August 2023

This time it’s in the latest Charles Schwab Retirement Survey. Among 1,000 people surveyed, the average respondent figured he or she needed to save $1.8 million to retire. (That figure is up from $1.7 million in the same survey a year earlier.)Touchingly, 86% also told Schwab they were either “somewhat”…

In February I got the news that my job was being eliminated as part of the mass IT layoffs this year. After 23 years in corporate I’m now unemployed and looking. I took time to hit reset, get my home together and check off my personal Honey Do list (I’m…

Suicide rates in the U.S. rose to their highest level ever last year, with the oldest adults having the high rates of suicide among any age group, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A record 49,449 Americans took their own lives in 2022, up 2.6%…

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Opinion: You save; your partner spends. Don't let money doom your relationship. - MarketWatch ]]> ]]> Object.keys(e[t]||{}),executeQueue(e){try{t[e]&&t[e].forEach((e=>this.execute(...e))),delete t[e]}catch(e){console.error(e)}},execute(){var[t,i,r,n]=arguments,s=e[t][i],u=e=>e,c=[];return"function"!=typeof s?s:(r&&("function"==typeof r?(u=r,n&&Array.isArray(n)&&(c=n)):Array.isArray(r)&&(c=r)),u(s.apply(null,c)))},__reset(){var i=e=>Object.keys(e).forEach((t=>delete e[t]));i(e),i(t)},hasSubscription(e){return this.getSubscribedElements().indexOf(e)>-1},hasSubscribedFunction(e,t){return this.getSubscribedFunctions(e).indexOf(t)>-1},uniqueFucntionsUnderSubscription(t,i){const{__ace:r=(()=>({}))}=window;let n={};return Object.keys(i).forEach((s=>{e[t][s]?r("log","log",[{type:"warning",initiator:"page",message:"You are trying to subscribe the function "+s+" under the "+t+" namespace again. Use another name."}]):n[s]=i[s]})),n},addSubscription(t,i){if(this.hasSubscription(t)){const r=this.uniqueFucntionsUnderSubscription(t,i);e[t]={...e[t],...r}}else e[t]=i;return e},subscribe(t,i,r){if(r)return e[t]=i,e;if(!i||"object"!=typeof i)throw new Error("Missing third parameter.…

Diana Ramos works in the frozen meat locker of a local market in Stamford, Texas, where she’s on her feet moving around in the cold five days a week. A single mother, Ramos’s job, taking meat in and out of the freezer, allows her to feed her two children and…

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The U.S. economy has demonstrated amazing flexibility and resiliency since the pandemic recovery cycle began three years ago. In the second quarter of 2023, real growth expanded by 2.4%, while business output expanded by 2.7%. Meanwhile, business productivity jumped by 3.7% and unit-labor costs rose a subdued 1.6%. At the…

Investors were laser-focused on AI for tech earnings in the second quarter on expectations that companies including Microsoft Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. might be benefiting as much as Nvidia Corp. has.Nvidia NVDA, -3.62%, which has a staggered fiscal-year in which it reports earnings one month after most other…