MARKETWATCH Top News

• : There are six types of retirees — which are you?
  Everyone transitions to retirement differently.
• Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: After Capitol insurrection and fallout, it is time for new laws for social media
  Last week's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has led to the biggest reckoning in the history of the internet, and will likely be a tipping point for new regulation of American social-media companies.
• Outside the Box: So much of retirement planning is wishful thinking — what I’ve learned after 3 years of actually being retired
  Your priorities won’t magically change, so start owning those goals now
• Market Snapshot: Biden’s ‘rescue America’ plan is big. How its trillions could help both Wall Street and Main Street
  President-elect Joe Biden's proposal to spent another $1.9 trillion to help fight the pandemic and its shocks is putting Wall Street on inflation-watch. But investors say the U.S. economy and financial markets would be worse off without it.
• The Moneyist: My son inherited money after his father was killed in an accident. A woman came forward with another legal heir. What now?
  ‘After exhausting all efforts and suing me personally, she is left with no legal avenues. She has now asked if the two can have a relationship.’
• The Moneyist: My wife found a half brother through Ancestry.com. Are we morally or ethically obligated to share her father’s estate?
  ‘The whole family seemed genuinely excited to finally find information on his biological father, after years of searching with no real leads.’
• The Moneyist: ‘They get free money’: People will receive more stimulus payments and unemployment insurance. Why is there no accountability?
  ‘I’ve heard of one case where a young adult purchased a ‘new’ used car with cash. Another one is approaching the $13,000 mark in savings from unemployment.’
• Key Words: For some, Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan is a ‘lifeline’ — and couldn’t come a moment too soon
  President-elect Biden said he will call for $1,400 stimulus checks and more vaccine funds in a new coronavirus economic relief package when he takes office this month.
• NewsWatch: Biden’s ‘rescue America’ plan is big. How its trillions could help both Wall Street and Main Street
  President-elect Joe Biden's proposal to spent another $1.9 trillion to help fight the pandemic and its shocks is putting Wall Street on inflation-watch. But investors say the U.S. economy and financial markets would be worse off without it.
• ‘Deaths of despair’ during COVID-19 have risen significantly in 2020, new research says
  They were disproportionately experienced by working aged men, driven in part by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to Casey Mulligan, professor of economics at the University of Chicago.