Her Ex-Husband Is Funding Her Retirement and He Has No Idea: Social Security’s 10-Year Divorce Rule Pays From His Record Without Touching His Check or His Mailbox
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A 10-year marriage entitles divorced spouses to 50% of an ex’s Social Security at full retirement age, and he never gets notified and loses nothing.
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Deemed filing rules apply to anyone born after January 1, 1954, automatically triggering all eligible benefits at once and ending the grow-to-70 spousal strategy.
Trump demands the Fed lower interest rates after a blowout August jobs report
Donald Trump is once again turning up the heat on the Federal Reserve.The president fired off a fresh request for the central bank to lower interest rates in a post on Truth Social on Friday. This time, the catalyst was the blockbuster month the US job market had in August, with the economy adding 162,000 payrolls,
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Millions of Americans receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income could see higher monthly payments in 2027 as the annual cost of living adjustment takes effect.AARP currently estimates the 2027 COLA at 3.5 percent, although the final figure won’t be announced until October 14 after September inflation data is released.President Trump sparks theories with latest video showing an odd shape on his rear endThe increase will apply across Social Security retirement,
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Volkswagen Factory to Become Defense Plant in Deal With Israel’s Aurelius
Under the deal, investment company Aurelius would take over the plant as majority owner, together with the state of Lower Saxony.
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CXMT Highlights Smartphone, AI Advances as Market Share Climbs
The Chinese memory-chip maker sought to reassure investors that it is gaining ground in higher-end memory markets,
Read MoreNvidia: New Upside Catalysts Emerge And Why I'm Raising My Target
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AppLovin’s Rally Hits a Rough Patch
After an extraordinary run that sent shares soaring nearly 300% over the past year, AppLovin suddenly lost momentum in early October. The sell-off came as a shock to investors who had watched the ad-tech company become one of Wall Street’s brightest stars.
The trigger was a Bloomberg report revealing that the SEC had opened an investigation into AppLovin’s data-collection practices.
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Why Did Buffett Buy Google?
When Berkshire Hathaway showed up with a new position in Alphabet, more than a few eyebrows went up. Alphabet, after all, is pursuing everything from autonomous driving to quantum computing, hardly the plain-vanilla playbook Buffett made famous.
But once you dig in, the move becomes far less mysterious. Alphabet is still, above all else,
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Buffett Would Love This Moat, Freeport’s Hidden Growth Engine
In the short run, tariff headlines can turn Mr. Market into a nervous wreck. In the long run, owners do fine by owning scarce, low-cost assets run by rational people. Freeport-McMoRan fits that bill.
U.S. copper prices sold off after Washington excluded refined copper from its new 50% tariffs and instead targeted semi-finished products like wire,
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