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See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. The Armenians may be viewed by outsiders as a somewhat melancholy people. You’d be, too, if you went through what they did. It’s a …

In our regular column about Bitcoin, we follow the growing pains of a new type of digital currency, sometimes called cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has experienced ups and downs lately, mainly down. …

Imagine living in a place where there is no government, no regulation, no taxation, and certainly no objections to anything that will alter your mind. It’s a place beyond the …

Your retirement is approaching in a few years, and as things now shape up, you won’t have nearly enough money to live on.  How could this have happened?  You’ve been …

Since the advent of cell phones and the mobile Internet, workers have been freed from the confines of an office — and work in coffee shops, hotel business centers, airport …

“We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.” — Sam Tanenhaus Just look at you – aren’t you something? Fifty-five, with a …

In Venezuela, government forces resorted to deadly violence to put down anti-government protests on Thursday, “a spasm of violence that’s unlike anything the country has experienced since 1989,” according to an …

Most people are aware that the Great Recession of 2008 was triggered by sub-prime lending, what those of us in the real estate industry called a “no-doc” loan, also called …

We’ve all suspected North Korea had something unsettling occurring behind the scenes — but now the evidence is piling up. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights, established by the …

Bitcoin values slid again in the wake of hacking facilitated by a flaw in the digital currency’s central software systems. If that wasn’t enough, government regulators are moving ahead on …