Jason Kephart, a senior principal with Morningstar’s manager research team, discusses why target-date funds make ideal IRA investments.

It’s an unavoidable topic this time of year – taxes.  However, there is more to tax season than just trying to file them.  This is also a good time to think about your retirement – and come up with a plan that will have you paying the least amount of taxes when you start withdrawing from your retirement accounts.

Old 401(k)s are a little like the old clothes in the back of your closet.

Understand what your retirement means in terms of money

You’ve probably got one or two financial jobs on your to-do list that you were too busy to get to or perceived as boring administrative work.

As a person who writes about investing for a living, it’s helpful (if humbling) to take a hard look at my own decisions from time to time.

Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceutical companies to knock down the list prices for 10 of Medicare’s costliest drugs.

The IRS says it expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes than previously anticipated using funding provided to the agency by the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.

A business group that advocates for clean energy estimates that 403,000 jobs will be created by the 210 major energy projects announced since the Inflation Reduction Act took effect in mid-2022.

Even President Joe Biden has some regrets about the name of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Norwegian battery startup Freyr is planning its next factory in an Atlanta suburb because a new U.S. clean energy law offers generous tax credits for local production.

European Union leaders and member nations are putting forward moves to ensure the EU would not be left behind by the United States in the green industry race.

The day started with war spreading across Ukraine, Wall Street running for the hills, and yet somehow, during the day, the bulls rampage, and by the end of the day, the market stormed back.

We have good retirement savings news for you in this edition of Money Monday.

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The goal, part of the Russian playbook for decades, was to sow chaos by posting content on both sides of the racial divide. Indeed, no single group of Americans was targeted by IRA information operatives more than African-Americans, concluded a report from the Senate intelligence committee. They fear the Trump administration's decision to limit what it tells Congress and by extension the American people about election threats will allow the propaganda to spread. The intelligence statement did not offer specifics about what tactics Russia is using, but the past provides important clues. What people need to be looking for is stuff that is seemingly trying to get a rise out of them, Jankowicz said.