the U.S., MONEY considered more than 19,000 data points including graduation rates, tuition fees, family borrowing, and alumni salaries to identify the colleges that best combine quality and affordability.

This is the Best College for Your Money by Kaitlin Mulhere Five years ago, a group of faculty members at the University of California-Irvine decided to “out” themselves. At the large research university, where more than half of students are the first in their families to go to college, these faculty would proudly say: Us, too. It was a simple gesture. But it carried a powerful message for those 14,000 undergrads at Irvine.

I've Had an Olive Garden Pasta Pass 5 Years in a Row. Here Are My True Confessions — and My Top Dining Tips by Rachel Chang I held the green-and-brown card in my hand. It seemed so innocent, yet powerful. I had heard and dreamed about it, but now I couldn’t believe I was actually in possession of the seemingly mythical Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Pass.

These Are the New Rules for Finding a Financial Advisor You Can Trust by Kerri Anne Renzulli and Alix Langone Choosing a financial advisor has always been a confusing, high-stakes decision, and critics say a recent regulation designed to help consumers may actually have made it harder to know whom to trust. On its face, the new measure, known as Regulation Best Interest, sounds promising. Adopted in June by the U.S.

You Actually *Can* Ask for More Vacation Time. How to Request (And Get!) the Time Off You Deserve, According to Experts by Olivia Raimonde People are pushing for more time off, but the majority are failing — miserably. When accepting a job offer, only 54% of people even asked to negotiate their vacation time, and 59% of those people failed to get their companies to budge, according to data from a new survey on Monster.com.

16 Things I'll Never Miss About Working in an Office — and 8 Tips for Working From Home by Laura Belgray In my work lifetime, I’ve had what you’d call “dream jobs” at cool companies. I was an ad copywriter at SPY Magazine and New York Magazine, and a promo writer at the Viacom networks Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, and TV Land.

We Asked 3 Prominent Investors Where They See the Stock Market in 10 Years. What They Say Could Change How You Save for Retirement by Alix Langone The U.S. just entered its longest period of economic expansion, but signs point to a slowdown ahead. It’s a good time to reevaluate your investing approach, since what worked in the past might not be as effective going forward. Financial pros caution that key indicators of a weakening economy have been “flashing red” for some time now.