As I’ve written in the past, you can’t rely on Social Security to provide accurate information on your options. In my experience, over half of what Social Security staff tell people is either flat out wrong, incomplete, or misleading. Also, as I’ve described in prior columns, Social Security is actively engaged in different ways to
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As medicine, science, and the law continue to develop, lawsuits for wrongful birth and wrongful life are increasingly being recognized. Wrongful birth actions are brought by parents to recover for the birth of an unhealthy child. The parents’ right to recover is based on the defendant’s negligent deprivation of their right to not conceive the
A protester wears a T-shirt in support of Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who is part of a group of Democrats looking to beat Trump in 2020. Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg © 2016 Bloomberg Finance LP If you’re a rich Democrat, you wake up each day with self-loathing, wondering how you can make the world
For three decades, Paul Aris has been a financial and wealth management advisor. Janney Montgomery Scott For decades, I have worked in or with financial institutions, especially banks, identifying risks and finding ways to measure and mitigate them. Since early last year I have been advising my clients, that enough macro and credit data lead
The market plunge in May shocked the bulls. By many measures, it was the most severe decline this year and even over the past several years. On April 30, when bullish sentiment in the media was very high right after the eventual top, we wrote, “We would increase exposure on the short side.” The next