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1 week ago | 
advisorstream.com | Veronica Dagher |Ron Phillips
By Veronica Dagher May 27, 2025 More starter homes are being built, but the situation isn’t a return to the 1950s Homes have been getting smaller over the past few years. Why haven’t they been getting more affordable? Builders have started making more entry-level starter homes, but not tons of them. The small homes they do build are still subject to rising costs for land and labor.
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2 weeks ago | 
advisorstream.com | Ashlea Ebeling |Richard Rubin |Ron Phillips
By Ashlea Ebeling and Richard Rubin May 23, 2025 Republicans’ giant tax and spending bill aims to give people a bigger break for taxes they pay to state and local governments, but not everybody will benefit. The bill, which the House passed early Thursday, would let some people deduct up to $40,000 on their federal returns for the money they pay in property taxes on their homes, and state income or sales taxes.
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2 weeks ago | 
advisorstream.com | Juliet Chung |Ron Phillips
By Juliet Chung | Photographs by Caleb Alvarado for WSJ May 20, 2025 Derek Olson grew up dreaming about the thrill of running his own business. Decades later, that dream came true and made him wealthy—just not exactly in the way he expected. Olson has made a fortune making machines that rip up flooring, like carpeting in elementary schools.
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3 weeks ago | 
advisorstream.com | Ben Steverman |Ron Phillips
By Ben Steverman May 14, 2025 The $4 trillion tax bill released May 12 by House Republicans, which sets the stage for a Congressional battle over President Donald Trump’s key economic legislation, includes an unusual provision: the creation of a new savings vehicle dubbed “MAGA accounts” that would be seeded with $1,000 for each American baby born in the next few years.
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1 month ago | 
advisorstream.com | Matt Grossman |Oyin Adedoyin |Ron Phillips
By Matt Grossman and Oyin Adedoyin May 5, 2025 The Trump administration is starting to put millions of defaulted student-loan borrowers into collections and threatening to confiscate their wages, tax refunds and federal benefits. There are some five million borrowers whose loans are in default, many of whom haven’t made regular payments since the pandemic. Millions more are on the cusp of default, according to the Education Department.
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1 month ago | 
advisorstream.com | Steve Garmhausen |Ron Phillips
By Steve Garmhausen May 2, 2025 It’s a big mistake to think of women as a niche wealth management market, says Kara Duckworth. “Women are not a niche—they are more than half of the population—but they have some needs that may be different,” says Duckworth, who is managing director of client experience at $69 billion-asset Mercer Advisors, in Denver, which was .
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1 month ago | 
advisorstream.com | Barbara Peterson |Ron Phillips
By Barbara Peterson May 2, 2025 Booking a vacation with a budget in mind means you’ll try anything to get the best price. Here, the trip-planning myths to disregard: Myth: Tuesday is the best day to book the cheapest airfare. Once grounded in reality, this shibboleth dates back to when plane reservations relied on manual intervention.
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1 month ago | 
advisorstream.com | Deborah Acosta |Ron Phillips
By Deborah Acosta April 22, 2025 Florida is contending with a condo crisis, and the ballooning costs of ownership are a big reason why. Retirees Rob and Karen Dickson moved from upstate New York to Punta Gorda, Fla., in 2021. They paid $319,000 for a condo with a terrace on the third floor, overlooking a golf course inside their gated community. After nine holes, they would have lunch at the club and then go for a swim. “It was wildly affordable,” Rob said.
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1 month ago | 
advisorstream.com | Andrew Beaton |Ron Phillips
By Andrew Beaton April 17, 2025 Augusta National has long held itself up as the American keeper of the spirit of golf. So it echoed loudly around the sport last week when club chairman Fred Ridley went out of his way to address one of the sensitive issues driving a wedge through the game: painfully slow rounds of golf. “Playing without undue delay, as the rules and the game’s traditions dictate, is an essential skill of golf at all levels,” Ridley said.
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2 months ago | 
advisorstream.com | Lewis Braham |Ron Phillips
By Lewis Braham April 4, 2025 Markets hate uncertainty. Yet the risk tolerance of individual investors varies. Some can tolerate more uncertainty than others. A few can even profit from the volatility that chaos brings. President Donald Trump has proved himself to be an agent of chaos with his aggressive tariffs and attacks on government agencies.
