A new report from the MetLife Mature Market Institute reveals that older Americans are losing $2.9 billion annually to elder financial abuse, an increase of 12 percent over estimates reported in 2008. “The MetLife Study of Elder Financial Abuse: Crimes of Occasion, Desperation and Predation Against America’s Elders” also reports that crimes committed by strangers [...]

Over the last decade, gold has gained well over 300% in value. That’s what it does: It goes up and down depending on how much is available (and the amount they’re pulling out of the ground each year stopped growing some time ago) and how much commercial and investor demand there is for it at [...]