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Retirement Weekly: Can you answer this crucial retirement-planning question? Most people can’t.

How can you plan for retirement if you don’t know how long it will last?

Retirement Weekly: My mother died 7 years ago. How do we clean up an estate that was never properly probated?

The answer depends largely on who the beneficiary or beneficiaries of your mother's estate were.

Retirement Weekly: What’s your best decade? 3 retirement lessons from a 67-year-old songwriter

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: Biden hails latest jobs report, knocks Trump for leaving ‘with fewer jobs than when he entered’

President Joe Biden talks up the encouraging August jobs report while also attacking Donald Trump as the 2024 White House race ramps up.

Market Extra: ‘Near perfect’ jobs report has traders betting Fed is done hiking rates this year

Friday's official U.S. jobs report produces a less deeply-negative Treasury curve.

The Moneyist: Can I ask my executor to pay off my mortgage? Should I download an online will?

"Because my in-laws are moving in with us, I would like them to inherit our home."

In One Chart: Fed rate hikes can end after U.S. job gains rival an economy ‘the size of Australia,’ says BlackRock

The Federal Reserve can look to end its inflation fight now that the labor market is cooling after gaining a historic 26 million jobs in the past three years, says BlackRock.

: Media stocks melt down as Spectrum feuds with Disney and ESPN: ‘We’re on the edge of a precipice’

The summer of media-industry disruptions continues with a carriage dispute between ESPN-owner Disney and Spectrum-operator Charter.

: Disney-Spectrum feud heats up as ESPN goes dark for college football and U.S. Open. Could the NFL be next?

Sports fans were unable to watch college football or the U.S. Open on Thursday night on Spectrum’s cable service.

Economic Report: Unemployment surge to 3.8% may be a summer-jobs mirage

The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to an 18-month high of 3.8% in August. Does that mean the economy is tottering and layoffs are rising? Ah, no. Here's why.

: Robinhood spent more than $600 million to buy back shares the U.S. government seized from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

Robinhood's stock rallied Friday after the trading app disclosed that it bought back the 55.3 million shares that had been seized by the U.S. government.
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