Consider This Program: Consider This Program & Jeffrey Mount, PHD

The government measures price-changes that occur in the cost of goods and services in the economy. They represent that measurement in an index, and then use that index to inflate the cost of government programs. The most often quoted measurement is the consumer price index (CPI). This index measures items like, housing, apparel, transportation, medical

The time has come for planners to claim language that is better suited to personal financial planning than the jargon we scrounged from accounting and finance in our infancy. In this article, we call for a revision the overused and imprecise verbs, “Rebalance” and “Rebalancing” and employ instead, “Age” and “Aging” as language refinements that

The balance sheet is among the most rudimentary of financial tools. Thanks to its omnipresence nearly everyone can explain the difference between assets and liabilities as net worth. Mortgage applications, financial plans and corporate filings bear witness to the universal acceptance of this base unit of financial knowledge.   Test the point by answering this