It’s best to wait until you’re 70 to start receiving Social Security retirement benefits, even if it means tapping your retirement assets deep in a bear market. Why? Because the guaranteed and risk-free increase of 8% per year in the Social Security benefit is an unbeatable deal. And yet, in …
Read More »Fear City: Netflix docuseries recounts a time when the mafia ruled New York | Documentary film
FEar City: New York vs. The Mafia, Netflix’s three-part series about the police’s quest to bring down the New York mafia in the 1980s, begins with a sequence taken from a high-level episode of the Law and Order: “Five untouchable Mafia families hold the city in their hands,” says one …
Read More »Natwest chief Alison Rose warns of ‘tough times ahead’
Media playback is not supported on your device Media caption‘We want to support companies’ The same day the name RBS was sent to the annals of financial history, the head of the UK’s largest business lender warned that, while the painful memories of the last major financial crisis had faded, …
Read More »Periscope lens: what is it and what does it mean for iPhone?
We have heard reports before Apple plans to include a periscope lens in future iPhones, and a new report by Ming-Chi Kuo suggests that this will come in 2022. But what exactly is a periscope lens and what would it mean for future iPhones? For something that Huawei and Samsung …
Read More »Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek may be in Russia
EXCLUSIVE: Jan Marsalek, the former chief operating officer of the collapsed German financial services Wirecard, likely fled to Russia, not Belarus or the Philippines, intelligence sources told Insider. “Marsalek appears to have close ties to Russian government officials and possibly organized crime that were not obvious before but have become …
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