Old-Age Poverty

During a Wednesday “town hall” hosted by CNN regarding “climate change,” Sanders accepted the premise of population growth on Earth being “unsustainable,” requiring government controls over procreation. Sanders’s proposal, said King, reminded her of the 1973…

Fewer children, distant relatives or friends, and an increasing plurality of family models are factors that impact on the availability of support and care in old age. Tiziana Nazio, a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, has explored how early …

Fewer children, distant relatives or friends, and an increasing plurality of family models: These factors impact on the availability of support and care in old age. Tiziana Nazio, a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, has explored how early fa…

My readers know me as a value investor with a business-owner mindset, who prefer to invest based on the underlying fundamentals of individual companies, own them for the long run, and ride out any intermediate macro distractions. This investing mindset gener…

Baby boomers are the fastest-growing age group in the U.S. By 2029, the national population of those aged 65 and over will be 20 percent of the country. What would an age justice platform look like so that elders could age with dignity? Today’s guests have so…

(Bloomberg) -- Eiffel Tower-sized cranes are digging deep into one of Europes largest lignite mines outside, as Ulrich Freese shakes his head and blows another cloud of cigar smoke into the room. Anger and despair are running high ahead of Sundays state elec…

Is it unthinkable to link well-being to The Blues?  When you are blue, sadness rifles through every aspect of your being.  In a state of the blues, you feel lost, alone, depleted and depressed. Maybe your partner has been unfaithful and has left you for anoth…

Hours before the first debate of the 2020 Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders was preparing in a hotel conference room in Miami. He pored over briefing books and talked strategy with his aides. Then he got on the phone with Cardi B. At one point during his F…

Hours before the first debate of the 2020 Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders was preparing in a hotel conference room in Miami. He pored over briefing books and talked strategy with his aides. Then he got on the phone with Cardi B. At one point during his F…

POLITICO illustration/AP Photo Hours before the first debate of the 2020 Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders was preparing in a hotel conference room in Miami. He pored over briefing books and talked strategy with his aides. Then he got on the phone with Ca…