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Apr 29, 2016

Are you planning to travel or retire overseas? Before packing your bags, it’s important to know just how portable your health insurance is—including your Medicare insurance. Newer forms of short term medical insurance are available that can give you medical evacuation benefits to fill gaps when you are out of the...


Apr 28, 2016

It's the "Case of the Missing Oil"-- The Wall Street Journal reports that last year, there were 800,000 barrels of oil PER DAY unaccounted for by the International Energy Agency. Where is it? What happened?  If its true, the oversupply that has pushed oil prices down may be less than the market thinks, meaning oil...


Apr 27, 2016

The Wall Street Journal reports on the fast proliferation of Artificial Intelligence and that we are only ten short years away from seeing bots all over the place in grocery store parking lots, and maybe even walking dogs. Driverless cars are already here and industry experts say that bots may soon have IQ's in excess...


Apr 26, 2016

Once upon a time, the Calgary Canada real estate market was roaring. Today, the housing market in the oil capital of Calgary has been hit so hard it makes the challenges faced by U.S. oil towns look relatively mild. Currency woes for the Canadian Looney make it worse for Canadians, but American second home buyers...


Apr 25, 2016

Target Date mutual funds are now riskier than ever according to a growing number of analysts. There are two ways to lose:  the market falling, and interest rates rising. Although target-date funds are designed to automatically lower your exposure to the market as time goes on, the place you land is in bond funds....