In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble. But workers who move to a place like Atlantic City for a job and invest in a home have no such protection…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-ordinary-people-bear-_b_5858306.html
Once you start withdrawing from retirement savings, investment volatility can be especially devastating. Learn how to manage it. http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2014/09/10/perils-post-retirement-investing/?intcmp=HPBucket
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, Mecca was so small, pilgrims could sit at the cube-shaped Kaaba and look out at the […]