News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Low interest rates leave savers with few good options, (2) Ant Challenged Beijing and Prospered. Now It Toes the Line., (3) The Idea That Raising Wages Destroys Value Is A Fallacy, (4) Is it time to forget what you learned about investing in bonds? (5) IRS Announces 2021 Retirement Plan Contribution Limits For 401(k)s And More, and Bonus article - Ghost Stories of Tripadvisor is a dreadful directory of hotel hauntings

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) America Has Lost Its Taste for Iceberg Lettuce, (2) The Best Pastries Are Now Being Sold Via Instagram, (3) Mainstreaming MMT, (4) Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis, (5) The Short Tenure and Abrupt Ouster of Banking’s Sole Black C.E.O., and Bonus article - The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Sizing Up the Rural-Urban Travel Divide: Who’s Up and Who’s Down, (2) The anti-Spotify: How online music company Bandcamp became the toast of the COVID age, (3) Are markets in a bubble because traders live in one?, (4) Biden’s Tax Plan Would Spur Economic Growth, (5) Small investors have pushed big companies toward social change. A new SEC rule will limit their influence, (6) I Had Lost All Hope’: Clorox Wipes Are Still the Hard-to-Find Pandemic Item, and Bonus article - HEARTBREAKER - To women in search of love, Shaun Rootenberg seemed like a catch. What they didn’t know: he’d spent decades stealing from just about anyone who crossed his path.

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News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) ArcelorMittal to Sell Steel Business in U.S. to Cleveland-Cliffs, (2) BTS to become multi-millionaires after label goes public, (3) How Stories Drive Financial Behavior--and What to Do About It, (4) Destruction of value in US real estate revealed, (5) Bonds Are Beating Stocks in Topsy-Turvy 2020, and Bonus article - Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but the ecosystem may suffer.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) No Job, Loads of Debt: Covid Upends Middle-Class Family Finances, (2) Coronavirus crisis caused 40% of parents to change their job situation, survey finds, (3) Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke, (4) Brooklyn Museum to Sell 12 Works as Pandemic Changes the Rules, (5) Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm - WSJ, and Bonus article - Black Entrepreneur Gets Saucy, Signs Deals with 30 Grocery Stores.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Exxon Used to Be America’s Most Valuable Company. What Happened?, (2) ANALYSIS-Nvidia acquisition of Arm throws company into tech spat between U.S. and China, (3) Medicaid rolls swell amid the pandemic’s historic job losses, straining state budgets, (4) Military Forced Into Payroll Tax Deferral; 1.3 Million Can’t Opt-Out, (5) The Biggest Money Mistakes People Make in a Recession, (6) A Free Market Manifesto That Changed the World, Reconsidered, and Bonus article - Chuck E. Cheese wants to destroy about 7 billion prize tickets amid bankruptcy.

News from the Control Tower: Our weekly curated list of news stories affecting you and your finances. This week's reads include: (1) Evans of the Chicago Fed worried about politics effecting the economy, (2) Farm cash receipts to hit a decade-law, (3) Financial firms failing to disclose misdeeds, (4) Chief of the Atlanta Fed Bostic rethinking the Fed mandate, (5) Broadway's sturggle to come back, and Bonus article on a San Diego icon - a doctor who quit his practice to pursue rollerblading very, very slowly.

Interesting reads this week include: (1) Female Fund Managers Beat Men at Stock Picks: Goldman; (2) IRS guidelines put employers on the hook for Trump's payroll tax break; (3) Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals; (4) Walmart Tries Again to Find Its Answer to Amazon Prime; (5) Boeing making slow progress toward fixing software problems that plagued its 2019 Starliner test; and a Bonus - The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen

The coronavirus crisis has changed the economy and the way you invest in it. Does that make your 401(k) or 403(b) investments out of date? Here are three tips with action items to help you update your account today.