Last fall it was Twitter. Before that, it was Facebook. Now it’s Alibaba, the huge Chinese e-commerce company that just became the largest tech IPO in history, after raising $21.8 billion in its initial public offering on September 18…
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A Tale of Two Genders Working For the Same Goal
From the 1950s onward, women’s participation in the work force has grown from less than 35% to a peak of almost 80% in 2007…
Justice Outsmarts Annual Federal Taxpayer Waste of Money for September 30th
A recently published Harvard Study noted that higher than 20% of all government contracts are entered into in the last month of the US fiscal year (September 30th)…
Bond King’s Messy Exit
Financial advisors and the investment community were shocked this past Friday when Bill Gross, sometimes referred to as “the bond king” resigned from Pimco,..
4 Ways to Manage Your Student Debt
A recent bill was proposed by Elizabeth Warren and Suze Orman attempting to tackle the issue of student debt…
What does it take to be in the wealthiest 1%
A recent Study from Pew Research shows that since 2009, except for the highest 1% and lowest 30% where wealth has improved significantly, most groups are less wealthy today…
Cyber-Attacks are no longer the Stuff of Science Fiction!
The news that a Russian Website is showing the millions of credit card information stolen from Home Depot…
Problem with Health Care: We spend Billions Measuring the Wrong Markers
In a Boston Globe (Globe) article dated September 17, 2014, by Lindsay Tanner, the Globe states a finding about waistlines and its ties to obesity, diabetes, cancer and bad health in general…
Maybe the US System is not as Bad As We Think!
Commonwealth Fund recently issued a report that ranked the National Healthcare Systems (NHS) among 11 of the world’s most advanced nations. Where did the U.S. rank in this report? Last…
Retirement Assets Website
In a September 10, 2014, Market Watch website article titled “In retirement savings, the poor get poorer” a new report from the Federal Reserve is discussed. The average retirement account savings rose 10% from $183,400 to $201,300 from 2010 through 2013…
Mystery Holes and Global Warming
No, this is not a blast from the US mission to wipe out ISIL or something from the Ukraine/Russia fighting though that is closer. Rather the above mystery hole which resembles a missile crater and is dotting the Siberian Landscape is now thought to be a consequence of Global Warming…
Picking a Medical Alert System
Despite the infamous and slightly ridiculous “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” commercials, medical alert systems sales are growing fast as the baby boomers age…
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