Scottish journalist, author, and poet, Charles Mackay (1814-1889), is best known for his study of crowd psychology and his tome, “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,” published in 1841.His descriptions of “delusions, follies, and bubbles” illustrate once again French w…

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I’m not sure what the big deal is about the cat in Mum’s cozy mysteries. I mean, she’s just a plain old black cat. Big deal. She may be sleek and pretty, but she can’t possibly be as stunning as I am. After all, I’m a calico, and that’s about the most special kind of cat there is. Just becau…

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Lewis Walker walks you through how to calculate what your "retirement number" should be.

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Writers have pegged 2021 as a “year of transition.” A transition is triggered by an event, planned or unplanned. A planned transition might be marriage, career change, retirement. An unplanned transition may be a death, health crisis, career setback. An unplanned event, COVID-19, impacted us all, forcing our economy and many of us to transition toward some form of new normal.