This is a rough mix of Paul Sullivan's piece on mid-career switchers who learn to code to air on Marketplace Morning Report March 24, 2014. Produced by Kerry Donahue.
Gold can certainly play a part in bulletproofing your portfolio, but it shouldn't be the end-all, be-all. That said there are plenty of gold bugs out there, hoarding sizable chunks of the precious metal. Actual gold, not just gold-related funds. New York Times Wealth Matters columnist Paul Sullivan has that story.
People are living longer with terminal illness. In addition to the often long painful process of dying, the costs for end-of-life care, even for those with insurance, can quickly deplete a life time's worth of savings and more. As part of our special series The New Health Care of Math, the New York Times' Paul Sullivan reports there are some ways you can prepare.
Now a story -- a somewhat complicated one -- about an all too common crisis, an elderly person whose life savings are stolen by a family member. Anna Mae Franklin learned about elder financial abuse the hard way. She's been caring for her 91-one-year-old brother Arthur Cropsey for the past couple of years; he suffers from dementia. Within a few months of Anna Mae moving Arthur into her home, she discovered her daughter had been spending his money. Anna Mae lives with her two small dogs in a mobile home just north of Albany, N.Y.
Through the 1990s, Patrick Quirke’s career was sailing along. Every few years, he would be promoted at the transportation company where he worked and move to another city. He said he had every reason to believe that he would be promoted to the company’s headquarters in a few more moves. Then, his parents’ health started to decline...