This is not your father’s Cold War. In the Eisenhower-Khrushchev era, the West, Russia and China lived in separate economic spaces. Nuclear weapons posed limited danger, because neither the United States nor Russia could strike the other without risking annihilation. …
I am seeing opinion pieces on how heavy sanctions against Russia represent the first economic war in history. It isn’t. It may be another “world war” that is beginning with the imposition of economic sanctions. It is simply too soon …
Many technology stocks have gotten crushed in the high-inflation, rising-interest-rate environment of 2022. Some may have further to fall. Investors with shorter-term horizons may wish to steer clear of more volatile, innovative companies, despite outperformance during the pandemic. Those include …
On April 13, Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter TWTR for $54.20 a share. Twitter’s stock closed at $45.08 (17% below Musk’s takeout offer price) on April 14, making it clear that many investors believe the deal won’t …
The owner of a Florida addiction treatment facility has been convicted of running a $58 million insurance fraud scheme involving excessive drug testing and paying kickbacks to well-insured patients to come to her center. Carie Lyn Beetle, 44, and a …
Dear Quentin, It seems like I have been paying my Parent PLUS Loan forever. Someone told me that when my husband passed away, even though we were divorced at the time, I wouldn’t have to keep paying the loan. Please …
I am in my late 60s and need to find another place to retire. I am in the beginning stages of blindness and no longer drive, so am very dependent upon public transport and shopping, particularly grocery shopping, being within …
I have not seen anyone address student-loan debt for people over 70 years of age. I am a 74-year-old retired speech-language pathologist with a student-loan debt of $200,000. I’m on a fixed income, and the weight of this debt is crushing …
A Twitter Inc. shareholder is suing Elon Musk, claiming he and others suffered financial losses because of the billionaire’s delay in disclosing his stake in the social-media company. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Southern District of New York, …
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. –Want to lock in a greater-than-8% return with U.S. Treasurys over the next 12 months? Of course you would, especially given the higher-than-expected inflation numbers reported this week, with the Consumer Price Index rising 8.5% over the …
The nation’s top consumer regulator announced Tuesday that is filing a lawsuit against consumer credit reporting company TransUnion and one of its top executives for violating a 2017 law enforcement order that blocked the company from engaging in deceptive marketing …
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine, most observers predicted the conflict would end quickly with a Russian flag flying over Kyiv. Just as projections about the conflict have been exaggerated, so too are those forecasting the …
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