WSJ Your Money Briefing

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Why Supermarkets Are Closin...

01.27.2020

Local supermarkets are closing their in-store pharmacies as large drugstore chains expand their offerings. Wall Street Journal reporter Sharon Terlep explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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01.27.2020 Why Supermarkets Are Closing Their Pharmacy Counters Local supermarkets are closing their in-store pharmacies as large drugstore chains expand their offerings. Wall Street Journal reporter Sharon Terlep explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.24.2020 Is It Time to Get Rid of Security Deposits? Many lawmakers and municipalities are trying to eliminate security deposits in order to make renting more affordable. Wall Street Journal reporter Will Parker explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.23.2020 FICO Changes Could Lower Your Credit Score Wall Street Journal reporter AnnaMaria Andriotis discusses changes coming to the way credit scores are calculated, and how it could make it more difficult for some Americans to borrow money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.22.2020 Considering a New Job? Beware a Culture Misfit Wall Street Journal columnist Joann S. Lublin explains important questions job-seekers should ask to better understand the culture inside a company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.21.2020 The Disappearing Executive Assistant Wall Street Journal reporter Rachel Feintzeig explains why executive assistants have been eliminated from U.S. offices in large numbers over the past two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.17.2020 Attention, Savers: Congress Can Always Change Retirement Breaks Last year, Congress cut the tax benefits of Stretch IRAs, which are passed down to non-spouse heirs. The Wall Street Journal's Laura Saunders reminds us that Congress has long considered trimming retirement breaks, and savers should be aware that their ...
01.16.2020 How Burnout Is Impacting the Health Industry Burnout is high among physicians, especially those between the ages of 40 and 54, a recent survey revealed. The Wall Street Journal's Brianna Abbott discusses what's behind the extra stress and how doctors are coping. Learn more about your ad ...
01.15.2020 A Surge in Luxury Apartment Construction Builders are on track to finish more new apartments in 2020 than in any year since the 1980s. The Wall Street Journal's Will Parker said the rise is led by a spike in luxury apartment rentals. Learn more about your ...
01.14.2020 U.S. Factories Luring Workers With Hefty Perks As they face the task of filling 500,000 unfilled positions, U.S. factories are luring workers with perks such as bonuses and relocation payments. Wall Street Journal reporter Austen Hufford explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.13.2020 Should the Government Provide Americans a Minimum Income? Wall Street Journal reporter Jake Schlesinger discusses a proposal put forth by Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang to issue $1,000 monthly payments to Americans, commonly known as universal basic income. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.10.2020 California Aims to Launch Its Own Prescription Drug Label Wall Street Journal reporter Jared S. Hopkins discusses how a California plan to launch its own prescription drug would use governmental purchasing power to control rising health care costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.09.2020 Some Bonds Tied to Student Loans Won't Mature Until the 2070s Wall Street Journal reporter Cezary Podkul explains how student loan borrowers extending their re-payment schedules have forced issuer of bonds tied to student debt to move the maturity date decades into the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
01.08.2020 What To Do Now To Avoid Amending Your Tax Return Wall Street Journal contributor Tom Herman explains steps taxpayers can take to avoid making costly errors and omissions on their tax returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.07.2020 Municipal Bonds: Supercharged Returns in 2020? Wall Street Journal reporter Heather Gillers discusses 2019's record cash inflow into mutual funds containing municipal bonds, and whether that trend is likely to continue in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.06.2020 The Hottest Thing in Life Insurance Has Serious Risks Indexed universal life insurance, tied to stock market gains, can generate sizable returns for investors. But Wall Street Journal reporter Leslie Scism explains how insurers could be underplaying serious risks to policyholders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.03.2020 Working in the 2020s: Lessons Learned from the 2010s Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter Julia Carpenter spoke with several people who began their careers during the last decade, and are applying wisdom learned about debt, jobs and saving for retirement this year. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
01.02.2020 Creating a Budget in 2020: Not Having a Budget Could Be Best Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter Julia Carpenter explains how creating a budget and not having a budget at all can be equally effective in managing your money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.31.2019 Buying a Car: Some Dealerships Inflate Borrowers' Income A Wall Street Journal analysis has revealed that some car dealerships are dressing up car-loan applications with fake, inflated incomes in order to help a customer secure financing and complete a sale. Reporters Ben Eisen and AnnaMaria Andriotis explain. Learn ...
12.30.2019 What It's Really Like to Be an Airbnb Landlord Wall Street Journal contributor Matthew Kassel explains the taxes and fees, as well as home prep, involved in renting out a room or you entire house through services like Airbnb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.27.2019 Prepaid College Tuition Plans: Pros and Cons Wall Street Journal contributor Cheryl Winokur Munk explains the benefits of prepaying for college tuition. She also discusses the differences between prepaid tuition plans and traditional 529 college savings plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.26.2019 Making Small Adjustment to Your Finances Can Pay Off Big Time Wall Street Journal personal finance and retirement reporter Anne Tergesen discusses tips from coaches and economists to make behavioral changes 'stick' in the new year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.24.2019 OK to Regift Unwanted Presents? Research Says Yes Is it OK to regift a present you received that you don't want? Harvard University's Michael Norton explains research behind regifting, and whether you're likely to offend the original gift-giver, or the regift recipient. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
12.23.2019 New Spending Bill: Inheriting IRAs Just Got Complicated Wall Street Journal tax reporter Laura Saunders explains changes to 'stretch IRAs', which allow savers to pass on IRA holdings on to grandchildren and younger generations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.20.2019 Spending Bill: Big Changes for Retirement System Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Tergesen outlines key major changes to the nation's retirement system in the new spending bill approved by Congress this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.19.2019 Options Traders Are Preparing for a Market Decline Wall Street Journal reporter Gunjan Banerji explains that, despite the market's current upward trend, many options traders are spending large sums of money to hedge against a market pullback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.18.2019 Hidden Fees Dent Teachers' Retirement Savings Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Tergesen explains how hidden fees, the result of ties between administrators hired by school districts for their teacher retirement plans and the companies behind the plans themselves, cost teachers significant amount of money in their ...
12.17.2019 Bitcoin: What Could Trigger Another Rally? On the two-year anniversary of bitcoin's all-time high, Wall Street Journal cryptocurrency reporter Paul Vigna explains why trading has remained at such low levels, and what could trigger another run higher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.16.2019 Brexit: How Investors Can Make Money Pictet Asset Management's Richard Dias explains how investors can capitalize on the U.K.'s plan to separate from the European Union. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.13.2019 Grocers Are Racing to Fulfill Your Online Orders The nation's largest grocers are spending millions to build warehouses in anticipation of more shoppers ordering groceries online. Wall Street Journal Jaewon Kang explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.12.2019 Lululemon Puts the Spotlight on Men's Clothing Lululemon became a multi-billion dollar company through the sale of yoga clothing, but it is re-directing the spotlight on its line of high-end men's apparel. Wall Street Journal reporter Charity Scott explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.11.2019 Picking 401(k) Funds Can Be as Easy as ABC, and That's Bad Research has revealed that many 401(k) retirement plan participants select funds based on the first letter of the fund's name, or if the fund appears at the top of a list, rather than researching financial data. Wall Street Journal contributor ...
12.10.2019 U.S. Factories: White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work Wall Street Journal reporter Austen Hufford explains how problem solving and computerized automation required in post-recession manufacturing jobs means workers with college degrees will soon outnumber those without. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.09.2019 Freelance Workers Should Make These Tax Moves Now Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Saunders discusses tax moves freelance workers should make before the Dec. 31 deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.06.2019 Online Mattress Business: Never-Ending Free Trials Wall Street Journal reporter Stephanie Yang explains how some online mattress customers sign up for a series of free trials from numerous companies over the course of several years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.05.2019 How Sly Travelers Cut Their Airfares in Half Wall Street Journal 'Middle Seat' columnist Scott McCartney explains how airlines adding new routes to their schedules can result in substantial reductions in airfares. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.04.2019 How to Have Productive Money Talks With Family Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter Julia Carpenter discusses how different generations of family members can make conversations about money less awkward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.03.2019 Credit Unions Are All Grown Up Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Eisen explains how many credit unions have become big enough to purchase small banks. He also discusses concerns that some credit unions may struggle during a recession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.02.2019 Beware the Gift Card Scam Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Jargon explains how scammers posing as grandchildren, government officials and tech-support agents trick people into purchasing store gift cards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.29.2019 Amazon, Target, Walmart: The One-Day Shipping Battle Wall Street Journal corporate bureau chief Marcelo Prince explains the competition between retailers Amazon, Target and Walmart to provide one-day shipping to customers during the holiday season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.27.2019 Holiday Shopping and the Generational Divide Wall Street Journal style reporter Ray A. Smith explains how different generations approach shopping during the holidays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.26.2019 Why the StubHub Sale Won't Solve All of EBay's Problems Heard on the Street columnist Dan Gallagher explains why EBay sold ticketing business StubHub, and why the sale won't remove EBay from Amazon's shadow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.25.2019 Business Activity Pumps U.S. Economy Amid Global Slowdown Amid a prolonged global economic slowdown, the U.S. economy is showing strength thanks to increased business activity. Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Hannon explains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.22.2019 Why Some Unions Are Losing Members, and Revenue Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher discusses the impact of a 2018 Supreme Court decision that allowed union members to opt out of membership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.21.2019 New Data: Which College Graduates Make the Most? Wall Street Journal reporter Andrea Fuller discusses new government data detailing the salaries, as well as debt liabilities, of recent college graduates according to their major. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.20.2019 Health Savings Accounts: Your Questions Answered Wall Street Journal reporter Anne Tergesen explains the benefits of health savings accounts, or HSAs, and how they can be an effective savings tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.19.2019 How to Find Cheap Stocks in a Hot Stock Market Wall Street Journal markets reporter Michael Wursthorn discusses how the S&P 500 Value Index has risen 11% over the three months, and how small investors can take part in the current value stocks rally. Learn more about your ad choices. ...
11.18.2019 Elizabeth Warren's Tax Plan: Rates for Some Could Exceed 100% Wall Street Journal tax reporter Richard Rubin discusses Democratic presidential candidate Richard Rubin discusses Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's proposed tax plan. Under the plan, some wealthy Americans could face rates above 100%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
11.15.2019 Tax Tips: Make These Changes Now to Save in 2020 Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Saunders discusses moves taxpayers should make before the end of the year that could save them money when preparing their tax returns in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.14.2019 Google to Offer Checking Accounts Google plans to offer checking accounts to its U.S. users next year. Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Rudegair explains how customers will access their money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.13.2019 Baby Boomers Staying Home, Not Moving into Senior Housing Wall Street Journal reporter Peter Grant explains how 'aging in place' technology is encouraging baby boomers to stay in their homes and not move to senior housing. (News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a commercial agreement to ...

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