The cost to keep a roof over your family’s head has increased at the fastest pace in decades, putting serious pressure on Americans’ wallets. The shelter component of the Consumer Price Index increased 0.5% between February and March, in line …
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. …
A colleague was looking into doing a project on Social Security’s Disability Insurance (DI) program, so it forced me to take a look. If you listened to conversations on DI, you would get the impression that the problem is out …
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 …
Experience may be the best teacher in other walks of life, but not when it comes to retirement investing. In fact, according to a just-released study, experience counts for surprisingly little. When it comes to a working knowledge of finance, …
This gives a whole new meaning to the idea of washing money. A New York City man has been charged with allegedly running a network of illegal bitcoin ATMs in laundromats aimed at customers involved in criminal activities looking to …
Today’s home buyers could be in for a shock when the tax man comes calling. In 2021, around $328 billion in property taxes were imposed on single-family homes across the country, according to a new report from real-estate analytics company …
Tesla TSLA, -3.66% and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has overtaken Amazon AMZN, -2.47% founder Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world. According to the latest Forbes billionaires list, Musk is the new No. 1, with a net worth …
The American Society on Aging’s (ASA) massive annual conference typically focuses on themes like the health or vitality of older adults. But this year’s On Aging meeting in New Orleans (the group’s first in-person confab in three years) had a …
The White House will be hoppin’ on Monday, when President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden host for the first Easter Egg Roll in two years. It’s been a longstanding Easter tradition since 1878 for the White House to …