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Conventional knowledge dictates that retiring with debt — particularly a debt as giant and important as a mortgage — is financially dicey at finest and doubtlessly ruinous at worst. That’s not how Brian Lindmeier sees it. “It simply doesn’t make any sense in any respect to repay the home,” he stated. Mr. Lindmeier, 80, a […] More

Big offers are ready on the tarmac as Wall Street and the enterprise world anticipate how the presidential election will change antitrust enforcement. President Biden has taken an aggressive strategy to policing offers that some have referred to as overreaching and others have lauded as a essential return to scrutiny on the ability wielded by […] More

Robert Lanter lives in a 600-square-foot home that may be traversed in 5 seconds and vacuumed from a single outlet. He doesn’t have a coffee desk in the lounge as a result of it could impede the entrance door. When kin come to go to, Mr. Lanter says jokingly, however solely partly, they should tour […] More

Tucker Carlson left Moscow greater than every week in the past, driving excessive from an interview with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that returned him to the highlight after his abrupt cancellation by Fox News final spring. But the interview with the wartime autocrat, mocked in varied corners of the political-media world for its […] More

Lawyers representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein sued two of the disgraced financier’s closest advisers on Friday, accusing them of “aiding, abetting and facilitating” his intercourse trafficking of younger girls and teenage women. The civil go well with, filed in federal court docket in Manhattan, seeks class motion standing on behalf of Mr. Epstein’s many victims. […] More

When New York journal’s finance recommendation columnist dropped an article that went viral on Thursday about falling sufferer to a $50,000 rip-off, my coronary heart skipped a beat. My personal monetary planner had gone to jail years in the past, which I’d chronicled in just a few columns. Nearly all of us are susceptible to […] More

Robert Shiver’s invoice for his house owner insurance coverage jumped from $3,800 in 2022 to $8,000 in July. “I bear in mind opening the invoice and, actually, laughing, like, ‘This isn’t possible,’” he mentioned. Mr. Shiver, 40, who lives about 20 miles east of Tampa, Fla., didn’t pay the invoice. Instead, he labored along with […] More

The South Korean authorities unleashed a wave of panic throughout the web business: The nation’s antitrust regulator mentioned it could enact the hardest competitors regulation exterior Europe, curbing the affect of main expertise firms. The Korea Fair Trade Commission, with the backing of President Yoon Suk Yeol, mentioned in December that it deliberate to make […] More

President Biden is going through new strain to dam Nippon Steel’s acquisition of the enduring producer U.S. Steel, this time from environmental teams that say the tie-up would set again America’s efforts to curb local weather change. In interviews, environmental activists working to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions say the merger would carry collectively two […] More

By Matt Richtel Reported from ice-cream retailers and frozen-food aisles in Boulder, Colo. Feb. 15, 2024 Banana pudding, chocolate fudge brownie, salted caramel, Cherry Garcia, Dr Pepper Float and dozens of different flavors packed the ice-cream freezer at a neighborhood Safeway. Robin Sawyer, one latest Sunday afternoon, hunted for her private favourite, black raspberry chocolate […] More

Airbus stated Thursday that it will ramp up deliveries this yr of a number of the world’s most sought-after airplanes, bolstering its place as the most important business plane maker and pulling additional forward of Boeing as its U.S. rival focuses on the fallout from a serious security disaster involving its 737 Max line of […] More

For a rustic of morning-and-night tea drinkers, even the suggestion of a scarcity of the family staple can elicit a nervous gulp. So there may need been various individuals spooked when indicators in some Sainsbury’s grocery shops this week warned prospects that offer points had affected the “nationwide” availability of black tea, as Houthi assaults […] More