Tag Archives: Living

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Getting old sucks, and I don’t like it one bit. My hair is thinning. I don’t wake up at 1:45 a.m. each day with the same fiery energy to obsess over markets and stocks. I am down to eating red meat three times a month “just because” it’s what people have told me is the right thing to do at this point in life. From what I can tell, one of the only positives of getting old is… Source link

In 2012, I graduated from college and got a job at Google. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive places in the U.S., and my Asian parents always said that renting was a waste of money. So after I finished school, it just made sense for me to live at home while I got on my feet. Even though I planned to get my own place at some point, I ended up living at home for 12 years. When I moved out this past December, I had $400,000 saved… Source link

In response to a spike in searches for “cost of living,” Google is updating search results with quick access to helpful resources. Search volume for “cost of living” is at a 10-year high, Google says in a blog post: “In fact, search interest in “cost of living” has reached a 10-year high this year in the U.S. For people looking for information about financial assistance, help is often a search away. We have updated our search experience to make it easier for people seeking… Source link

Nearly half of Americans earning more than $100K now report living paycheck to paycheck — here are the consequences Americans are still grappling with high inflation — the consumer price index was 8.3% in August — and even the wealthy are teetering on the edge. About 6-in-10 Americans were living paycheck to paycheck in August, according to a recent report produced by commerce data platform PYMNTS and personal loans website LendingClub. And even those who earn six-figure incomes are… Source link

Pushing yourself to save can be a challenge, but more and more consumers are tallying up their monthly expenses to find they have nothing left to save anyway. A recent study shows 58% of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck in May, up from 54% the same month last year. Of those earning $50,000 to $100,000, about 62% were stuck in this cycle. But it’s not just lower-income groups struggling to foot the bills, according to the report produced by payments and commerce platform PYMNTS… Source link

At age 81, actress Donna Mills wants Hollywood to know she’s not going anywhere. The iconic star, who played the glamorous, scene-stealing Abby in Knots Landing, hopes her part in Jordan Peele’s highly-anticipated film, Nope, makes that clear. “I want to look to the future,” she tells The Daily Beast in a wide-ranging interview. “I’m not done yet.” Shortly after she left Knots, Mills decided to take a break from acting as she became a mom at 54. “I left the business for 18 years to raise… Source link

“Do you like to breathe?” This is a question that the marine biologist and deep-sea explorer Sylvia Earle asks frequently. The ocean produces half of the oxygen on Earth. If it dies, humanity can’t survive, so humans better pay attention to it. When Google introduced its 3-D map, Earle pointed out that the designers had forgotten to include the oceans: it was Google Dirt, she said, not Google Earth. (Google fixed the oversight, with her help.) Earle, a gamine eighty-six, has searching… Source link

You don’t hear much applause at golf tournaments anymore. “The art of clapping is gone,” Tiger Woods said a couple years back. “Everyone’s holding a cell phone.” Oh sure, you’ll still hear plenty of “woo” and “mashed potato” and “Tiger Tiger Woods y’all” and, of course, “get in the hole.” (“Baba Booey” has faded as Howard Stern’s cultural footprint has diminished. “Brooksy” mostly vanished when Koepka and DeChambeau squashed their beef. And “dilly dilly” died the lonely, unmourned… Source link

Jimmy Butler took a questionable shot on Sunday with a trip to the NBA Finals at stake. He missed. The Miami Heat lost. The Boston Celtics instead advanced to play for an NBA championship. For this, Butler has no regrets. Butler pulls up for 3 with NBA Finals on the line In a familiar refrain throughout the postseason and since he joined Miami in 2019, Butler carried the Heat on his back as they clawed their way back into Game 7 before ultimately falling short. There’s no other player Heat fans… Source link

Associated Press Scholar uses trash as treasure to study life in North Korea When the waves wash trash onto the beaches of front-line South Korean islands, Kang Dong Wan can often be found hunting for what he calls his “treasure” — rubbish from North Korea that provides a peek into a place that’s shut down to most outsiders. “This can be very important material because we can learn what products are manufactured in North Korea and what goods people use there,” Kang, 48, a… Source link