23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Slide Show: 10 of the best places in the world to retire
Slide Show: 10 of the best places in the world to retire
The Top 10 spots on the new 2016 Retire Overseas Annual Index, from Live and Invest Overseas.
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23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Andrea Coombes’ Ways and Means: In a retirement panic? It’s not all your fault
Andrea Coombes’ Ways and Means: In a retirement panic? It’s not all your fault
A new report suggests that blame for retirement insecurity can’t be laid solely at the feet of individual savers.
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23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on OECD’s Gurria says no other EU country will consider an exit after British vote
OECD’s Gurria says no other EU country will consider an exit after British vote
Countries in the EU are unlikely to consider an exit from the bloc once they realize how complicated it will be for the U.K., the OECD told CNBC.
23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Iran urges global fight against terrorism after Munich attack
Iran urges global fight against terrorism after Munich attack
Iran said on Saturday the international community should make fighting terrorism its top priority.
23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Outside the Box: What Trump wants is for all of us to be his children
Outside the Box: What Trump wants is for all of us to be his children
Donald Trump is marketing himself as a father — to the entire nation, writes Chris Edelson.
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23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Big Week Ahead Highlighted By Fed Meeting, Key Earnings, GDP Estimate
Big Week Ahead Highlighted By Fed Meeting, Key Earnings, GDP Estimate
The recipe for this coming week? A stew of earnings, peppered with data and a Fed meeting. Also ahead: A first look at estimated Q2 gross domestic product.
23 July, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Payments Believe It Or Not
Payments Believe It Or Not
In 1918 a journalist named Robert Ripley animated a panel of “amazing facts,” most of which were about sports. Hence the name, Champs and Chumps.
By 1932, Ripley’s little comic had grown into something of an American institution with 80 million syndicated readers nationwide and a staff of two men who spent 12 hours a day in the New York Public Library looking for interesting facts for Ripley to bring to the people.
The world was a tough place pre-Google.
By 1932 the feature had acquired the name most of us still know it by: Ripley’s Believe Or Not.