Photocredit: Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP Sometimes it’s a hard thing to swallow when you realize that a personal icon has failed to maintain the standards you set for them. Lance Armstrong, whose career I followed with admiration, conquered testicular cancer and went on to win the Tour de France seven times. He would go on to inspire
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America is trying to turn China into another Japan. When it comes to trade relations between the two sides, that is. Washington wants to be in control of US-China trade. The same way it wanted to be in control of the US-Japan trade back in the 1980s. That’s has been obvious from the very beginning
By Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Next Avenue Contributor United Income, a financial planning advisory service, just released an important study called, “The Retirement Solution Hiding In Plain Sight.” Using government data and proprietary software, it calculates how much money retirees have lost, and are losing, by making mistakes about when to start claiming Social Security benefits. United
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses how spousal benefits are determined, automatic payments of Medicare premiums after filing, whether to file for and suspend a retirement benefit or file a restricted application for spousal benefits
Reits touchscreen is shown by businesswoman. Getty In a recent research paper, Thomas Bohjalian, Head of U.S. Real Estate and Senior Portfolio Manager at Cohen & Steers explains said that “REITs have proven resilient amid escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China, even delivering a slight gain in the U.S.” He went on to