A recent article penned by Jeff Sommer for The New York Times noted that in 1953, when How to Marry a A million dollars used to mean something not too long ago. When I was growing up it meant basically what $8.7 million means today.
When pundits debate military options for any of the many U.S. foreign interventions, most of them buy into some version of the "America-as-World-Policeman" approach to foreign policy.
One set of investors has managed to catapult themselves to near-demigod status in recent years, with revelers hanging on their every word. They even have their own TV shows. Yet, with one simple investment, you could make double what they do. Here's
Your retirement dreams have never been in a more perilous situation, at least not in the memory of anyone alive today. Rising taxes and health care costs, diminishing benefits and next to nothing yields have forced seniors and those saving for retire
For many primary gold producers, Q213 was a breathtakingly bad quarter. It wasn't so much the massive drop in earnings many reported—those had been, for the most part, expected—but the so-called "impairment charges" announced.
...food bearing plants are not legal in residential zoned areas. She had to remove her tangerine tree when she did a remodel on her house. The city inspector made her remove it before he would approve the remodel.
Whether we work during retirement or not should be our own choice, not the result of circumstances beyond our control. Unfortunately as many seniors approach retirement age they find they just don’t have that option, and must keep slogging at their d