While the President and Congress are feuding over funding governmental operations, some federal workers are not being paid.  As the length of the shutdown grows, some are getting concerned about how it will affect their lives.

Many people set aside time before January 1st to make promises to themselves to do better in one or more areas of their lives. However, statistics show that only 9.2 percent of people ever achieve their New Year’s resolutions. Here are the steps that I use in my goal setting process.

As we head into the uncertainty that is 2019, here are some things you can still do this year to make sure you are prepared financially for the year to come.

Earlier this year, I wrote how the TCJA passed by Congress last December would be a vexing problem for tax planning issues. It seems as if concerns about higher tax burdens being faced by middle- to upper-middle-income families may be overblown.