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Couple should shore up insurance
Q: My husband and I are both working part-time jobs with no benefits, and we have two young children. We have $600,000 in old 401(k) accounts, $130,000 in cash from a land sale and $5,600 in credit card debt. What should we be doing with our cash? —...
Tags: Financial Planning, Credit and Debt, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Nicholas Tremulis book 'For the Baby Doll' celebrates life and love
It may not rank with literature's greatest opening lines — “Call me Ishmael”; “It was a pleasure to burn”; or “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant...
Tags: Marianne Faithfull, Music Industry, Entertainment, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Chelsea (Staten Island, New York)
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The market strikes back
WASHINGTON -- We now know the promise and peril of paper wealth. In the last 15 years, the stock market's convulsions ought to have rattled even hardy investors. Twice -- after the popping of the "tech bubble" in 2000 and after the financial crisis in...
Tags: Stock Market, Financial Markets, Federal Reserve, Satellite and Cable Service, Personal Finance
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Pensions adjustment long overdue
Private corporations realized decades ago that fixed, "defined benefit" pensions created long-term financial liabilities that could threaten their competitiveness, and even their survival. So they switched to defined contribution, 401(k)-style plans...Tags: Retirement, Barack Obama, Personal Income, Government, Finance
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MarksJarvis: Dow record wipes away losses, but will it restore our trust?
Finally there. Investors had to wait more than five years, but the Dow Jones industrial average has wiped away the most terrifying period in stock market history since the Great Depression. Long-term stockholders, who lost 54 percent of their money...
Tags: Stock Market, Federal Reserve, Financial Markets, Rodney Dangerfield, Economy, Business and Finance
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Withdrawals from traditional IRAs can't be postponed
Dear Liz: I just turned 70. Must I draw now from my IRA? I still work full time. I heard from one investment company representative that since I work, there is an exemption that I may not have to start withdrawals. Is this true? Answer: You can postpone...Tags: Retirement, Career and Workplace, Personal Finance, Banking, Labor Legislation
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A crucial step toward retirement security for the working class
It's amazing, and depressing, when political compromise functions only to throw obstacles in the way of ideas that bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. Today's example: the long, tortuous road to bringing more retirement security to...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Social Security, Retirement, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Finance
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Never too early to plan for college expenses
Look at your cute baby, and imagine the little tyke wearing a high school cap and gown about 17 years from now. Picturing the child holding a diploma, when he or she can't even hold a rattle yet, is probably next to impossible. But that day will come....
Tags: Kohl's, Heavy Engineering, Students, Colleges and Universities, Mutual Funds
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Gordon Brush plant owner bristles at red tape tying up expansion
Ken Rakusin is frustrated. You would be too. Since 2009, the owner of Gordon Brush Manufacturing Co. has been trying to expand his 51,000-square-foot City of Commerce factory by 20,000 square feet. That would mean a larger factory floor, more office...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Local Government
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Equity-indexed annuity sales pitch is too good to be true
Dear Liz: Recently, someone from an insurance company proposed that I stop investing through my 401(k) at work and instead invest in his insurance company contract with after-tax dollars. He claims the funds would be guaranteed so that I would never...Tags: U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Insurance, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Personal Income
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Closing account won't help credit scores
Dear Liz: I'm 22 and a graduate student with only one year left before I enter the "real world." I have four credit cards — one store card, two Visa cards and one MasterCard — only one of which carries a balance. I want to make the best...Tags: Personal Finance, Credit and Debt, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Credit Ratings
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Two lattes and a cocktail: How to get your 20-something to save
For someone in their 20s, retirement is something their parents are talking about. It is almost impossible for them to imagine their own lives 50 years out. Telling kids to save for that day — when student loans and car payments and fixed expenses...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Personal Finance
Mar 17, 2013
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|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mar 6, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 1, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Feb 19, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Feb 3, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Feb 2, 2013
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Jan 13, 2013
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Feb 3, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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