Month: January 2022

Hannah Kohr made a career change after quitting her job during the “Great Resignation.” Courtesy: Hannah Kohr Hannah Kohr started reassessing her career as a library assistant shortly after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. She had spent the majority of her time at the Cleveland Public Library helping families with basic needs such as food, housing
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Consumers linger outside a Haikou duty free shop at Riyue Square, Haikou City, Hainan Province, China, on September 2, 2021. Wang Jianfeng | Future Publishing | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese consumers are spending more on luxury goods at home, even if they can’t easily travel abroad due to pandemic-related restrictions, consultancy Bain & Company
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Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about whether a new application is necessary to receive retirement benefits after taking spousal benefits, taking early survivor’s benefits before retirement benefits and when Social Security considers you to be 70. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security
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There was a time when I thought the optimal goal of financial planning was to collect vast amounts of information, boil all of that information down to an extensive list of assumptions and finely-tuned projections, and then to “click a button” and calculate precisely what a client should do based on those assumptions.  I thought
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Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaking at a re-nomination hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, on January 11, 2022, in Washington, DC. Pool / Getty The Federal Reserve on Thursday released its long-awaited study of a digital dollar, exploring the pros and cons of the much-debated issue and soliciting public
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