Veronica Dagher
Personal Finance Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
WSJ Personal Finance Reporter; TV & Podcast Guest; Author: @WSJ’s Resilience: How 20 Ambitious Women Used Obstacles To Fuel Their Success; Proud Wife & Mom
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wsj.com | Veronica Dagher |Joe Pinsker |Oyin Adedoyin
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wsj.com | Veronica Dagher |Anne Tergesen
After accounting for mortgage payments, their home equity—the portion of their home they own outright—grew by about $525,000. But there was another surprise: Their property taxes have increased by more than 50% since the purchase after multiple reassessments, to nearly $21,000 annually. They know this is a fortunate problem to have, especially since they can still pay their bills. But the higher property taxes have pushed them to trim discretionary spending.
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flipboard.com | Veronica Dagher |Anne Tergesen
4 hours agoWith Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition. Over the weekend, Meta dropped two new Llama 4 models: a smaller model named Scout, and Maverick, a mid-size model that the company claims can beat GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash “across a broad …
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elpasoinc.com | Joe Pinsker |Veronica Dagher
President Trump’s auto tariffs are about to give another boost to car prices that have already surged over the past four years. That will be an additional burden on household budgets. One common but rough financial guideline is that the monthly payment on an auto loan should be no more than 10% of one’s take-home pay. But even the average used-car payment is right around that threshold for an average American, and a new-car payment is already beyond it.
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elpasoinc.com | Anne Tergesen |Veronica Dagher
Ask people when they expect to retire and they are likely to say age 65. But that is not how it usually plays out. Some stay at their jobs into their 70s and 80s, and many hang it up far earlier. About one in five retirees reported leaving a career at age 55 or younger, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, below the median retirement age of 62. Early retirement doesn’t look much like the polished social-media posts made by “financial independence, retire early” influencers.
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