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With stagnant wages, rising cost of living (see shelter inflation), and a lack of savings, Americans are retiring later than ever before (if at all). But in a double-whammy for seniors, whose health is declining, their lifespans are shrinking offering them little if any time to enjoy the end of the American Dream walking hand in hand into the sunset on a faraway beach…

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Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

If bitcoin can be converted into fiat currencies at a lower transaction cost than the fiat-to-fiat conversions made by banks and credit card companies, it’s a superior means of exchange.

One of the most common comments I hear from bitcoin skeptics goes something like this: Bitcoin isn’t real money until I can buy a cup of coffee with it.

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The choices you make regarding your retirement investments will affect how the last (and hopefully best) decades of your life play out. Choose the wrong investments, and you’ll face serious income shortages as a senior — and in a worst-case scenario, you may run out of money and rely entirely on Social Security, which only pays the average beneficiary about $16,000 a year.

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David Leonhardt
Op-Ed Columnist
The big health care bills in Congress this year — the ones that failed — were probably…

Opinion: The tax bill deserves to die

David Leonhardt
Op-Ed Columnist
The big health care bills in Congress this year — the ones that failed — were probably…

Opinion: The tax bill deserves to die

A strong May-Oct. typically results in an above-average Nov.-April stretch, says LPL Research.

A strong May-Oct. typically results in an above-average Nov.-April stretch, says LPL Research.