Dear Moneyist, My fiancé — or should I say eternal fiancé because he never wants to get married — recently shocked me when he flatly stated that he wants me off the mortgage and deed to our newly purchased waterfront home. We have lived there for a year and pay …
Read More »Outside the Box: What is the secret to aging well?
Here’s the million, or let’s say, billion-dollar question: What is aging well and how do you do it? What’s the secret elixir? There are expert presentations on a Ted Talk playlist: How to Make You Feel Good About Getting Older. And there are droves of self-help books, exercise regimes, healthy …
Read More »Economic Preview: This week we’ll learn the size of the hole the U.S. economy fell into when COVID-19 struck
There are good economic reports, there are bad ones, and in some rate cases there are ugly ones. This week, we get ugly. We will find out how deep a hole the U.S. economy fell into in the second quarter this year when non-essential businesses closed down in many parts …
Read More »How Do You Make an Easy Wishing Well?
Creating The Perfect Wishing Well In 5 Easy Steps You probably remember visiting a wishing well as a child, dropping a coin in, and making that all-important wish. It doesn’t matter whether it comes true or not, it’s fun! The good news is that you can easily recreate this in …
Read More »Key Words: Trump on accused Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘I wish her well’
“ “I wish her well.” ” That was President Donald Trump’s response Tuesday to a reporter’s question about Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in jail awaiting trial on charges that she recruited girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. Speaking at a White House coronavirus briefing for the first time since …
Read More »Is Robinhood making money off those day-trading millennials? Well, yes. That’s kind of the point.
As the twin black swans of the coronavirus pandemic and the historic oil price collapse rocked financial markets early in 2020, opportunities emerged. So did media narratives. One of the most popular: that bored young people, stuck at home with no access to sports or bars or live entertainment, went …
Read More »‘No matter how well you speak, or how educated you are, my blackness will always define me.’ Black graduates on racism in America
In the lead up to and weeks immediately following his graduation, Stephan Lally watched as COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on the country’s black community laid bare racial inequities in health care and economic opportunity. He also watched as thousands of people took to the streets across the country to protest the …
Read More »Coronavirus was devastating Europe’s nursing homes well before the U.S. Here are the lessons they learned
In late March as the coronavirus pandemic spread to the U.S., news of a wave of deaths in Spanish nursing homes caught the attention of David Grabowski, a professor of health policy at Harvard Medical School. Tweeting a March 25 story about a probe into elderly coronavirus victims found dead …
Read More »The Moneyist: I didn’t feel well last month and asked my housekeeper to stay home. I am nervous about having her come back. She asked for ‘unpaid wages.’ What should I do?
Dear Moneyist, My housekeeper would like to receive money while she’s not working. She works for me for 4 hours a month, and I pay her approximately $ 120 cash each month. We pay her well, although she is hardly a full-time worker. In fact, she is barely part time. …
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