Alison Southwick

You have questions. We have answers, and advice for straightening out your accounts, financials, fees, mortgages, and more.

It's not just the recency bias talking -- the stock market has gone up in the long term, and will likely continue to do so.

Raising kids is expensive and time-consuming, but these personal-finance pointers will get you well on your way to financial health, no matter where you are in the dadding process.

In celebration of FoolFest, we're bringing three Foolish members on the show to talk about their investing history and lessons.

Listener questions this month ran the gamut of investing and personal finance, and the Fools are happy to help.

Americans have invested trillions of dollars through these tax-advantaged accounts, but some of us aren’t getting our money’s worth.

We’ve got five key takeaways from the long downward slide of a blue chip giant, plus a raft of solid advice from the author of "This is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order.”

Call this episode a prequel, as we dig into the backstory, consider the coming plot twists, and foreshadow how this fight between giant economies and egos is going to hit Americans in the wallet.

Some of these five giants are under fire, and given that they’ve accounted for an outsized share of S&P growth in recent years, every investor needs to keep an eye on them.

Navigating college financial aid can be tricky. "Motley Fool Answers” can help.

The Answers team crowns winners and losers in the world of personal finance and investing.

As usual, our listeners came through with a raft of interesting questions.

And now, they have.

A special guest from the Land Down Under offers the Fool's take on trends we might miss from our seats inside the world’s largest economy.

The basketball superstar is very much an outlier among pro athletes, who have a sad pattern of failing to parlay those big paychecks into lifelong financial security.

The mailbag was so full this month that our hosts had to bring in an extra Fool to help handle them all.

Can the U.S. take a gold? Have some countries been doping their economies? We’ll tell you the score.

You don’t want to be that couple fighting about money all the time, do you?

The modern world is chock-full of things that cause us anxiety, and finances are right near the top of the list of common stressors.

April 17 is closer than you think. But not so close that our listeners aren’t also writing us to ask about other financial matters, too.