The Simple Dollar

Almost 40 percent of the food supply in this country never gets eaten, due to loss and waste, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (“Loss” refers to things like mold and shrinkage due to desiccation.) More than half of that loss and waste is due to the way we use – or don’t use – the food we buy. Stop throwing money away! […]

Let’s start off with a fact that’s “mildly interesting” on the surface, but takes on a whole different set of meanings when you dig in a little bit. The average American household spends $7,203 a year on food, of which $4,049 is spent on food at home and $3,154 is spent on food away from home. Let’s break that down a little bit into numbers that are more practical for how you and I live our lives. […]

I recently learned an amazing fact: During the height of the Cold War, a Russian military officer named Stanislav Petrov got an alert on his computer that the United States had launched a nuclear weapon at Moscow. Petrov was in charge of launching a nuke back at America should Russia feel threatened — and at that moment, he had every reason to do so. […]

If you’ve been saving for retirement for a number of years, all the while advancing in your career and moving between jobs, you might have a number of different retirement accounts spread out across a number of different companies. Managing all of those accounts can get confusing. […]