Finding new ways to hide travel fees

Finding new ways to hide travel fees

When you travel, there’s a fee for everything. Change an airline ticket, pay a fee. Forget to fill your car rental gas tank, pay a fee. Cancel your hotel reservation, pay a fee. Travel companies may have run out of new things for which to charge you, not to...
Do Our Biases Inhibit Our Retirement Savings Efforts?

Do Our Biases Inhibit Our Retirement Savings Efforts?

They may affect our attempts to build wealth.    Picture an 18-wheeler, its 4,000-cubic-foot cargo trailer filled to capacity with stacks of $100 bills. The driver shuts and locks the trailer, closing the door on roughly $10 billion. Now imagine that truck driving off...
Filial Responsibility Laws

Filial Responsibility Laws

Could you be required to provide financial support to your parents? Imagine your parents outliving their money. A terrible thought, right? Should this occur, there will be one of two outcomes. Either your parents will move in with you (or someone else), or your...
Elder Abuse:  The Elephant in the Room

Elder Abuse: The Elephant in the Room

A growing problem in the United States is what is called “elder abuse”.  It occurs in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and especially in the safety of home.  It is not always intentional, but it often is.  Elder abuse can be neglect or it can be conscious...