Month: August 2020

In this screengrab taken from a berniesanders.com webcast, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talks about his plan to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on March 17, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Businesses are being severely impacted, schools are closing temporarily and large events are being postponed as the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across
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By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Managing Editor getty Life transitions can be jarring at any age, but they often pile on top of each other in your 50s and 60s. Transitioning to retirement…to empty-nesterhood…perhaps to a single life…living through a health trauma. Heck, it’s partly why our site is called Next Avenue. Bruce Feiler, author
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about possibly filing early to Avoid potential future rate cuts, determining which income years SSA is using to calculate your benefits and potential effects of part time work while receiving disability benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
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If you have debt, forget spending on things like fancy coffee drinks, says “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary. That’s because paying off debt is “key” to financial success, he says. “If you have student loans, if you have debt, if you have things that you’re paying interest on, you have to pay those off first,” O’Leary
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Goldman Sachs is renewing its push into Wall Street’s digital future. The firm made Mathew McDermott, a managing director who ran the investment bank’s internal funding operations, its new global head of digital assets last month, CNBC has learned exclusively. The appointment means the newest face of blockchain and cryptocurrency on Wall Street isn’t a
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Robert K. Jafek is Principal at Boomerang Capital Partners, successfully financing and developing real estate since 2006.   getty It is well known that the residential real estate market is highly seasonal, with activity and prices following the heat: It warms up in the spring and gets hot in the summer before cooling off in the fall
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Travelers order food in automated self-ordering kiosk at fast-food Burger King restaurant chain. Bundrul Chukrut | LightRocket | Getty Images Restaurant Brands International on Thursday reported that its quarterly revenue plunged 25% as the coronavirus pandemic weighed on same-store sales at Burger King and Tim Hortons. But Popeyes, powered by its popular chicken sandwich, reported same-store
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TOPLINE NPR reported Tuesday that thousands of foreign workers who were in the U.S. on temporary visas erroneously received $1,200 stimulus checks in the error-prone process of distributing financial aid across the country to blunt the coronavirus pandemic’s economic impact. Foreign workers in at least 129 countries have received stimulus payments, according to NPR. Getty
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A Social Security Administration office in San Francisco. Getty Images Washington lawmakers are deciding the financial fates of millions of American families with the next coronavirus stimulus package. But there’s one unintended consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic they have yet to fix: potential reductions to Social Security benefits for one particular cohort of Americans. The
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