Emily Guy Birken

Financial independence (and specifically the Financial Independence Retire Early or FIRE movement) has been in the news quite a bit...

Visualize for a moment that you have everything you want in your life. You feel fulfilled by your work, relaxed about your finances, and...

We’re often told that money can’t buy happiness. The best things in life are free, after all, and money only works if you take it...

Personal finance literature can be full of the kind of simple-yet-unhelpful advice that no one knows how to take—things like, you should...

Well-entrenched spending habits can be difficult to shake. If you’re in the habit of impulse buying, paying for convenience, or engaging...

Last week, we talked about finding the budgeting routine that will work for you. But that’s a little like finding the flossing routine...

Our culture often teaches us that there is one right way to do things. This is a common issue with personal finance advice, where experts...

When purchasing art supplies for my most recent art class, I bought every item on the supply list instead of looking through the supplies...

On October 27, 2018, a gunman opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing 11 congregants. October 27...

This is a picture of my dad with LO in 2010, when LO was no more than a few months old. LO asked me about this photo this morning, and we...

If you start asking what your money wants, you'll also start making better money choices.

If you are a Chase credit card customer, you probably received an email on May 31 with the subject line Important information regarding...