I spent 5 years studying rich people. Here are the best pieces of advice I can give you about money What secrets about managing money do the rich know that the average person doesn’t? I spent five years trying to answer that question. I asked 233 millionaires 144 questions and discovered that the rich have […]

Amazon’s Plan to Move In to Your Next Apartment Before You Do When tenants first walk into their new apartment at the Brandon Place complex in Oklahoma City, they aren’t likely to notice anything out of the ordinary for 2019—there are smart locks on the door with keycode entry, and contemporary thermostats with LCD touch […]

5 Health Care Costs That Medicare Does Not Cover Turning 65 brings access to senior discounts galore, but there is no benefit of senior citizenship quite like Medicare. The federal program extends subsidized medical insurance primarily to folks age 65 and older. But, while Medicare coverage comes with numerous freebies, it is hardly free. Medicare […]

When You Lose Weight, Your Fat Cells Don’t Just Let Go of Fat Belly flab is like a storage unit for the rest of your body. Mmmmmm, fat! DepositPhotos If cells were personified, each fat cell would be an overbearing grandparent who hoards. They’re constantly trying to make you eat another serving of potatoes, and […]

The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich Pt II U.S. Wealth Distribution, 2014 Data: World Inequality Database Some eminent economists, including the University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi and Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, endorsed the findings, but others were skeptical. The new numbers were much higher […]

The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich Gabriel Zucman started his first real job the Monday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Fresh from the Paris School of Economics, where he’d studied with a professor named Thomas Piketty, Zucman had lined up an internship at Exane, the French brokerage firm. […]

Surprise Medical Bills Are Driving People Into Debt: Will Congress Act To Stop Them Surprise medical bills — those unexpected and often pricey bills patients face when they get care from a doctor or hospital that isn’t in their insurance network — are the health care problem du jour in Washington, with President Trump and […]

In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County’s multibillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year. The annual point-in-time count, delivered to the Board of Supervisors, put the number of homeless people just […]

Trump administration unveils $16 billion bailout to farmers hurt by China trade war The Trump administration on Thursday announced a $16 billion trade aid program for American farmers that includes a three-pronged aid package for American farmers who have been hurt by the U.S. trade war with China. The centerpiece is cash payments totaling $14.5 […]

How to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck Are you stuck in the all-too-common habit of living paycheck to paycheck? You don’t need me to tell you that’s a self-defeating cycle. You simply can’t get ahead that way. But escaping isn’t easy, especially if your paycheck is tight. Change involves not just the hard work of […]