3 Financial Mistakes People Make When They Retire
Retirement is an exciting time that most people look forward to throughout their working lives. However, many Americans’ retirement is put in jeopardy by common financial mistakes they make once they leave the workforce. And these mistakes can have serious consequences, leading to a loss of savings and forcing people to abandon retirement and return […]
Personal Capital vs. Quicken: Which Software Is Better in 2019?
Handling your personal financial management needs online is just a sign of the times. Whether it’s using financial management software on your laptop or turning to a mobile option to handle your budgets, debts, and investments, digital downloads are the way to go in today’s personal financial management marketplace. Two of the leading companies in the […]
10 Retirees Share Their Biggest Regrets
Retirement regrets Retirement is often depicted as a golden phase of life, but the reality of retirement doesn’t always shimmer. More than half of retirees have retirement regrets, according to a 2018 study by Global Atlantic Financial Group. Whether you’re in retirement or looking ahead to it, there are lessons to be learned from those who […]
What to do about a falling 401(k) retirement account
Many people are getting their 2018 year-end 401(k) statements about now, and they’re probably seeing significant declines in their account value for the first time in recent memory. If this happens to you, should you be concerned? The answer: It depends. For one thing, it depends on your age, and for another, it hinges on […]
LG smartphone rumor suggests a ‘second screen’ add-on
Not that unusual for a company that sells a rollable TV. Samsung has already teased its future of “Infinity Flex” foldable devices that blur the line between phone and tablet, and while we’d heard LG would show off something similar at CES last week, it didn’t. Now CNET cites anonymous sources indicating that we’ll see […]
SpaceX moves Starship development to southern Texas (update: no)
It’s a big loss for Los Angeles. SpaceX’s decision to construct its Starship test vehicle in Texas may have just been the harbinger of things to come. The LA Times has claimed that development and assembly of Starship and its Super Heavy booster system will take place in southern Texas, not the Port of Los Angeles. It’ll maintain existing design, manufacturing, […]
Tesla releases a plug-in EV charger you can take with you
It charges 25 percent faster than Tesla’s mobile connector. Tesla has released its first non-hardwired Wall Connector with a NEMA 14-50 plug for EV charging. Boasting 40 amps (9.6kW) of power, Tesla says the home charging device can juice up Model S, Model X and Model 3 cars 25 percent faster than the company’s Gen […]
Collection 1 data breach covers more than 772 million email addresses
Yes, one of yours is probably in there somewhere. If you’re signed up for one of the many services that alerts you to data breaches when they’re discovered (if you’re not, you probably should be) then you likely have an email waiting for you. Troy Hunt runs Have I Been Pwned where he makes it […]
Airbus starts work on A220
Airbus SE broke ground Wednesday on the A220 aircraft assembly line at its facility in Mobile, Ala., the first step in a US$300-million construction project paid for by Bombardier Inc. That amount makes up a chunk of the US$925 million the Quebec plane-and-train maker could shell out by the end of 2021 under a partnership […]
Sears staves off liquidation
Sears has won a reprieve in a desperate attempt to stave off its own demise. The company’s largest shareholder and chairman, Eddie Lampert, won a bankruptcy auction in New York, according to a source familiar with negotiations. The person agreed to speak on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the negotiation […]