Personal Finance
10 things your kids won’t tell you
Fewer Americans are having children these days. And those that do are paying a higher price.
• 10 things celebrity chefs won’t tell you
• 10 things your personal trainer won’t say
• 10 things the intern won’t tell you
How to stop grieving over 2008 financial crisis
Commentary: For investors who have struggled emotionally with the market ever since the 2008 crisis, it’s important to get past those phases in order to get back on track to reaching goals and objectives.
• Surefire candidates for mutual fund hall of silly
• Why investors remain in abusive relationships
health care
When to kick adult children off your health plan
When to kick adult children off your health plan. Under the Affordable Care Act, there are options. Here’s what families need to know.
• How Obamacare is like Apple
• Have Medicare? Don’t worry about Obamacare
Electronic cigarettes stub out no-smoking signs
Thanks to electronic cigarettes, it may now be easier to get away with smoking on an airplane than with using a cellphone. The devices are beginning to reverse decades-long efforts to ban smoking in public places.
spending
The $7,300 pair of binoculars
See the world up very, very close with the Zeiss Sports Optics 20x60 binoculars.
• The real reason United honored free flights
• Read this before trashing companies online
• Room service in 2013: A bag of groceries
Ignore the ‘sell-by’ dates on your groceries
If you toss out food because the date on its package has long passed, you’re not doing yourself any food-safety favors.
• Why 40% of U.S. food is thrown away
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Stock market declares ‘game over’ on gun control
Commentary: Investors know that serious regulation is now a political nonstarter.
• Financial advice for Walter White
How to get the new iPhone for free
Resale sites will pay you well over $200 for your old iPhone.
• Some Apple fans stick with original 2007 iPhone
• Did Apple just kill the John Hancock?
media
Will IPO ruin Twitter?
The social media giant’s decision to go public will likely change the site in innumerable ways.
A college savings plan that beat hedge funds
A college investment plan designed to help parents cope with rising tuition costs ended up yielding such outsize returns officials had to shut it down.
• The best college for every major
• Even Ivy Leaguers default on student loans