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Fifty is one of those birthdays that comes with a side of math. You start doing it without meaning to, checking what you make against what everyone else your age pulls in, and wondering if...

You’re clearing out a closet and you find a shoebox of old phones nobody bothered to recycle. A Motorola flip phone, a chunky little gaming gadget you begged your parents for, a T-Mobile Sidekick with...

You turn 65, your accounts settle into whatever they’re going to be, and the Social Security checks start showing up. The obvious next question is how your number lines up against everyone else’s. The typical...

You’re cleaning out your grandfather’s dresser and there’s a cigar box shoved in the back of a drawer. Inside is a rubber-banded stack of old $5 bills, the kind with red or blue ink instead...

You’re at checkout with the cart already unloaded, and instead of tapping your debit card, you tap “pay in 4.” The app splits the bill into four payments spread over six weeks. You walk out...

August is an odd in-between month. It is still hot enough to want cold desserts and anything labeled “cooling,” but work, school, and fall routines are already creeping back onto the calendar. A few small...