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Opinion: What if You Die First? 10 Important Financial Issues for Married People

August 20, 2021 Alyssa Comments Off

Marketwatch.com: If you’re married, it’s almost certain that one of you will outlive the other—perhaps by many years. What are the financial implications? Here are 10 issues to keep in mind: 1. Social Security. For a […]

Investing

Twitter Shares Soar More Than 21% After Elon Musk Takes 9% Stake In Social Media Company

CNBC: Musk owns 73,486,938 shares of Twitter, which represents a 9.2% passive stake in the company, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission 13G filing released Monday.The stake is worth [...]
Gold

Venezuelans Break Off Flakes of Gold to Pay for Meals, Haircuts

Bloomberg.com: To fathom the magnitude of Venezuela’s financial collapse, travel southeast from Caracas, past the oil fields and over the Orinoco River, and head deep into the savanna that blankets one [...]
Housing Market

Home Prices Reach Yet a New Record High, Forcing Some Buyers To Just Give Up

Realtor.com: Home prices nationwide have just broken yet another record, with the national median listing price soaring to $405,000 for the first time ever, according to a recent Realtor.com® report. [...]
Federal Reserve

Cash Flood Drives Use of Fed Reverse Repo to Record $1 Trillion

Bloomberg: An overabundance of cash in U.S. interest-rate markets has for the first time ever pushed the amount that investors are parking at a major central bank facility to more [...]
Economy

Median U.S. Household Income Rises 6.8% to $68,700 in 2019, Poverty Rate Falls For Fifth Year

USA Today: Americans’ incomes rose sharply last year and fewer people were living in poverty but a growing number went without health insurance for the second straight year. The numbers [...]
Housing Market

Foreclosures Are Surging Now That Covid Mortgage Bailouts Are Ending, But They’re Still At Low Levels

CNBC.com: Pandemic-related mortgage bailouts are ending, and foreclosures are now rising.Foreclosure starts jumped 32% in the third quarter of this year from the second quarter and were 67% higher than [...]

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