Sep 18 Recommendation No. 1 for a secure retirement: “age in place” Owning a home in which you can "age in place" carries many financial benefits, not the least of which is saving on exorbitant nursing home costs. Photo courtesy of flickr user WriteAwayPR. Continue reading
Sep 18 Decoding Bernanke and the latest Fed decision Watch the livestream here. Here's a quick and early roundup of some of the thinking behind today's decision and its impact as explained by Neil Irwin from his liveblog of the Ben Bernanke press conference. Neil… Continue reading
Sep 18 WATCH: Bernanke on Fed announcement .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The Federal Open Markets Committee… Continue reading
Sep 18 AP: Fed delays bond tapering, wants to see more data BREAKING: Fed delays bond tapering, wants to see more data: http://t.co/bpW6nKMyLm -AB— The Associated Press (@AP) September 18, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 18 Recommendation No. 1 for a Secure Retirement: “Age in Place” By Lew Mandell Owning a home in which you can "age in place" carries many financial benefits. Photo courtesy of flickr user WriteAwayPR. Lew Mandell, the author of ""What To Do When I Get Stupid: A Radically Safe Approach… Continue reading
Sep 17 Women still earned 77 cents to a man’s dollar in 2012 Along with disappointing poverty line numbers, Tuesday's Census report shows that women on average still make significantly less than men. The average income in 2012 for a man was $49, 398 and for a woman $37,791. "… Continue reading
Sep 17 Since 2006, the faster-than-human stock market has hidden 18,000 spikes and crashes Highspeed, online trading happens so fast that we, mere humans, can't keep up with what's going on -- and there's a lot that's been going on. That's what a group of scientists concluded after researching the complex systems behind market… Continue reading
Sep 17 Census reports median household income, poverty level steady in 2012 Dominick Aldridga (8) stands with members of his family at a distribution point by the Food Bank of the Southern Tier Mobile Food Pantry on June 19, 2012 in Deposit, New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images. The U.S. Census Bureau… Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Henry Paulson Wishes He Had Today’s Regulatory Tools During His Treasury Tenure Henry Paulson Wishes He Had Today's Regulatory Tools During His Treasury Tenure… Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch With Summers Out of the Running, Who Will Be Tapped to Succeed Bernanke? With Summers Out of the Running, Who WIll Be Tapped to Succeed Bernanke?… Continue watching