Income Share Agreements Can Help You Pick the Best Majors for Jobs

IN 2013 AND 2014, headlines heralded the rise of for-profit income share agreements binding young borrowers to private investors. Students who attracted financial support agreed to pay back their wealthy benefactors a percentage of their future incomes for a specified amount of time. These contracts raised eyebrows. Critics noted the ISAs were structured to allow […]

How 401(k) savers can avoid a nasty surprise come retirement

Since its debut nearly 40 years ago, the 401(k) has emerged as one of the premier tools to save for retirement in America. In fact, when we poll 401(k) participants across the country, the majority of them consistently say it’s their largest — or only — source of retirement savings.* One of the main reasons […]

Americans are saving more for retirement, but it may not be enough

The good news: Americans are saving more than they ever have for retirement. The bad news: They’ll probably need to save even more. Employees contributed an average of $2,370 per account to their 401(k) plans in the first quarter of 2019, a record level and 15% more than one year prior, according to Fidelity Investments, […]

Child Support Laws and Expectations

IF YOU’RE NEWLY divorced and you have children, odds are you’re probably just getting acquainted with the concept of child support. After all, child support law and regulation can be complex and confusing. “I have never met a parent who felt like he or she was receiving sufficient child support. Likewise, most parents who pay […]

US and Luxembourg sign ‘space commerce’ pact

Asteroid mining is likely high on the list of priorities. The current US government relishes the thought of bringing business to space, and it’s now eager to make deals with countries that share the same dreams. The US has signed a memorandum of understanding with Luxembourg in a bid to cooperate further on space exploration, […]

Louis Vuitton’s flexible-screen handbags are the definition of extra

It’s 2019, bro. With flexible screens being all the rage nowadays, more and more companies are building products touting the technology. But there’s an unexpected one joining the craze: Louis Vuitton. The luxury brand has introduced a set of handbags that feature built-in flexible displays, which Louis Vuitton tells Engadget are AMOLED and have a […]

Mozilla explains why all Firefox add-ons broke at once

And how they’ll avoid it in future. Firefox Chief Technology Officer Eric Rescorla has written a detailed blog post explaining exactly how the browser’s add-ons came to break all at once last week, how it was fixed, and how the company will avoid another ‘armagadd-on’ in the future. The company already explained that the mass […]

Boeing shows off its Starliner’s latest parachute test

The parachutes will help bring astronauts home from the ISS. As SpaceX and Boeing continue with their commercial crew space race, Boeing posted this video showing a test of the parachutes on its Starliner vehicle. The plan is for the crew to parachute down in the American southwest after departing the ISS aboard Boeing’s spacecraft, […]

Stocks to Watch: Largo Resources Ltd (OTCQX:LGORF) Up +2.08%

At close of market on Thursday, Largo Resources Ltd (OTCQX:LGORF) stock finished trading at +2.08%, bringing the stock price to $1.34 on the OTCQX Marketplace. The stock price saw a low of $1.25 and a high of $1.51. The company’s stock was traded 1,977 times with a total of 2,971,230 shares traded. Largo Resources Ltd […]

Stocks to Watch: The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings (TSX:TGOD) Down -5.16%

At close of market on Thursday, The Green Organic Dutchman Holdings (TSX:TGOD) stock finished trading at -5.16%, bringing the stock price to $4.04 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The stock price saw a low of $4.03 and a high of $4.28. The company’s stock was traded 3,378 times with a total of 2,106,422 shares traded. […]

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