What is better: living in debt or saving for old age? Money is always a problem. What is more profitable: take a loan from a bank to buy an apartment and be in debt for 20 years, or invest part of your salary every month to save up for housing and rent it in the meantime? What is better: to live for your own pleasure, without denying yourself anything, or, tightening your belt, saving for old age?

Irina Rapoport did not want to treat the teeth of rich people - she decided that it was better to manage their millions Director for Private Clients at Renaissance Capital Asset Management (RCAM), Irina Rapoport, annually flies to the Russian Economic Forum in London. No, she does not make presentations there at plenary sessions and does not lead discussions at round tables.

Items of famous criminals are a very strange choice for a collector. Although with them everything is like with ordinary antiques: prices are high, and there are countless fakes Fleeing the law during the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow, one of the famous gangsters known as Bonnie and Clyde, is said to have written a letter to Henry Ford: “I choose a Ford whenever I need to get away quickly.

How can the state avoid falling into euphoria from current super-incomes? Russia has probably never had such an amount of material resources as it does now. The extremely favorable global situation evokes a feeling of well-being, if not euphoria. The main thing is not to lose a sense of reality and be guided by common sense. Otherwise, the abundance of an unconditional good will turn into an equally obvious evil.

This wine is a symbol of freethinking, decadence and the perfect drink for summer. At some point, I don’t even know exactly when, champagne ceased to be wine and became an image. At the next wedding? At the Royal Ascot Hippodrome, among the top hats and hats with ribbons? At the celebration of the launch of the ship? Or in the hands of Schumacher in a red overall after another victory in the Grand Prix race?

Who actually writes scripts for popular TV series? It's hard to come up with a good joke. It's even more difficult to come up with jokes in bulk, for example for a television series stretched over a hundred episodes. Alexander Akopov, president of the production company "AMedia" (TV series "Don't Be Born Beautiful", "My Fair Nanny", etc.), found an original way out of the situation.

Poor Americans are always complaining about the health care system. Why suffer? Michael Gorton came up with an alternative Entrepreneur Michael Gorton is looking for people like David and Elani Devitt. They are ideal clients for his business, TelaDoc Medical Services, which provides physician consultations over the phone. David is a traveling salesman and does not have corporate health insurance.

Here's the plot: four guys from Silicon Valley start a small company called PayPal, grow it, then sell it to Ebay, become millionaires, and go to Hollywood to become movie producers. The tape becomes a hit. Let’s say this “hit” is still a matter of the future. But the film "Smoking Here," produced by David O. Sachs, illustrates a new trend in Silicon Valley: computer industry professionals, having earned millions, are trying their hand at Hollywood.

Can fresh ham last 120 days and strawberries be sold in invisible packaging? Yes, this is no longer fantasy Lucia Klansek wanted her son to take apples or bananas with him to basketball practice, but the fruit always got wrinkled in his backpack. She gave him juice - it quickly became warm. However, this teenager is lucky: Lucia is not just a caring mother, she is a great expert in the field of packaging.

Economic science is now “excommunicated” from the state. But it seems that soon scientists will again sit down to write programs for the country’s development International rating agencies cannot get enough of Russia's macroeconomic indicators, and among experts there is growing concern: the more favorable the situation, the less the government is interested in a meaningful discussion about economic development models.

The exchange must change July 1918 “The sooner the New York Stock Exchange recognizes the need - both for the country and for itself - to attract many small investors, the better. An institution that deals only with people willing to pay at least $10,000 for a block of stocks or bonds will inevitably be viewed by the public as a champion of the interests of the plutocracy.” Sex was and will be!

Don King brought the ring fighting industry to perfection. Now he wants to introduce the world to at least one great fighter Who knows the names of champion boxers now? The kids in the schoolyard are no longer trying to be like the new title holder; women in beauty salons do not faint looking at photographs of yet another macho in the ring. Boxing fans haven't seen truly great fights for a long time.

On the ban on the import and sale of Georgian wines Tbilisi. Spring. In front of the Russian Embassy, ​​students pour Putinka vodka into the toilet. This is how they protest against the ban on the import and sale of wines from Georgia introduced on March 27 by the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko. But the students chose the wrong vodka.

photo Kommersant Billionaire MP Suleiman Kerimov seeks Warren Buffett's fame. What can stop him? “Dear Suleiman Abusaidovich! Sorry for asking... I read in the newspaper that the singer Shakira received $1 million for performing at your party... Could you provide our family with financial assistance...". Letters of this kind arrive in batches to the reception room of the richest deputy of the State Duma, Suleiman Kerimov .

The Velomotors company did not reinvent the wheel - they were the first in Russia to master assembly from imported components The bicycle market in Sokolniki is full of people - from May to July the demand is especially high. The names dazzle your eyes: Track, Gary Fisher, Merida, Stark, Forward, Stels. The last three brands are Russian assembly from Asian parts. A woman meticulously examines the Stels model. “Take it,” the seller encourages.