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Half of execs believe their skills will be obsolete in two years. The chair of the SEC thinks AI will spark a financial crisis. What does such concern or uncertainty mean for your future and your financial strategy?

How Will the Economy React to AI? What do concerns or uncertainty about AI mean for your future and your financial strategy?

Start building your child's financial future today with these key points to know about Roth IRAs.

Roth IRA for Kids Learn about the benefits and requirements of opening a Roth IRA for kids.

Timing Your Retirement This short video illustrates the importance of understanding sequence of returns risk.

As an investor, you’ll encounter times when volatility picks up and markets cycle lower. But if you’re approaching retirement, you may need to consider how a down-market could impact your next chapter.

Timing Your Retirement This short video illustrates the importance of understanding sequence of returns risk.

A lets you save for retirement by paying your tax bill now rather than putting it off until later.

How to Bake a Pie-R-A Roth IRAs are tax-advantaged differently from traditional IRAs. Do you know how?

Even low inflation rates can pose a threat to investment
returns.

Inflation and Your Portfolio Even low inflation rates can pose a threat to investment returns.

Wall Street has a lot of cliches. How many do you know?

16 Wall Street Cliches in 60 Seconds Pundits say a lot of things about the markets. Let's see if you can keep up.

Ready to retire, but not ready to stop working? Check out this video for a fresh way to look at encore career options.

Encore Careers: Push Your Boundaries Ready for retirement? Find out why many are considering encore careers and push your boundaries into something more, here.

This is where it all began. The Fertile Crescent. The cradle of civilization.

For the first 190,000 years or so of human existence, we roved about in small hunter-gatherer bands, eking out a subsistence living day to day, constantly in fear of predators and of other humans. But about 10,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq, some people decided to stay put. It is impossible to overstate the importance of that decision.

It was in the Fertile Crescent that agriculture began. Rather than wandering around searching for food in a constant state of warfare, humans began to plant seeds and grow their own crops. To store it they began building structures. To protect it they banded together in cooperation and mutual defense. Whereas before human societies were typically limited to a few dozen people, now villages arose—then towns, then cities. And humans flourished.

Here, in these early human settlements in the Fertile Crescent, humans first developed written language (probably to keep track of accounts). They domesticated animals. They invented the wheel, the plow, and multi-story architecture. Monotheistic religion arose. By about 2500 B.C. the first libraries were created. The things that we think of as characterizing “civilization” began here.

A few thousand years ago people from the Fertile Crescent fanned out into Europe and Asia, taking with them the knowledge accumulated there. And seeds and farm animals. The rest is history.

Of course, it wasn’t all pretty. We were still humans after all. Although social cooperation emerged on a scale that would have been previously unimaginable, violence and what we would now regard as superstition and injustice remained. But in the Fertile Crescent humans had taken an immensely important first step toward the flowering of the incredible civilization we enjoy today.

This video asks the right questions about how you can save money for retirement without sacrificing your quality of life.

Retirement and Quality of Life Asking the right questions about how you can save money for retirement without sacrificing your quality of life.

What do you think your will be like? Attitudes are changing, and many are working in their

Retirement Redefined Around the country, attitudes about retirement are shifting.