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Your Money, Explained

Explainers, advice, and tools to help you navigate all things money and personal finance.

Money Talks: The couple making it work during coronavirus layoffs
Money

Ryan and Julie work in the entertainment industry and were already living paycheck to paycheck. Now Ryan is navigating unemployment.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
Money Talks: This family declared bankruptcy. Now they’re figuring out how to rebuild.
Money

The Running Balance newsletter follows a family of four living on one income in a major US city. Here’s how they do it.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
Money Talks: How this self-employed couple pays for health insurance
Money

Dan hosts a podcast about the cost of healthcare — but it doesn’t actually provide him with it.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
Money
I’ve eaten a meal replacement shake twice a day for two years. Here’s what it was like.I’ve eaten a meal replacement shake twice a day for two years. Here’s what it was like.
Money

Huel — a competitor to Soylent — is my breakfast and lunch. This is what I get out of it.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
Money Talks: She makes triple his salary
Money

How a married couple living in NYC handles a financial imbalance — and the flipping of traditional gender roles.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
Money Talks: He has a kid, she doesn’t
Money

Sorting out mortgages and car payments can be tricky — especially when a child from a previous marriage is involved.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
Money Talks: One friend got married, the other was her maid of honor
Money

Two friends discuss the costs (emotional and financial) of participating in one’s special day.

By Nicole Dieker Finley
The best $5,929.10 I ever spent: moving back to the Midwest
Money

Moving from Seattle to Cedar Rapids cost nearly $6,000, and I’m so glad I did it.

By Nicole Dieker Finley