The Milken Institute recently released a list of the top five cities to grow old in. It looked at 100 large metropolitan areas and came up with these five cities based on healthcare, employment opportunities, lifestyle factors and other important factors Here is the list: Madison, Wisconsin Omaha, Nebraska Provo, Utah Boston, Massachusetts Salt Lake City, Utah
Archives for November 2014
Fed’s Powell contends low rates not creating stock market bubble
One Federal Reserve official doesn’t see any element of the market in bubble territory, even with years of zero-interest rate policy, cheap money and $4 trillion of new money added to the economy. Fed Governor Jerome Powell, a former Wall Street lawyer and investment banker, told CNBC in an interview that low rates instituted by […]
Is ‘showrooming’ an illegal practice adopted by consumers?
When customers visit a big-box store or a standard mom-and-pop bricks-and-mortar shop and browse around the store looking at items but then return home to buy it online or on their smartphone, is this stealing a company’s resources, such as time and energy? The trend of “showrooming” has been a common problem for retailers like […]
Japan’s sales tax hike a sign we should abolish consumption taxes
North America woke up Monday morning to discover that the nation of Japan has slipped back into a recession after a gross domestic product third-quarter contraction of 1.6 percent in addition to the seven percent dip in the previous quarter. The lack of consumption was blamed on the three percent sales tax hike on April. […]
Gold expected to fall to $950 next year: Credit Suisse
After starting off the year strong – rising to nearly $1,400 in March – gold has tumbled to just under $1,200 as the year slowly comes to an end. As officials and economists ostensibly see the global economy improving and the Federal Reserve winding down its interference in the marketplace, the yellow metal has lost […]