Finance
Gold Price Today: Why Your Jewelry Won’t Fetch the Headline Number
A quoted gold price needs a currency, unit and purity. Here is the arithmetic behind a more realistic conversation with a buyer.
Money, markets & everyday decisions
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Consumer Watch
Newegg’s Black Friday Price Protection Has a Doorbuster-Sized Exception
Newegg’s holiday promotion is underway. Doorbusters are excluded, competing retailers don’t count, and some eligibility wording deserves a closer look.
Housing & Cost of Living
Queens Isn’t New York’s Affordable Escape Hatch
When the advice is always “move somewhere cheaper,” it helps to ask whether that somewhere still exists.