Your 3 biggest Social Security questions answered
For people who are more than a decade or so away from retirement, however, some sort of downsizing is more likely. The Boston College Center for Retirement Research’s Social Security…
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Tim Geithner: Europe in a worse spot than Japan
Limited, fragile growth ahead: Europe is currently struggling with high levels of unemployment, unsustainable debt and a scary bout of deflation. “Even the best, most optimistic view of what’s possible…
TurboTax is warning of email scams after fraud scare
Related: TurboTax restarts e-filing of state tax returns after fraud concerns – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA,…
The lottery game that’s bigger than Powerball
According to a study by Spry, about three out of four instant game tickets are purchased by people with below-average incomes. Wealthier players tend to enter the big multi-million drawings….
Qualcomm survives its brush with Chinese regulators
Related: China crackdown makes it harder to get around the Great Firewall – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the…
Hackers are stealing your tax refund
Pulling off the crime Fraudsters prefer to use commonly available tax preparation software. Forms are quickly put together, so they can file dozens or hundreds in a single day. And…
How to win the lottery … and lose it all
He burned through a lot of cash. Though he won’t say how much. Whittaker is now married to a real estate agent and owns two businesses that “haven’t been doing…
Oil toll: Halliburton to cut up to 6,400 jobs
Related: Oil at $55 per barrel is here to stay – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which…
Sony makes deal to bring Spider-Man to Disney’s Marvel
The long-rumored deal could mean superhuman profits at the box office for Marvel and Sony. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time,…
Reaching deaf babies with implants, iPads and therapy
Early intervention In the first few hours of life, most babies born in the United States are given a mandatory hearing test. Quick, painless and inexpensive, the test is key…
Automakers don’t protect you enough from car hackers, senator says
Cars are now connected to the Internet. That means someday in the not-too-distant future, a hacker could knock your car off the highway. Senator Markey’s staff found that 100% of…
Jon Stewart on Williams: “Bri… why?’
“Finally,” he said sarcastically, “somebody is being held to account for misleading America about the Iraq War.” A “Daily Show” alum, Larry Wilmore, also took the time to comment on…
Netflix is now available in Cuba
The Castro regime tightly controls Internet access, only allowing select information to be available to its citizens. Yet the Cuban government has recently signaled that it wants to expand access….
Will Brian Williams return?
The trio of executives have said nothing publicly since Friday, when Turness confirmed that an internal fact-checking investigation was underway. But this crisis is taking up all of their time….
Russian homeowners ask Putin for help
– Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer….
Brian Williams controversy: Here’s what we know
Defenders in television: Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather vouched for Williams’ character, calling the embattled anchor “an honest, decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor.” Fox News host Megyn…
Alan Greenspan: The euro is doomed
Tspiras and European leaders are in ongoing talks about Greece’s bailout for the rest of 2015. There’s not a lot of optimism about a good solution. Greece’s stock market is…
JPMorgan worker and wife dead in murder-suicide: Police
Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar:…
Disney’s earnings should scare every cable subscriber
Simply put, Disney needs its Cable Networks revenue to outpace its costs of content to continue to reward shareholders, and it needs cable subscribers to (mostly) pay for it. College…
The No. 2 most popular fund on planet is ‘SPY’
Related: The 5 hottest ETFs in the world It’s cheap! The other great benefit of SPY is how cheap it is. The fund charges a mere 0.11%, far lower than…
Your Samsung TV is listening to your private conversations
“Samsung does not retain voice data or sell it to third parties,” the company said in a statement. “If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature … the…
Grammy celebs demand fair pay for musicians
Related: The world’s 10 richest recording artists – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by…
India’s growth numbers are a total mystery
Analysts say it’s too early to draw major conclusions based on the new data. Many contend that the new growth numbers do not square with evidence of continued weakness. “But…
Matchmakers predict the future of love
“People already talk about loving their iPhones,” she said. “It seems like it could be part of the trajectory in 50 or 100 years.” Related: Money can buy you love…
We want your love: Apps compete for online daters
For now, most dating startups are laser focused on growing their user base. “I think 10 or 15 launch every week, and at the end of the year, about one…
Greek stocks tank as eurozone standoff intensifies
Both sides are standing firm on how to deal with the country’s massive debts. Greece is running out of money, and its combative stance has worried markets. That is threatening…
Money can buy you love — or at least make you datable
But as work picked up (“I was working 60+ hours a week,” he said), he had less time to date online. “I found a writer on Craigslist and paid him…
Oil at $55 per barrel is here to stay
The Paris-based IEA, which monitors energy market trends for the world’s richest nations, said the impact of lower prices would vary across producing countries. – Most stock quote data provided…
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough: ‘We all make bad mistakes’
She said she has been “kind of horrified by the pile-on that I’m seeing out there,” adding, “I guess it’s part of the game and Brian would know that, too….
With Brian Williams absent, Lester Holt looks to steady ‘NBC Nightly News’
Effron, who is now a media consultant and adjunct journalism professor at William Paterson University, said that Holt never begrudgingly took an assignment while at MSNBC. This week is, in…