When the state paid, people stopped smoking: study

When the state paid, people stopped smoking: study

When Massachusetts started paying for stop-smoking treatments, people not only kicked the habit but also had fewer heart attacks, researchers reported on Tuesday in the first study to show a clear payoff from investing in smoking prevention efforts.

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How women can invest smarter

Women do invest differently from men, says Manisha Thakor. They have some inherent advantages â€" including a sceptical tendency to ask questions about investment ideas they don’t understand, and a tendency to gravitate toward “buy and hold” investing that saves on the trading cost of higher churn.

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In these markets, silver wins by default

Speculative investing has pushed silver prices to heights unseen in decades, a sign of the fear pervading markets as investors seek out anything that will preserve value amid economic shocks

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