Commentary
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Hats off to a nation that values inventors, values the idea of people benefitting from their own ideas.
June 19, 2018 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, details how GSA’s customers are choosing acquisition vehicles with lower fees.
June 19, 2018 -
Causey says President Donald Trump is keeping his promises to "drain the swamp" with a crackdown on federal unions, and aims to make the federal retirement plan more costly for workers and less valuable for retirees.
June 19, 2018 -
Obits can help you figure out how much money you are going to need for the years, maybe decades, after your regular paycheck stops. But your urge to live, have fun, travel, etc. continues.
June 18, 2018 -
But even if the ACA disappeared, the government would still have a giant footprint in health and disease research. The National Institutes of Health's annual budget and what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pays out for kidney dialysis both equal about $35 billion.
June 15, 2018 -
The Senate Armed Services Committee's recent markup of the NDAA contains several provisions that are of interest to federal workers, including some related to chief human capital officers and security clearances.
June 15, 2018 -
Every day, we at Federal News Radio get calls or emails from readers and listeners who want to know the latest, the cost and the timetable for action regarding retirement changes. But we can't predict what’s going to happen,
June 15, 2018 -
The Trump administration wants to make the federal retirement plan more costly to workers and less valuable to retirees. But officials could probably "drain the swamp" of thousands of bureaucrats if they made the changes effective later rather than sooner.
June 14, 2018 -
When financial times get tough and a bull market rears its ugly head, many Thrift Savings Plan investors head for the safety of the bond index F Fund or, more likely, the super-safe never has a bad day G Fund.
June 13, 2018 -
When financial times get tough and a bear market rears its ugly head many Thrift Savings Plan investors head for the safety of the bond index F Fund or, more likely, the super-safe never has a bad day G-fund.
June 12, 2018 -
Stephen Zelcer, a financial advisor for federal employees, explains how the changes to the TSP in 2019 will impact you and what you should keep in mind.
June 12, 2018 -
The number of federal/postal workers with Thrift Savings Plan accounts worth at least $1 million jumped nearly 600 percent between April 2016 and April 2018. The value of the biggest account grew by nearly 30 percent in that time.
June 12, 2018 -
As of April 3, the number of federal and postal workers and retirees with million-dollar-plus Thrift Savings Plan accounts had grown to 23,098.
June 11, 2018 -
When most people focus on millionaires in government they are talking about a relatively small number of super-rich political appointees. But there is a larger group who did it by saving and investing in the Thrift Savings Plan.
June 08, 2018 -
Rich Beutel, founder Cyrrus Analytics and a former House staff member, explains the steps for agencies and Congress to make data more actionable.
June 07, 2018