Dear Moneyist, My late husband had not seen his son in over 30 years. He and his son’s mother decided on her receiving a larger share of assets in lieu of child support. He did see his son a few times a year for the next several years, but contact …
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The stock market will be feeling the impact of COVID-19 for decades to come. That’s because the pandemic is causing the U.S. birth rate to fall. A report from the Brookings Institution, predicts between 300,000 and 500,000 fewer births in 2021, calling it the “Covid Baby Bust.” You have plenty …
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The average U.S. investor must be even higher than the stock market. What else can explain the results of a new survey, which found that, among a sample of 1,500 people here in the U.S. who manage their portfolios, the average person expected the stock market to generate sky-high returns …
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In 2014 I randomly happened upon the practice of oil-pulling. I was curious about it and gave it a try. Turns out I liked it so much I wrote a blog post about it. Four months later, I was still oil-pulling daily, and I wrote an update about it. Fast …
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British Airways will cut up to 12,000 jobs as the airline’s owner warned the coronavirus recovery will take “several years.” BA parent International Consolidated Airlines Group IAG, -3.30% (IAG) said it had launched a restructuring and redundancy program due to the impact of the pandemic and the expectation that the …
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“ ‘It wasn’t October 1987, but it was an imitation… [and the financial crisis] was much more scary, by far, than anything that happened [on Monday].’ ” That’s Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, +1.22% BRK.B, +1.48% boss Warren Buffett putting the market volatility — which he described as a “one-two punch” of …
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The numbers: American manufacturers began to feel the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic toward the end of March as new orders and employment fell to the lowest level since the end of the 2007-2009 Great Recession, a new survey of executives showed. The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing …
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Cryptocurrencies were not immune to the coronavirus-related selloff on Wall Street on Thursday, as the price of bitcoin plummeted 26%, its worst daily selloff in seven years. Bitcoin BTCUSD, -3.76% was recently trading below $ 5,700, as the world’s largest digital currency by market cap has lost nearly a …
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Dear Moneyist, I am 71 and have been married for 27 years. My wife is 65. We hooked up one night and later on in the dating cycle when sex was imminent I asked if we needed to use birth control. She said it wasn’t needed as she was infertile …
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