Last week, I was offered a free cruise ... to the closing table, specifically for one of my listings. This wasn’t just a one-time offer either; it was offered every day, and more than one per day, on this same home. Intrigued and curious (much like a mosquito to an electric zapper), I read ...
Gearing up to pay for college tuition, approximately $2,800 at Utah State University in 2002, I convinced my boyfriend the best way to get fast cash was to fly to Valdez, Alaska, and can fish for the summer at the Peter Pan Seafood factory. As only an immortal teenager would, I salivated ...
The term brain rot was voted Oxford University Press’ word of the year in 2024, an unusual honor for a phrase that started as online slang. OUP defines it as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially from consuming too much trivial or unchallenging ...
Imagine this. You’re using your own retirement money — money you’ve already worked a lifetime to save — to pay for long-term care. But when tax season comes around, you don’t owe a single penny in income tax on those withdrawals. Sound impossible? It’s not. Thanks to a pair of ...
Last week, layoffs surged to a 30-year high, reigniting fears that artificial intelligence is replacing human workers faster than expected. Is it really that bleak? I reached out to Dr. Gulshan Singh, procurement data analytics manager at Huntsman and an AI expert who has spent nearly two ...
It started quietly in one corner of the country. In 2022, Washington State rolled out the first program of its kind — a mandatory long-term care insurance tax on workers’ paychecks. The goal? Help residents cover the crushing cost of long-term care. But here’s the catch: If you didn’t ...
