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Amounts Parents Spend on Their Adult Kids Continues to Rise
Parents are spending more than ever on their adult kids, with the total now at $500 billion a year. It’s nice to be able to do this, but…
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ActiveRobert Paulsen has spent more than a decade writing about the financial choices people make in everyday life. His work covers income, spending, saving, debt and long-term goals, with close attention to the circumstances that can make the same advice sensible for one household and unsuitable for another.
Personal finance is often reduced to slogans: spend less, save more, avoid debt, follow a fixed rule. Robert looks beyond those formulas. He examines the trade-offs behind a decision, the priorities it serves and the costs or constraints that may not be obvious at first glance.
At MarketReview, his articles are intended to help readers organise choices around their own needs rather than an idealised financial plan. He does not treat good personal finance writing as a list of instructions; he treats it as a way to make the reasoning behind competing options clearer.
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