Month: August 2021

Elon Musk’s SpaceX revealed new details about plans for the next-generation of satellites in its Starlink internet system in federal filings on Wednesday, including that the company intends to use its massive Starship rocket as the primary vehicle to deliver the spacecraft to orbit. SpaceX filed an amendment with the Federal Communications Commission that included
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Image Source | Getty Images Many Americans have trouble covering their costs of living with income solely from Social Security. Now, a bill has been reintroduced in Congress aimed at reducing the risk that older Americans, women and people of color will live in poverty despite receiving their monthly checks. The proposal, called the Social
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Today’s column addresses questions about whether cost of living allowances are applied to retirement benefits at 70 after receiving spousal benefits, taking divorced spousal benefits after disability benefits and the availability of survivor’s benefits after taking spousal benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic
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The rental market, which slumped during the pandemic, has snapped back quicker than many economists predicted. A strong and widespread recovery of rents has pushed prices beyond where they would have been had the coronavirus pandemic never occurred, according to Zillow’s latest market report. Although home appreciation again broke records in July, there are signs of
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In this article KSS People shop at Kohl’s department store amid the coronavirus outbreak on September 5, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Liu Guanguan | China News Service | Getty Images Shares of Kohl’s fell more than 3% in premarket trading Thursday despite reporting second-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations and raising its forecast for
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Beijing office towers, including Alibaba’s, are illuminated with Chinese characters reading ‘blessing to China’ to celebrate National Day in October 2020. Zang Zhihao | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — American investors’ shock at an ongoing regulatory crackdown in China points to a fundamental difference between the two countries that many didn’t seem
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@Sabi32 | Twenty20 One in 3 American families couldn’t handle a mid-sized financial emergency before the pandemic, according to a report from the Stanford Center on Longevity and the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center. Roughly 27% of American families couldn’t cover an unexpected $2,000 expense within a month, and 33% were struggling to make ends
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Brothers91 | E+ | Getty Images About 36 million American families have received a second batch of monthly child tax credit payments worth about $15 billion. Yet a survey from personal finance website MagnifyMoney finds that many Americans are still confused about how the payments work. Those who were most likely to lack clarity were
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The United States Tax Court is one of the most accessible courts in the federal system, maybe even overall. Well here is some good news and bad news about the Tax Court. The bad news is that it is absolutely swamped by a flood of petitions. The good news ? Well that’s the good news too. It all depends
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