Traditional brick and mortar retailers Walmart and Target are a step ahead of Amazon in the delivery battleground: while Amazon is offering 1-day delivery Walmart and Target are already moving to same-day. That’s according to retail equity analyst John Zolidis. “It may be tempting to think that Amazon investing $800 million to move its Prime
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Monetary policy drives the economy and the markets. Taxes, trade, and other issues influence economic growth and the markets. But monetary policy is the main driver. Easier monetary policy leads to rising financial markets and a growing economy. Tighter monetary policy has opposite effects. Once the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates and tightening monetary
MRI examination film of patient’s head as a medical diagnostic background. Getty First, a reminder: retirement policy isn’t simply about getting people over the “finish line” of retirement age with a sufficient nest egg or projected future income. It’s just as important to pay attention to the well-being in retirement of the current and future
McDonald’s cannot beat Shake Shack and Wendy’s on “Signature-Crafted Burgers.” It doesn’t have the right business model to prepare and deliver them to its customers. That could explain why the company removed them from its menus, sticking with its conventional Quarter Pounders. The fast food giant introduced the Signature Crafted burgers two years ago in
The cruise industry transported over 26 million customers last year and was worth upwards of $117 billion in 2017. All market projections show that the industry will continue to grow as operators continue to build new state-of-the-art ships with the latest in leisure opportunities. However, as nations strive to reduce their CO2 emissions and companies come under
It’s easy to see why investors love utilities: Low volatility High yields But there’s a problem: recent scares like the inverted yield curve mean some utilities, and utility funds, have gotten ahead of themselves and are more prone to a pullback than most folks think. (The three 7%+-yielding closed-end funds (CEFs) I’ll show you shortly
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS Remember the Brady Bunch television show that extolled the joys and challenges of blended families? Mike and Carol Brady were the iconic blended family, each bringing 3 children into the marriage and raising them as one big happy family. I
The federal debt limit expired on March 1. Why does it matter? Markets didn’t move and the holders of the $22 trillion debt didn’t utter a peep of worry that the U.S. government wouldn’t pay their interest or redeem the bonds. The government is now taking temporary measures to pay its bills – delaying intragovernmental
An Extinction Rebellion climate change protester (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) ASSOCIATED PRESS Parts of London were brought to a standstill by the Extinction Rebellion last week. The protesters seek to bring to the public’s attention the ticking time bomb that the human race faces by not addressing climate change seriously or quickly enough. The Extinction Rebellion
The irony that a futurist would find his passion in history. But this University of Chicago undergrad did just that. And with it, he’s bringing joy as well as a fresh look at history to people of all ages all over the world. Michael Sitver, who will graduate in just under two months with a
French Game of Thrones fans, Claire Pottier (L) and Hugo Chivard (R), from Normandy, take part in sword fighting at the Castle Ward Estate in Strangford, northern Ireland, on April 17, 2019 the location of Winterfell in Game of Thrones, and one of the many locations used by the hit HBO show across the province.
Arvis Stubbs | Facebook Last week, I spent four days at the American Society on Aging’s 2019 Aging in America Conference and the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit, both in New Orleans. My goal: to learn and report on the latest news and trends concerning money, work and volunteering for boomers and Gen Xers. I
The Bank of England left and The Royal Exchange in the Square Mile City of London financial district. Getty The position of Governor of the Bank of England (BoE) is the most senior position within the central bank of the United Kingdom (U.K.). It is classified as a civil service position and in most instances
Getty royalty free Depending on which source you ask, financial losses due to elder abuse are estimated to be somewhere between $3 and $40 billion per year. One of the largest contributors to that loss is unauthorized check writing or other kinds of account tapping – sometimes by a stranger, more often by a “trusted” relative or
It’s time, again, for the annual Social Security Trustees’ Report. The headline figures, as always, are the change in the dates at which the various trust funds are projected to be depleted. Combining OASI (Old-Age and Survivors Insurance) and DI (Disability Insurance) together, the depletion date has been extended one year further out, from 2034
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Photo Credit: Getty Getty Did your state make the list? Here are the top 15 states with the most jobs where you can work from home. Work From Home: 3 Types Flexjobs ranked the Top 15 states with the most jobs where you can work from home. These jobs
Mirabella, under construction at Arizona State University, represents among the latest in the growing popularity of “University Based Retirement Communities” or “UBRCs” Pacific Retirement Services The U.S. population continues aging towards a “Silver Tsunami,” with the first of nearly 80 million Boomers now entering their early 70s, and nearly 10,000 of their subsequent cohort turning
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Baby Boomers, their dependents and survivors are facing prospects the Social Security trust fund paying for their benefits will dry up in 2034. The estimate is unchanged from last year by the trustees. However, the disability fund has been given 20 years of additional life to
Talking about my generation. Next For Me Over 12 months in 2018 my company Next For Me got an intimate look at thousands of Americans over 50. We learned that they are thinking hard about what the future of work and financial stability means for them. Following are the results of the research titled: Understanding the 50+
The Social Security Board of Trustees has just released its annual report to Congress. If past reporting is an accurate guide, it will be misreported. Thanks to decades of a billionaire-funded campaign to undermine confidence in Social Security, the Trustees Report will likely be greeted with cries that Social Security is going broke. The truth