Nursing-home reform may finally become a reality: Three breakthroughs that are turning talk into action
Nursing-home reform, long advocated by long-term care analysts and the public, seems to finally be happening. The problems at these facilities — where people reside in close proximity for extended periods and the average age of residents is 86 — are many. More than 133,000 nursing-home residents and staff members have died from COVID-19 during […]
Salesforce layoffs at its home base in San Francisco number in the hundreds so far
Salesforce Inc., which last week said it would be slashing 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, has disclosed a wave of layoffs at its San Francisco headquarters in a filing with the state of California. A total of 752 job cuts will become effective March 24, Salesforce CRM, -1.72% said in a letter […]
Mother of All Debt Bombs & 9 Other Megathreats Are Looming, Gold May Be Best Protection: Roubini
Nouriel Roubini, CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and Professor Emeritus at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses his latest book, ‘Megathreats,’ as well as his outlook for 2023 and beyond. He discusses how investors can hedge against looming ‘megathreats,’ using commodities like gold. Source link
I met my wife in 2019 and we married in 2020. I put her name on the deed of my $998,000 California home. Now I want a divorce. What can I do?
Dear Quentin, I bought my home in California for $520,000 in 2017. It’s now worth $980,000. In 2019, I met my now-wife who moved in at the beginning of 2020. We married six months later in July 2020. Things were going great and we decided to have one bank account. I also added my wife […]
‘He is financially secure and owns two homes’: I finally met the man of my dreams, but he treated our waitress like dirt and tipped her 10%. Am I overreacting?
Dear Quentin, I’ll keep this short, as I don’t take any pleasure in reliving it. I have corresponded with a man for two months on a dating site that shall remain nameless (except to say it starts with T and ends in R). He had a very strong and decisive personality, which I liked, and […]
‘I can no longer be an executive at a high level’: Workers with disabilities, including long COVID, are finding their place as companies become more flexible
Dana Pollard started a new job at the end of 2022, after spending three years recovering from a 2019 stroke.Pollard, 56, lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with his wife. After the stroke, he could not recognize her. He couldn’t remember things, and one side of his body was partially paralyzed. After months of physical and […]
‘Concessions have made a comeback’: In a cooling housing market, sellers pull out all the stops to lure buyers
Some home sellers are finally accepting the writing on the wall, and offering concessions to home buyers as demand remains weak in the housing market. According to a new report from Redfin RDFN, +4.39%, approximately 42% of homes sold in the fourth quarter of 2022 came with concessions. In contrast, over the same period in […]