Author: super@dmin
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The Moneyist: ‘How much should I tip my housekeeper?’ My husband says we should tip the bare minimum. I say give her 30%. Who’s right?
‘I feel like we should tip people 30% for the trouble of coming into our home.’
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The Moneyist: My daughter died from a drug overdose, and two of her kids were raised by their other grandparents. I’m leaving my house to my son’s child. Is that fair?
‘Our will states that everything else will be divided so that our son gets half, and our late daughter’s three children get the other half.’
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Economic Report: Home builders sentiment index falls for record tenth month in a row in October. Home builders say the ‘situation is unhealthy and unsustainable.’
Outside of the pandemic, the drop in builder sentiment is the lowest since 2012, the National Association of Home Builders said.
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NerdWallet: Medical bills? Here are some ways to take back negotiating power.
Patients often have more power than they realize when it comes to negotiating prices with health care providers. Here are some tips for handling medical bills.
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BookWatch: 10 powerful (and legal) investing lessons you can learn from the most ruthless Gilded Age robber baron
The most important lesson from Jay Gould is one his victims learned the hard way: watch what people do, not what they say.
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Next Avenue: Retirees who want to ease the burden of inflation just need to get a little creative: Here’s how
Here are several ways you can learn to save big on some expenses, and still enjoy the good things in life from time to time.
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Commodities Corner: What happens if more buyers refuse metals like aluminum from Russia? The LME doesn’t want to find out
Speculation that the U.S. is considering a ban on aluminum from Russia contributed to a brief spike in prices for the metal a week ago, but some consumers have already voluntarily chosen to avoid metals from Russia. That’s led the London Metal Exchange (LME) to consider options to circumvent trading distortions potentially caused by a…
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: ‘It’s $10,000 that’s on the line.’ Borrowers who used Pell grants decades ago can’t find proof and worry they will lose Biden’s relief.
Student loan borrowers who believe they used Pell grants before 1994 can’t find evidence of the grant on the government’s student aid portal, MarketWatch found.
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The New York Post: New Yorkers are ‘stupid’ for moving to Texas, Florida: Wall Street’s ‘Dr. Doom’
The senior economist who earned the nickname “Dr. Doom” after correctly predicting the 2008 financial crisis has ridiculed transplanted New Yorkers for “stupidly” relocating to Sun Belt states during the pandemic.
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: Airbnb hosts say bookings ‘fell off a cliff’ amid influx of new vacation rentals and rising prices
‘We went from 80% [occupancy] to zero,’ one host says in a common refrain among property owners who say they saw a sudden decline in the summer months