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Though there’s never a wrong time to get your finances in order, a new year is the perfect excuse to take a deep look at your relationship with money.

Whether you’re just starting out in your career or you’re nearing retirement, below is The Times’s best financial advice from this year on earning and saving more money and, more important, deciding what to do with all of it.