Personal finance is different for women – they earn less on average, take time out of the work force to raise children and live longer than men. According to Janine Rogan, author of a new book called The Pink Tax, women face an even bigger burden in the form of a financial system that works to keep them broke. The Pink Tax explains how women can “patriarchy-proof” their finances. It’s personal finance with an overlay of financial feminism. To find out more, I invited Ms. Rogan to do an e-mail...

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We seem to be approaching a milestone in the normalization of parental financial support for adult children. The narrative to date has been about parents digging into their savings, or going into debt, to help adult kids with home down payments, rent and other living costs. Now, I’m starting to hear anecdotes about adult kids asking their parents for money in the form of an early inheritance. The latest comes in a blog post by a financial planner. He writes about an exchange on social media...

The last normal summer was in 2019. Since then, we’ve slipped into what feels like a perma-crisis world of pandemic, war in Europe, an overloaded health care system and climate change disruption. The world isn’t headed back to the quieter days of 2019 any time soon, and neither are your personal finances. Here are five realities, both good and bad, to guide your planning. Roughly two-thirds of the population is seeing the highest interest rates of their lives for savings Only boomers and...