Personal Economics
  • How One Alzheimer’s Family Sealed the Deal

    By Wendy Aspuro, The Fiscal Times

    The 80-year-old man, a veteran of the Korean War who raised 6 children, won’t take his medication. He’s forgotten why he should. A liver transplant patient from over a decade ago, the man knows the...

  • Key U.S. official faces grilling over Obamacare website

    Key U.S. official faces grilling over Obamacare website

    By David Morgan and Susan Cornwell, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two months before the troubled October 1 launch of Obamacare exchanges, a key administration official overseeing the program assured a congressional oversight panel that work...

  • Exclusive: Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test

    Exclusive: Aiming to avoid Facebook chaos, NYSE runs Twitter IPO test

    By John McCrank, Reuters

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday did a test run of Twitter's highly anticipated market debut, as it seeks to avoid the types of problems that plagued Facebook's initial...

  • After tough week, White House buys time for Obamacare website fix

    After tough week, White House buys time for Obamacare website fix

    By Steve Holland and Roberta Rampton, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama promised on Saturday that his troubled healthcare website was just weeks away from a cure as he struggled to convince Americans he is on top of what has...

  • Kurdish fighters seize Syrian border post from Islamists

    By Reuters

    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, fighters and monitors said, after three days of clashes with an al Qaeda-linked group...