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In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have developed a blood test for Alzheimer's disease that predicts with astonishing accuracy whether a healthy person will develop the disease.

One more reason to delay taking social security. It is possible to get up to 6 months SS amount in a lump sum if SS started after full retirement age: WSJ article

I am trying to decide whether to get local health insurance, it is just for hospitalization and limit is approx. 20000USD/yr for both spouses combined, Premium/yr age wise: 40- 300 45- 500 50- 700 55- 850 60- 1000 If...

From BNL, nice description of corporate hierarchy, I am trying to fit in one of categories but still unsuccessful, Why oh why didn’t I take the BLUE pill? link

Where I live, the health insurance concept is little different, it is more like catastrophic insurance. Insurance only pays for hospital only after minimum time of admittance, there is a limit on total amount, and various limits on different things like room rent etc.. There is some pre and post...

. support-builds-for-premium-support-plan-for-medicare Members of both parties told the panel that Medicare should offer a fixed amount of money to each beneficiary to buy coverage from competing private plans, whose costs and benefits would be tightly regulated by the government I...

A hypothetical situation, A person REed in a cheaper cost of living country. That person has enough money to live a quality life at the cheaper destination. Now something happened (Exchange rate turned worst, VISA, tax, health, etc.), that person is forced to return to original country. But...

It happen twice to me and once to one other family member, somehow facebook account is created for my web email accounts, I checked the links in emails and they are legit. I really don't want to go on facebook, is it facebook itself mining the data or one of friend want to force me in it? I am...

Turntable of my microwave oven is not working. First, is it really important to rotate food in the microwave, I remember that one of my old did not have the turntable, internet told me that I have to rotate food 180 degrees for even heating half way through cooking? I have now the motor removed...

I am out of job since Januray, my initial plan was to do some consulting but that did not work out. So I am back in the job market. I am talking to several companies and received offer from one. I am kind of OK with the offer except if the pay is 5-10% extra that would be good. But I did not...

Peak Oil date keep on shifting in the future, is it the date? US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015

Money 'only makes you happy if you have more than neighbours'. I came across this, it seems to be my problem now but with different flavor. I don't care about other peoples opinion on my living standard, clothes, car, house etc. But I realized after getting laid off and unsuccessfully still...

According to this in NYT productivity in not growing as fast as it is stated. I did not find anything non-factual in the article. I take example of software outsourcing, if local taxes are high and there are no taxes in remote location then local employee will loose. Somehow I dont understand...

Here is link to new proposals, any chance of passing this year? I didn't see any thing to control costs, I may have missed it. But without substantial cost control how will this get paid. This can be the first step, once costs go out of control then cost control will come. Anyway first let's see...

I don't recall seeing this topic, there were similar threads for previous years. My total spending was about 13000. I lost interest in keeping record around September so it's an estimate. My spending is low since I am living in a developing country.

Recently I lost my job, my username used to be landover but I lost the password to that account with returning of office laptop. As some of you may recall, I moved back to my country of birth after staying in the US for 10+ yrs. This was around 3 yrs back. Now I am well settled but this job...

My original account name is "landover" but I forgot my password. It was saved with the browser but when I changed my laptop, it was lost. I am trying to retrieve it but I am not getting lost-password-mail to my email account. It is possible that I forgot my email account since account was...

As some of you may remember that I moved back to my original country. Now my company is sending me for a short visit to the US and by the way they are not providing me with rental car. I think I will need car to visit friends. I can rent a car, there are some good deals but I am not sure about...

I am originally from a third world developing country moving back in May/June. Although I have earned and saved well but lost most of money in tech bust and my employer stock. My wife and kids have to leave in May /June otherwise I think my kids will not be able to adjust to local culture due to...

Due to recent incidents, is it a good idea to convert one of the old PC to linux and used for all sensitive web transactions. I think some software like Quicken/tax software and other will not run on linux, these software can be used on normal PC but try to limit sensitive information on normal...

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/columnists/all/stories/DN-burns_29bus.ART0.State.Edition2.9678e0b.html I guess its better to have more money coming from SS than managing my own money when I am 85 aprt from tax issue.