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...founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, Ben Cohen once told me he will give most of his tens of millions to charity and leave just $1 million to his daughter, a nice cushion but not enough to live well on without working. Other rich folks, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have similar plans to spare their heirs what wealth advisers call "affluenza," an affliction that was fleetingly pandemic during the dotcom daze. Wealth doctors have lost a few patients since then. But even as stocks have slumped, home prices have swelled. Household net worth is down only...
...RAISED DRIVER'S SEAT A seat cushion will raise a driver to an appropriate height where the eye level is roughly even with the bottom of the rearview mirror...
...much as possible in their 401(k)s--says if Caldwell made a mistake, it was probably by putting money into a 401(k) in the first place. What many people forget is that you need to pay down your credit-card debt and build up your emergency cushion first. Otherwise when a need for cash arises, you end up raiding your retirement account and paying penalties and taxes on every dime you withdraw. Blandin advises that if you have an inkling you'll want to use your savings to go back to school or buy a first house, stashing...
...couldn't find a job. My older brother got laid off. My mom got divorced. I lost a friend in the World Trade Center. I do want to start saving again. But I'm going to pay my credit-card debt down first and get an emergency cushion. Because you never know when something crazy is going to happen...
...Duke tally with seven minutes expired in the second quarter restored the Devils’ four-goal cushion. But then, at the 7:34 mark, the rest of the Harvard team finally got into the act, as juniors Doug Logigian and Matt Primm scored back-to-back unassisted goals to close out the half...