Motley Fool Staff

If you have kids, you need life insurance, and you need to put money aside for their higher education. What you don't need to do is combine those tasks.

Sometimes borrowing from your retirement account is the best move. For a novice musician, investing in a really good violin is not one of those occasions.

Listener Rod has money in stocks that he'll need to use in a few years. But taking it out now to de-risk means the certainty of a higher tax bite.

Listener Joe is trying to resolve what he sees as a disparity between two popular retirement rules of thumb.

A listener with significant rental property income is hoping to route money into retirement accounts to defer some taxes.

A listener is looking for a better asset than some weakly performing mutual funds.

The 19th-century superstar poet still speaks to the modern mind -- and perhaps surprisingly, to modern finance.

Person-to-person payment apps aren't big moneymakers -- yet.

Square Cash recently surpassed Venmo as the most-downloaded payment app.

The banks are doing a good job of keeping person-to-person payments in their ecosystem.

Venmo has become a major source of PayPal's transaction volume.

Apps like Venmo and Square Cash have filled a big need in the war on cash.

A well-designed game can often provide insights in the real world -- and help you earn real profits.

It doesn't have to be an either/or in your portfolio, but it's a useful thought experiment for investors.

From a centuries-old book of poetry to last week's fantasy football draft, David Gardner's listeners are always on the lookout for inspiration.

We break down some of the biggest opportunities and red flags for the live event platform.

While everyone’s focused on Mychal Kendricks, the Fools are more intrigued by the friend at Goldman Sachs who gave him the tips.

Regardless of where you sit politically, the president’s attacks on internet companies he thinks are unfair to him and to conservatives could have consequences for their businesses.

Though last quarter’s performance was solid, uninspired guidance in its latest report sapped the CRM company's share price.

In just a few years’ time, the company has brought seven competitors under its umbrella.