Retirement strategies: Make careful decissions where you want to live when you retire.

If you are 65 or over, and looking for the ideal country to retire in, what should be the main criteria, experts say, you should be looking at ? A) Political stability B) Low crime rate C) Economic stability D) Good affordable Health Care E) Excellent Public Transportation Network F) Family proximity within 24 hr time frame, including flight time, and easy ability to make friends with locals G) No language barriers H) Seasonal Climate (Spring,Summer, Autumn and Winter - without extreme temperatures) However, DON'T MOVE from your present location if the above criteria is already available there where you are.

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USA: ‘Wartime President’? Trump Rewrites History in an Election Year - The New York Times

With the US economy faltering and the political landscape unsettled as the coronavirus death toll climbs, a stark and unavoidable question now confronts President Trump and his advisers: Can he save his campaign for re-election when so much is suddenly going so wrong?‘

After three years of Republicans’ championing signs of financial prosperity that were to be Mr. Trump’s chief re-election argument, the president has never needed a new message to voters as he does now, not to mention luck. At this point, the president has one clear option for how to proceed politically, and is hoping that an array of factors will break his way.

The option, which he has brazenly pushed in recent days, is to cast himself as a “wartime president” who looks in charge of a nation under siege while his likely Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., is largely out of sight hunkered down in Delaware. This gambit, however, requires a rewriting of history — Mr. Trump’s muted approach to the virus early on — and it’s far from clear if many voters will accept the idea of him as a wartime leader.

Then there are other variables that he and his allies hope will fall in their favor: that the outbreak of the virus will slow and, in the warmer months, dissipate; that the states will get it under control; that the federal government’s steps taken so far will flatten the curve; that Mr. Biden and the Democrats will look impotent and inconsequential by comparison; and that enough voters will move past his initial efforts to play down the virus’s dangers

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Brexit: EU offers Britain a variety of optipns tp cleanup their act

EU offers UK Brexit extension options, initially to April 12

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Financial Markets - Insight: When options trading ahead of deals raises eyebrows

Within 36 hours of Warren Buffett’s announcement of a deal to buy H.J. Heinz, U.S. authorities froze an account linked to possible insider trading.

The speed of the crackdown on a lucrative options bet, combined with successful prosecutions of insider trading rings, suggested that regulators were quickly jumping on any suspicious activity.

Yet some veterans of the options business are unconvinced. They worry that very profitable options trading ahead of big corporate news is undermining investor confidence in the fairness of markets.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced litigation or enforcement action for alleged insider trading involving options trading in two of these companies – Heinz (HNZ.N) and Shaw Group, a nuclear power plant builder acquired by Chicago Bridge & Iron (CBI.N) for $3 billion. Neither Heinz nor Chicago Bridge & Iron would comment on the trading.

When asked for comment, an SEC spokesman said the options market “has been and will continue to be an area of focus,” adding that a “simple search of the SEC website will show many, many insider trading enforcement actions involving options.”

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