Dear Quentin, Over the past three years, my wife has spent over $ 50,000 on cosmetic procedures. She never used to be a vain person. It started with a face lift after she turned 40, and now she can’t stop blowing money on everything from Botox and lip fillers to …
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There are advantages to being old. We seniors can leverage the widespread perception that we’re all poor, incapable of decision-making and inept at using technology. I have fun with this. We recently went car shopping. As we left the house, my wife turned and said, “You’re going dressed like that?” “What’s wrong …
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The future of the Tokyo Olympics is in question after a report from The Times claimed that Japan had privately concluded that the games would not take place, citing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic. In recent weeks, Japan has declared a state of emergency and seen rising cases of COVID-19. …
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Olivia Troye, the homeland-security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who served as Pence’s deputy on the White House coronavirus task force and went public last week with the allegation that President Trump never took the pandemic seriously except insofar as it affected his re-election chances, this week found herself …
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The coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over,” according to the head of the World Health Organization, and the worst is still to come, in what was a grim assessment of the state of affairs some six months after the first cases were reported in China. “Six months …
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“ ‘If you don’t have a tail hedge, I suggest not being in the market we’re facing a huge amount of uncertainty.’ ” That’s “Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb offering his view on the risks swirling in the market and a growing lack of clarity …
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It’s no secret that retail investors have been stepping up their participation in the stock market lately, but the degree by which they have outperformed professional investors may be coming into greater focus. A basket of equities that have been eagerly bought by individual investors since the depths of the …
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The House of Representatives, for the first time in its 231-year history, is allowing its members to vote without being physically present on the floor, a move Republicans say is unneeded. The Democratic-run House on Friday evening approved a resolution temporarily changing its rules to allow designated members to cast …
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Dear Moneyist, I work in a ship-building factory, and a member of senior management was exposed to COVID-19. He quarantined for 14 days, but when workers on the factory floor are exposed to the coronavirus, they are told to return to work only after a few days. Despite the public-health …
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