Fifty years ago today (August 31, 1976), Jack Bogle and Vanguard launched the first index mutual fund: First Index Investment Trust, which tracked the ...

A reader writes in, asking:“You have said, and I have read elsewhere also, that passkeys are ‘phishing resistant.’ I’m ready to believe that, because ...

TIPS maturing in 2046 or later are yielding slightly above 3% as of last Friday. (And TIPS maturing 2042-2045 aren’t far below 3%.)It’s important to ...

In a recent paper, David Blanchett found (again) that household spending tends to decrease over the course of retirement. That is, it increases, but not as ...

A quick announcement for today: I just released the 2026 edition of Taxes Made Simple. It includes all the stuff that’s new for 2026 (and 2025), such as the ...

A reader writes in, asking:“What is your view on owning TIPS ladder (Bogleheads preferred) or short term TIPS fund when the majority of expenses are covered ...

The Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds released their annual report this month. The big headline finding: “The Old-Age and Survivors ...

Password manager providers are naturally attractive targets for hackers. So a critical question to ask is: what happens if an attacker manages to access the ...

In February of 2026, Morningstar bought CRSP (the Center for Research in Securities Prices), which until that point was owned by the University of Chicago. ...

A reader writes, asking“With Spacex’s recent IPO and other upcoming IPOs and the changes that the index fund providers are making, would it be more ...