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In our regular column about Bitcoin, we follow the growing pains of a new type of digital currency, sometimes called cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has experienced ups and downs lately, mainly down. …

Your retirement is approaching in a few years, and as things now shape up, you won’t have nearly enough money to live on.  How could this have happened?  You’ve been …

“We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.” — Sam Tanenhaus Just look at you – aren’t you something? Fifty-five, with a …

At his press conference today, Derek Jeter said his 19-season career with the New York Yankees went by “in a blink.” It did for the rest of us too.  The …

Most people are aware that the Great Recession of 2008 was triggered by sub-prime lending, what those of us in the real estate industry called a “no-doc” loan, also called …

Americans are a steadfast and energetic people.  Damn all the well-intentioned health advice about getting eight solid hours of sleep every night!  We simply refuse to let go of our …

“The merry-go-round is beginning to taunt me / Have I stayed too long at the fair?” — Barbra Streisand (lyrics from a song written by William C. Barnes) The thirty-year hanger-on.  Otherwise …

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” — Mahatma Gandhi Are public figures more corrupt and depraved than they used to be? …

If you thought that The Same Old Song was just a sixties tune recorded by the Four Tops, you didn’t attend yesterday’s session of The House Committee of Financial Services …

There’s nothing sadder than an aging hipster, said comedian/polemicist Lenny Bruce. Little did he know his comment was spawning a cottage industry. There’s a band called Ageing Hipsters. A travel …