The number of 401(k) participants taking hardship distributions increased 36% year over year, Bank of America said Aug. 8. Still, contributions remained steady and average balances are up, the bank ...
Diogenes in his jar, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1860). Source: Wikicommons/public domain After being exiled from his native Sinope for having defaced its coinage, Diogenes the Cynic moved to Athens, took up ...
In the deep winter, Diogenes the Cynic (d. 323 BCE) would strip naked and embrace bronze statues. One day, upon seeing this, a Spartan asked him whether he was cold. When he said that he was not, the ...