"Burn rate" refers to how much cash a company consumes in a certain period, commonly monthly, to cover all of their expenses. Most commonly, it's used to discuss companies that are unprofitable and ...

You check your bank balance, do a mental run-rate calculation, and realize you’ve got maybe eight months of oxygen left. Investors keep asking about your “burn,” but the term still feels abstract, a ...

The answer you arrive at is your personal “burn rate,” and it is a calculation that hundreds of thousands of federal workers are now confronting. So are more private-sector employees as the job market ...