Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic? The Federal Reserve has seen a significant decline in currencies in circulation because people don’t spend them as regularly on businesses, many of which are temporarily closed or don’t accept cash. Coins are still abundant. In April, the United States Treasury …
Read More »DIY renovation projects offer the best return to homeowners, but there is a catch
Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Americans have much more free time, and they spend that time at home. Earlier in the health crisis, economists predicted that spending on renovation projects would actually sink in much of the country. But recent data shows that there has been a definite increase in …
Read More »When does it make sense to take Social Security at age 62?
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 »When does it make sense to take Social Security at age 62?
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 »Google Doodle commemorates the iconic Turkish astrophysicist
Google Doodle celebrates Dilhan Eryurt’s life with a caricature of the late Turkish astrophysicist. The image sees Eryurt, who died in 2012, looking at stars and planets, whose origins he helped discover for NASA in the 1960s. Born in western Turkey in 1926, Eryurt graduated with a degree in mathematics …
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