Gun-Slinging Your Money in the Wild West of Financial Deregulation
What might deregulation mean to your personal finances?
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Millennial Money
“You try to plan your cash flow perfectly, but unexpected problems and unforeseen timing can result in overdrafts for even the most careful people.”
Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jul 19
- 5 min
The Middle of the Night Call – How to Protect Family Finances When Children Make Mistakes
How can you best protect your child, yourself, and your finances when an emergency occurs?
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 6
- 5 min
Term Life Insurance – The Most Loving $30-a-Month Gift You Can Give
Term life insurance is a type of life insurance that provides a death benefit to your beneficiaries if you die. Learn more about term life.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 3
- 4 min
IRS Form 1065 and Your LLC – How Much in Penalties?!@*#?!
Crazy high 1065 late penalty for your LLC? Form 1065 is an important tax form for partnerships and LLCs. Here's what to do.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- May 16
- 6 min
Tips for Parents Who Are Struggling Financially
How can you be the best parent you can be when you don’t have enough money?
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Rights? I Have Rights? What the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Means for Reducing Taxes
What the Taxpayer Bill of Rights Means for You
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Feb 3, 2022
- 8 min
How to Climb Out of 1099-MISC Hell (and Another Rung Down – the 1099-NEC)
1099-MISC? or 1099-NEC? How to do your taxes as a gig worker.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Sep 15, 2021
- 5 min
Could Cooking at Home Actually Be MORE Expensive than Eating Out?
Conventional wisdom has us believe that cooking at home is always less expensive than eating out. Is it? Maybe not.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
Goaded Into It
To “goad” means to provoke or annoy so as to stimulate a reaction. Goading has become a national addiction, and we need to get clean.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
How Other People Live: The Writer’s Curse and Blessing
One characteristic of writers seems to be an interest in observing the actions and guessing at the thoughts of the people around us.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Oct 30, 2020
- 7 min
Bring Back the Personal Exemption: TCJA Tax Reform Hypocrisy
By taking away the personal exemption, the tax reform bill of 2017 hurt many middle-class taxpayers, especially America’s big families.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Aug 15, 2020
- 4 min
Run Your Family Like A Corporation
By acting like a thriving corporation, your family can be more successful.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
Take Stock of Social Security Retirement Benefits
When you retire and no longer earn money, you’ll probably need to rely on a combination of your savings and your Social Security retirement.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Aug 1, 2020
- 4 min
Fixed Income Investing: Bonds vs Bond Funds in a Rising Rate Environment
Investing in a bond “fund” is different in several crucial ways from investing in a single bond.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jul 5, 2020
- 4 min
4 Money Must-dos If You Want Basic Financial Security
What really matters when it comes to financial safety?
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
4 Simple Actions to Achieve Financial Safety
What are the fewest bits of advice you need to keep yourself financially safe?
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 21, 2020
- 3 min
How to Cope When You Don’t Know the Ending – Covid-19
Yes, I always read the last pages of a book first so that I know how it ends. Why? Because I like to prepare myself for the worst.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 8, 2020
- 4 min
Pickled and Smoked: Domestic Habits of My Parents’ Generation
How did my parents' generation consume so much alcohol and smoke so regularly yet still accomplish so much?
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
Happy Marriages and Financial Planning
Couples in happy marriages do lots of things together, including financial planning.
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Kathryn Hauer, CFP®, EA
- Jun 5, 2020
- 4 min
Mother Hubbard’s Crying the Tax-Kickin’ Blues: How the TCJA Hurts Your Big Family
If you have a lot of kids, you are probably paying more total taxes as a result of TCJA tax reform than you did before.
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