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After years of favoring online and telephone scams, a number of crooks are drifting back to old-fashioned theft involving paper checks. In the last year, a number of individuals, including employees of the U.S. Postal Service, have been arrested or indicted for stealing paper tax refund checks. Over $3 million of such check thefts were discovered in one New York congressional district. Also, there’s been an increase in reported thefts of tax refund and Social Security benefit checks around the country. Congressional representatives in New York and Georgia have asked the IRS and USPS inspectors general to fully investigate the…

This article was written byFollowJustin Law has a Ph.D in Chemistry from Rice University and has earned the CFA Institute Investment Foundations certificate. He applies his knowledge to deep value and dividend paying stocks.Justin is a contributor to the investing group The Dividend Kings where he curates the Dividend Champions list, a monthly publication of companies with a history of consistently increasing their dividends. The Dividend Kings is a group of analysts teaching individuals how to invest more wisely in dividend stocks. Learn More.Analyst’s Disclosure: I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of SRE, MDT, DOX, ELV, FNF,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Mexico’s ruling party chose the son of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for a senior role on Sunday, in a sign the leftist leader will continue to influence public life after he steps down.López Obrador is in his final weeks of a six-year term that has polarised Mexican politics and concentrated legislative power in his party. His handpicked successor, former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, will replace him as president in October.In a conference centre in the capital on Sunday, Sheinbaum and…

Careful research done by Ph.D economists conclude we face a huge retirement shortfall. We are about eight to nine years away from Social Security’s inability to pay full benefits; all boomers are past age 60, and the typical Gen Y and Millennial is predicted to do a little worse or much worse than the cohorts of their big brothers, sisters, and parents. The erosion in retirement security is worse for the bottom 60% or so of the earnings distribution. Yes, it’s a crisis. Early boomers at the top of the income distribution have benefited from run-ups in the stock market,…

This article was written byFollowRida Morwa is a former investment and commercial Banker, with over 35 years of experience. He has been advising individual and institutional clients on high-yield investment strategies since 1991. Rida Morwa leads the Investing Group High Dividend Opportunities where he teams up with some of Seeking Alpha’s top income investing analysts. The service focuses on sustainable income through a variety of high yield investments with a targeted safe +9% yield. Features include: model portfolio with buy/sell alerts, preferred and baby bond portfolios for more conservative investors, vibrant and active chat with access to the service’s leaders,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Elon Musk has backed down and complied with a Brazilian judge’s orders that he appoint a legal representative for X, according to court documents, paving the way for the restoration of the social media site in the country following a weeks-long ban.X was banned in Brazil late last month amid an escalating feud between the billionaire and Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes, who had demanded the site remove accounts linked to far-right individuals and groups.Musk refused to do so and shuttered…

Many retirees are finding that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and they’re returning to work in some way. In fact, the number is in the millions, as indicated by the results of a recent survey of retirees conducted by T. Rowe Price. They report that 1.5 million retirees had reentered the workforce as of March 2022, following a retirement during the pandemic. As a result of this development, “unretirement” has been added to the retirement lexicon as a phenomenon in the ever-evolving world of retirement strategies. Let’s dig into the details to see if unretirement might make…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The head of Boeing’s defence business is leaving the company after years of losses from fixed-price contracts and a high-profile debacle with its space capsule that left two astronauts in space.Chief executive Kelly Ortberg said in a memo to employees on Friday that Ted Colbert, who has run Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security arm since 2022, would depart the company “effective immediately”. A Boeing spokeswoman said Colbert was opting to leave.Colbert’s exit is the first change in the company’s executive ranks since…

More and more households led by someone age 55 or older have debt, according to recent research from the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI). In 1992, 53.8% of older households had debt. But the percentage steadily increased from 1998 through 2019 before dropping a little from 2019 to 2022, the latest year for which data is available. In 2022, 66.8% of older households had debt. Overall, the older the head of the household is the less likely the household is to have debt. In 2022 in families in which the head was 55-64, 77.2% had debt. That drops to 64.8%…