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Sudden money can be exciting, but many people who receive windfalls end up squandering them. Retaining and protecting wealth is a skill set many haven’t learned yet, and inexperienced wealth builders ...

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Researchers studied two lizard types and found that heat rewrites their breeding biology. Madagascar's Guibé's ground gecko ...

There are two entirely reasonable responses to this. One is to worry about the new inheritocracy harming society: how it could corrode incentives to work, say, or widen inequality and distort the ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here's how I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for ...