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Home Warranties: Wise Purchase or Not?
If you have bought or sold a home in the last few years using the services of a real estate agent, either the buyer’s or seller’s agent probably included a home warranty in the transaction.
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The Cost of Waiting
The median retirement portfolio account balance for persons age 56-61 is just $25,000—which is obviously not enough for a healthy retirement, and suggests that many Americans followed less-than-healthy savings habits.
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Mega Cash Returns
There wasn’t a lot of fanfare when Apple Computer announced that it would commit $100 billion of the excess cash it had laying around to buying back its own shares.
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Flattening Curve
The best indicator of a future recession is not perfect, and doesn’t provide an exact time or date, but economists have found that an inverted yield curve can be a warning sign of a downturn to come.
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Healthy Earnings – For Now
Professional investors are constantly trying to figure out whether the U.S. economy is healthy or sliding toward a recession.
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The Slack in the Labor Market
The U.S. unemployment rate has been dropping steadily ever since it reached 10% during the awful depth of the Great Recession; the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that today only 4.1% of Americans are out of work, the lowest rate in nearly two decades.
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The Personal Trainer On Your Wrist
A new kind of fitness app is giving us a glimpse of a future where your lifestyle can be monitored in real time for its impact on your health and longevity.
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Avoid These 10 Tax Return Mistakes That Can Trigger an Audit
Quietly, without a lot of fanfare, the U.S. national debt moved past $20 trillion last September 8. On March 15, it exceeded $21 trillion.
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Cause for Alarm?
Quietly, without a lot of fanfare, the U.S. national debt moved past $20 trillion last September 8. On March 15, it exceeded $21 trillion.
