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Saving for retirement can be hard. But it doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, the rules for managing your personal finances and maximizing your chances of a decent retirement can quite literally ...

Think managing your finances has to be complicated? Wonkblog contributor (and UC Chicago social scientist) Harold Pollack doesn't. After a talk with personal finance expert Helaine Olen, Pollack ...

There are countless personal finance books, blogs and articles that offer advice on investing, savings, retirement and taxes. You could read all those books. Or, you can listen to this University of ...

A couple of years ago, University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack did an online video chat with personal finance writer Helaine Olen. The topic was how regular people get steered into bad ...

Harold Pollack, a professor of public policy at the University of Chicago, generated a good deal of buzz a few years ago by scratching out "all the financial advice you'll ever need" on a 4x6 index ...