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Purepoint May Be Changing Its Focus
Purepoint MUFG, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi UFG Financial Group, entered the online banking market in late 2016 in a very aggressive manner, offering what was then the highest online savings and highest 1-year CD... Read →
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Giant Pharmaceutical Companies Abandon Research on Alzheimer’s Disease, Leaving Millions Without Hope
For years now, those suffering from Alzheimer’s, their families and their caregivers have been holding their collective breaths awaiting announcements by big pharma of a breakthrough on major research and development to find a cure... Read →
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A Physical Exam Without a Test for Dementia
Trump will soon have his first full physical exam since entering the White House. There has been much concern expressed, given the explosion of questions about his mental state, that he will not be having any tests for dementia as part of... Read →
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The Pendulum Swing
A lot of very positive things have happened in the last months, all of which have given important visibility to sexism in our daily work lives and to the still very much unfinished work of equal rights in every thing and everyway for women.... Read →
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Basket of Deplorables
America is in a bad place, at home and abroad. In fact, there is considerable consensus within the country, among Republicans and Democrats alike, that the country is in trouble. Each side is pointing fingers at the other, but the reality... Read →
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Dreamers No More
It’s entirely possible that America’s 800,000 Dreamers will actually get expelled from the United States and sent to countries they know absolutely nothing about and speak not a whit of their language. These are Americans in... Read →
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2018 Starts with A Bang!
2018 started with a complete bang in global financial markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 25000 and seems well on its way to 26000. Not only did our President say that it could go much higher in 2018, but so did David Tepper.... Read →
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I Have a Chronically Torn ACL and Am Not Surprised Drew Stanton Played Out the NFL Season with One
Two years ago, I was playing soccer in Riverside Park in New York. I tore my left meniscus. At that point, an MRI confirmed that I had a chronically torn Anterior Crucial Ligament (ACL) in the same knee. In other words, I probably tore... Read →
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Blue States Thinking Creatively In Response to 2018 Federal Property Tax Deductibility Changes
Blue States are working hard to overcome many of the hits they took following the all-Republican Tax Law – a law that decidedly disadvantage Blue high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and California. ... Read →
Door Finally Opens to Taxing Non-Profits in 2018
The new Trumpian Tax Law just passed by Congress did a lot of very unfortunate things, most especially handing out disproportionate tax cuts and advantages to the most wealthy individuals and companies at the expense of everyone else. In... Read →
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2018 Is A Lousy Year to Leave Your Money Where It Earns Nothing
Happy New Year! 2018 is going to be a great year. Will it be another barnburner on the stock market like 2017? Maybe, but you sure cannot bet everything on it. What you can be sure of is that savings rates have moved up. There are... Read →
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A Five-Year Certificate of Deposit Paying 3% in 2018
As we begin 2018, 5-year Certificates of Deposit offered nationally and online don't yet earn 3%. Depending on where you live, you may however find a 5-year CD in your city offered by a local bank that pays 3%. Or, you may find a... Read →
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Turning a Blind Eye Again on Nursing Home Abuse
The last place anyone wants to be, and the one place many if not most end up, is a nursing home. Nursing homes are famous for turning a blind eye, even abusing those under their care. With only rare exceptions, they tend to be shabby,... Read →
Bitcoin and Blockchain: “That’s OK. I Didn’t Really Understand It At First Either”
I am old enough to have lived through 1999 and 2000. Actually, I am old enough to say that it is part of my adult experience. I worked in the internet and telecom sector then. We were building real things and the world was being... Read →