Retirement, health insurance, financial institutions up at Currency site

Currency, a new personal finance site sponsored by American Express, has just gone live with several articles by me.

On retirement

The main article is How Much Money Will You Need to Retire?

It appears along with sidebars:

Early Retirement: Should You Really Try?

Will You Get Your Social Security? (Which includes an interesting infographic on sources of income for seniors, which look great in the aggregate, but start looking pretty shaky once you get to the level of the individual.)

On health insurance

The main article is How Freelancers Can Budget for Health Insurance.

It appears along with sidebars:

Getting Your Own Affordable Health Coverage

Being Uninsured: Worth the Risk? (The problem for going without insurance is no longer just the risk: it also means you don’t get the negotiated rates.)

On financial institutions

The main article is Should You Put Your Money in an Alternative Financial Institution?

It appears along with sidebars:

Public Programs for People Without Banks

Comparing Banks, Credit Unions, and Alternative-Finance Institutions. (If you have basic financial skills—keeping and balancing a check register—you can use a bank or credit union cheaply enough. But if you don’t—and especially if you don’t have a regular paycheck to be direct-deposited, or enough money to keep a minimum balance—then the new alternative financial institutions may make some sense.)

You may have noticed my posting on Wise Bread was a bit sparse lately. Part of the reason is that I was writing all of those. Enjoy!