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Britnee and their 4x4 on their 3-day crossing to Bolivia.

You too can drop everything and travel the world for $40,000

Meet Mark and Britnee Johnston, the couple who saved money, quit their jobs and traveled around the world for one year.

When Is the Right Time to Transfer Balances to a New Credit Card?

More and more people are enjoying purchases using their credit cards and not all aware of the consequences especially if they skipped payment. Likewise when they turn to a new credit card issuer and transfer their balance.

Social Security: What and When to Collect; What's the Max Strategy if Single, Never Married with No Kids

Social Security guru suggests collecting the benefits by the age of 70 for single, never married, childless people.

The College Pricing and Student Loan Systems Shackles Students from Achieving Their Life Dreams

College pricing and student loan systems shackle students from achieving their life dreams

College pricing and student loan system cripple 43 million Americans who collectively owe $1.3 trillion. It affects their credit score, their major life decisions, and it hinders them from achieving their life dreams.

Get help from a trusted executor during estate planning

An executor handles the proceedings involved in the estate of a diseased person, until the assets are given to the rightful beneficiaries.

Achieve your goals one day at a time - the secret to financial freedom

To reach your financial goals much sooner, a study suggests that it would be best to set your timeline by days, instead of by year.

Home Care Workers Extra Compensation, But From Whose Pocket?

Health workers devote much of their time and almost half of their lives caring for people who they do not know and are not even blood-related. Because of their patience, hardships, concern, and devotion, frail and disable people young and old were able to maintain a quality life. So it is deserving for them to get a raise as ruled by the court on Friday.

Get most out of your Fundraising in Silicon Valley; Learn the Tips and Tricks from Mattermark and more

Mattermark CEO and co-founder Danielle Morrill gave a tweetstorm of advice on how to get the best out of your fundraising in Silicon Valley.

MILLY And The Council Of Fashion Designers Of America Ring The Nasdaq Closing Bell

How to acquire funds for a startup fashion business

Imrad Amed of the Business of Fashion tackled some financing options that startup companies might want to consider.

5 Simple Tips on Streamlining Startup Business Effectively and Faster

Streamlining the business is one of the best leverage an entrepreneur can use to bring their startup business to newer heights. Here are five ways to properly streamline a startup company.

US allows social security benefits for same-sex spouses

As mandated by the Justice Department, gay couples can soon get social security benefits that their dead spouse worked so hard for.

Helpful Saving Tips When Dining Out

Dining out would be great but for those who have a limited budget and have a hard time making both ends meet, it would be less possible. But you should not deprive yourself the fun, sophistication and the good food just by following these tips on how you can save even if you eat out.

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Feel anxious? Have trouble sleeping? You may be traveling for business too often

People who travel for business two weeks or more a month report more symptoms of anxiety and depression and are more likely to smoke, be sedentary and report trouble sleeping than those who travel one to six nights a month, according to a latest study conducted by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and City University of New York.

Trump declares emergency on southern border

President Trump said Friday he is declaring a national emergency on the southern border, tapping into executive powers in a bid to divert billions toward construction of a wall even as he plans to sign a funding package that includes just $1.4 billion for border security.

Mix Reactions over Amazon Retreat on Long Island City

Amazon's decision to abandon plans to build a new campus in Long Island City, Queens, has drawn cheers from several politicians, community organizers and other locals opposed to the expansion.

Wall Street heavyweights on Cortez's proposed 70% super-rich tax

One of the hottest topics at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has been Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed 70% marginal tax rate on all income above $10 million.

Does the presence of colleges and hospitals increase home prices?

Whether the presence of a college or hospital increases a home's value has to do with the institution's size and the ZIP code's population, says a new study by computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside.

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The 2008 recession associated with greater decline in mortality in Europe

In recent decades, Europe has experienced a downward trend in the annual number of deaths. Not only was this trend not arrested by the economic recession that started in 2008, in fact, the rate of decline increased during the recession years.

'Unclonable' tag combats counterfeiters

Discovering that your new designer handbag or gold watch is a fake is costly and annoying, and counterfeit medical devices or drugs could have even more serious consequences. But seemingly as soon as manufacturers develop a new method to ensure product authenticity, counterfeiters find a way to outsmart it. Now, researchers have created an "unclonable" tag that can never be replicated, even by the manufacturer. They report their results in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

When the insurance company monitors your driving in real time does it help?

The traditional model for setting auto insurance premiums has been to base rates on the motorist's driving history, age, gender and even marital status (in some states). Thanks to new technological options, insurance companies, and motorists have started to work together to give the insurance companies access to better data on an individual driver's risk level, and give the same driver a sense of greater control over how much he or she will pay in insurance premiums.

Can machine learning deliver critical market insight on consumer needs faster and cheaper?

Consumer brands have long used old-fashioned focus groups, interviews and surveys to best gauge consumer wants, desires and needs as part of processes that range from product development, to marketing and sales. As machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged, there is an increasing interest in the ability to harness these solutions to save time and money, and to yield more reliable consumer insights.