Many investors are bracing for a more-volatile stock market this year as interest rates, inflation, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, oil and supply-chain bottlenecks continue to cause uncertainty....
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Here Are 3 Things 401(k) Millionaires Should Consider Before Retiring Early
Martinmark/Dreamstime Text size For the record number of 401(k) millionaires minted during the pandemic, retirement may be tempting but the market volatility late last year offers a lesson: Paper weal...
Internet Shut Down! Kazakhstan’s Political Crisis Surges Soon After Bitcoin Mining Goes Offline
A summary of the protests included the Central Asian company over the last week. The show – “The Breakdown” contained NLW episodes, and it fits out a basic primer on the surging political crisis in Ka...
I’m a 60 and took out student loans for my child. I owe $36K. What should I do?
Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I’m a U.S. Army veteran, and I’ve been paying the loans I took out to send my child to college, but the interest was crushing from day one. I’m 60 and I don’t know i...
I’m 68, my husband is terminally ill, and his $3 million estate will go to his son. I want to spend the rest of my days traveling – will I have enough money?
Please help me. I am a 68-year-old woman married 17 years to the love of my life. Our finances have always been separate, and I signed a prenuptial acknowledging that his son will inherit his estate h...
How Many Years Could Elizabeth Holmes Face in Prison? Decades, in Theory
Elizabeth Holmes’s potential prison term for defrauding investors, like her company’s blood-testing technology, will likely fall short of what is advertised, according to an analysis of federal data b...
New Polls On January 6 (Part II) And Political Violence
In my last Forbes column, I reviewed some of the major findings from new polls conducted in anticipation of the first anniversary of the events of January 6 at the US Capitol. In this column, I dig a ...
Three signs you’re ready to retire
Many people don’t have much choice about when they retire. Illness, job loss or caretaking responsibilities push them out of the labor force, ready or not. But some people have the opposite problem: T...
20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58%
There are plenty of arguments for why the bull market for U.S. stocks will continue in 2022. But investors’ focus appears to have shifted recently in favor of value stocks, rather than the growth stoc...
Moderna Shipped 800 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Doses in 2021
Text size Syringes with Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images Moderna said in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that it had shipped approximately 800 million doses of its Covi...
Trump-Appointed Chairman’s Resignation Hands Control of FDIC to Democrats
WASHINGTON— Jelena McWilliams’s decision to resign as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. paves the way for Democrats to gain control of the agency’s agenda in the coming weeks, potentiall...
4 simple things to do with your money now, so you start 2022 off right
Getty Images Need a kick-start to your financial New Year’s resolutions? There’s no need to make it complicated, says Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, author of the upcoming personal finance guide book “Fin...
The Warren-Biden Bank Heist – WSJ
Elizabeth Warren finally got her woman—that is, the Senator and her many acolytes in the Biden Administration have succeeded in ousting Jelena McWilliams as chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
How to help your parents organize their finances
Like many baby boomers, my wife and I have watched our parents go from total independence to assisted living to death. We’ve been thankful that, at key moments, they made the difficult decisions thems...
Weekend reads: Your money and how to invest in 2022
Happy New Year! As 2021 ends, we once again hope for the new year will bring a pandemic recovery. Here are some looks ahead at what may affect financial markets, companies and even you in 2022. Turn a...
Apple Stays on Top for Phone Sales in China
Apple Inc. secured the top spot for phone sales in China for a second straight month in November, according to market research data, driven by the success of the iPhone 13 series. The Cupertino, Calif...
Auto Stocks Have Revved Up on EV Ambitions. Here’s Where They Go Next.
Who needs parody cryptocurrency when car stocks are this exciting? Ford Motor , General Motors , Tesla , and Rivian Automotive each had price swings of more than 10% during the first trading week of t...