Federal Report
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“The perils of timing the market," financial adviser Arthur Stein said. “ It’s just extremely hard to do.”
April 22, 2020 -
If your like most federal investors, a not-so-funny-thing happened to your retirement nest egg earlier this year.
April 22, 2020 -
Unless you’ve been a professional hermit for most of your life, the past few weeks have been weird. Mike Causey asked some long-time readers how they are coping.
April 21, 2020 -
Roughly one in five federal employees had worked remotely in 2018, according to newly released data from the Office of Personnel Management. Now telework is the new normal. Will it last?
April 20, 2020 -
Styles and modes vary, but in the federal community telework means work.
April 17, 2020 -
The current world economic situation triggered by the coronavirus pandemic reminds more people of the Great Depression than it does the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
April 16, 2020 -
Along with the coronavirus, a sense of mortality is in the air these days. That means tax attorney and estate planner Tom O’Rourke’s voicemail is full, as clients, sometimes in a panic, check in with him, in case they check out.
April 15, 2020 -
Well-known tax attorney and estate planner Tom O’Rourke tells us what we should be thinking about, sooner rather than later, to make sure we do the smartest thing.
April 15, 2020 -
Although it's too early speculate about numbers, some experts in health insurance have projected that premiums overall for all Americans could rise by 40% percent if not more.
April 14, 2020 -
Agencies are offering short-term details and temporary assignments to current federal employees who are interesting in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
April 13, 2020 -
So many feds are rising to a difficult occasion.
April 10, 2020 -
With the stock market reeling from the impact of the coronavirus who do you feel sorriest for, the 22,432 TSP millionaires or the 5 million-plus smaller investors?
April 09, 2020 -
Agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs are calling on federal retirees to return to government and help with their coronavirus responses as reemployed annuitants. Thinking of joining them? Here's what you need to know.
April 08, 2020 -
The Office of Personnel Management has given the Department of Veterans Affairs authority to rehire retired federal medical professionals.
April 08, 2020 -
Not so long ago in what now looks like the good old days hundreds of Thrift Savings Plan account holders were hoping to be inducted into the Millionaires Club.
April 07, 2020