Wall Street veteran Sallie Krawcheck has just launched Ellevest, an online investment firm catering only to women. She wants to stop women from making bad mistakes with their money.
It's a long shot. But whether you accumulate a seven-figure nest egg by the time you retire, depends on a number of factors, but mostly boils down to how diligently you save and how long you're willing to continue working.
Average nationwide prices for heating oil have gone from from just over $4 per gallon in early 2014, to just over $2 now. Natural gas has dropped even more.
Laws intended to nab criminals have ended up hurting innocent individuals, whose bank assets get taken by the IRS. In the case of a North Carolina convenience store owner, the IRS has finally agreed to repay him in full, his lawyer said.