Pennsylvania state capitol building John Greim/LightRocket | Getty Images It is not an easy time to be the treasurer of Pennsylvania. Joseph Torsella, a Democrat elected treasurer in 2016, has to cope with a simple fact of life: age. His politically important swing state has the sixth largest economy in the nation — but it
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Martin Barraud | Getty Images Knowing your net worth isn’t just for the 1%. Even if you don’t fly in first class or summer in the Hamptons, this simple equation is an important tool that says a lot about your financial health. Still, most people don’t bother to calculate it. That’s a mistake. “It’s the
krisanapong detraphiphat | Moment | Getty Images Once derided on the cover of Time magazine as the “Me Me Me Generation,” millennials have, in fact, become the “Owe Owe Owe Generation.” This group originally showed a healthy aversion to credit card debt. From 2008 to 2012, only 41% of those in their 20s had a
The wealth tax proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren has sparked a fierce — and increasingly personal — debate between the party’s traditional academic elite and the darlings of the new left. Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and longtime economic guru of the Democratic party, published an op-ed in the Washington Post in April saying
Christie’s A 3,300-year-old sculpture of Tutankhamen’s head sold for almost $6 million at auction, defying calls from Egyptian authorities for the artifact to be returned to its native country. Auction house Christie’s said the “rare, beautiful and important work” achieved a price of £4,746,250 ($5,968,058) in London on Thursday, where it was purchased by an