Classic budgeting rules don’t work anymore — even if your household makes $100,000. Spending guidelines designed to put diligent consumers in a solid financial position may not set them up to succeed in today’s economy Spending rules may make sense on their own, but when put together, they don’t account for the full reality of modern household needs. via There are many budgeting rules of thumb designed to put diligent consumers in a solid financial position. But in today’s economy, those rules may not actually set a household up to succeed.
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Venessa Wong is a personal finance reporter for MarketWatch based in New York City. She writes about family finances, young investors and wealth building. Venessa previously worked at BuzzFeed News and Bloomberg, and is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and Middlebury College.
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