Three years ago, two companies, Tishman Speyer Properties and Black Rock Realty, bought Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, an iconic post-war housing complex that is home to 25,000 tenants, many of them with rent-controlled apartments. Last month, in what one observer called “the poster child for the entire housing bubble,” the deal [...]

In the process of researching yesterday’s post on the lack of Social Security cost of living increasing, we found Social Security News, maintained by a law firm that deals with Social Security Disability. Anyone interested in the minutiae of the giant bureaucracy that is the Social Security system will find oodles of information here, such [...]

For senior citizens, it’s going to be an UnCOLA year. From CNNMoney: There will be no cost-of-living increase (COLA) for 57 million Social Security beneficiaries next year because consumer prices have fallen, the Social Security Administration announced on Thursday. It marks the first time that Social Security benefits have not been increased year over year [...]