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...condolences that flooded Schulz's office after news of his retirement from "Peanuts" and then crested over into his household after his death are dominated by a single refrain: The handwritten response I received from Charles Schulz at a critical moment in my development changed forever the course of my life. He influenced two generations of comic strip artists, standup comedians and readers everywhere. But unlike other seminal figures of American mass culture in the 1960s and '70s - Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol - Schulz had no itch to be a teacher, a guru, a manufacturer of lesser artists...
...could read it that way. His comments prominently mentioned a reverse wealth effect stemming from falling share prices. "Weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending," Greenspan warned. Such softening could, in turn, lead to a recession--clearly something the esteemed chairman of the Federal Reserve would want to head...
JUNIOR FIX-ITS Children as young as eight are replacing parents as the modern household's repair experts. New surveys show that the technological generation gap between adults who grew up with simpler appliances and the e-generation of computer-game-literate kids has grown to the point where three out of four parents admit that they depend on their children to program new phones and stop VCR clocks from blinking...
...limit for annual contributions to a Roth or traditional IRA could be raised from $2,000 to $5,000 and for 401(k) plans from $10,500 to $15,000. There's a decent chance that the income ceiling to be eligible for a Roth ($160,000 per household, $110,000 for singles) would be indexed to inflation...
...million Palestinians--a third of the population--now without regular household income...