Balancing in the surf in Mexico Chuck Bolotin If you have founded or run your own start-up, even within a larger institution, you know that doing so requires vision and courage and can at alternate times be exhilarating, frustrating, demanding, scary and challenging. It can cause you to question your abilities and then to gain
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The Social Security 2019 Trustees Report projects that the Social Security trust fund will be depleted by 2035. That report triggered “The sky is falling” recommendations from numerous sources that you start Social Security as early as you can, before the fund is exhausted completely. But that would be a bad bet. Setting the record straight
They started out studying the immune response to brain tumors in children. But what they found may not only stop tumors from growing, but halt Alzheimer’s disease as well. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital—the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children—have discovered a pathway that prevents the buildup of
How should you react to volatile markets? Getty If you follow the stock market’s daily action, do you react? Even though year-to-date through June, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 15.4% (total returns), we’ve had 55 down days out of 124 trading days during the first six months of 2019. The top five market
Consider Location, Heallthcare and Work Before Money Steve Chen – Glacier National Park This weekend my friend Kurt came by to pick something up that he left at my 50th birthday party and let me know he just turned 60. Although due to ageism he doesn’t share his real age “I’m a perma 55 on
It’s time for a cultural wake-up call. Here’s the business case for hiring and retaining workers 50+. The beauty of it is that everyone wins from companies to workers, and, you bet, the economy. When it comes to hiring, smart employers know that it’s not about age. Really. An innovative company wants talented people, period. And in
By Sherri Snelling, Next Avenue Contributor George Vradenburg, the co-founder and chairman of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s advocacy group is a man on a mission. And he is in a hurry. He’s not prepared to wait until 2025, the federal government’s deadline to recommend next-step solutions for Alzheimer’s disease through the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA). Instead, at
ASSOCIATED PRESS IBM is catching up with fast growing technology companies Microsoft and Amazon, recently. On Wall Street, that is. IBM’s shares have gained 34.80% YTD, compared to 35.58% of Microsoft and 30.80% of Amazon—see Chart. All three companies have outperformed the overall market. IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon shares YTD Koyfin That’s a big change
Today we’re going to dive into a question subscribers to our CEF Insider service often ask: what happens to a closed-end fund’s dividend when stocks take a tumble? The answer is coming up shortly (and if you’re at all worried about this levitating market suddenly snapping back, you’re going to like what I have to
By Phyllis Segal, Next Avenue Contributor Volunteering at a Jumpstart preschool summer program JumpstartVolunteering at a Jumpstart preschool summer program I’ve been studying the candidates running for president, searching for ideas they have to bring us together as a nation. As a former board member of the federal Corporation for National and Community Service (which includes