Month: December 2022

The Federal Reserve is expected on Wednesday to raise interest rates for the seventh time this year to combat stubborn inflation.  The U.S. central bank will likely approve a 0.5 percentage point hike, a more typical pace compared with the super-size 75 basis point moves at each of the last four meetings. This would push
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The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has announced a student architecture and design challenge for the design of an element for its new Bezos Learning Center. Through this challenge, teams of architecture and design students and early-career architects will be challenged to design an architectural element for the exterior structure that visualizes and communicates
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Finding a luxury gift for everyone on your list isn’t that difficult. However, finding something luxurious and unique is another story. After all, it’s not the cost of the gift so much as the thought behind it. Choosing to give something to someone they wouldn’t typically buy for themselves makes a gift extra meaningful. Here
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Kathrin Ziegler | Digitalvision | Getty Images As inflation has kept prices high in 2022, Social Security beneficiaries may look forward to a record high cost-of-living adjustment in 2023. “Your Social Security benefits will increase by 8.7% in 2023 because of a rise in cost of living,” the Social Security Administration states in the annual
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The penalty for fairly innocent goofs can run into the millions of dollars. Is there any limit to how unpleasant the IRS can be with people who pay all their taxes but don’t fill out the forms correctly? Monica Toth, 82, is a naturalized American whose family escaped the Nazis. The Boston area resident prepared
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U.S. prosecutor Marshall Miller (C), William Nardini (R) and Kristin Mace attend a news conference in Rome February 11, 2014. Tony Gentile | Reuters Banks and other corporations that proactively report possible employee crimes to the government instead of waiting to be discovered will get more lenient terms, according to a Justice Department official. The
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