boomers

Duane Flemming and his wife, Chris Currie, would like to downsize.The retired couple has spent 41 years in their four-bedroom house in a suburban community 30 miles east of San Francisco. The two-story home has gotten too big for them, and the stairs are more difficult to navigate these days.…

Maybe this holiday season won’t be so lean after all.Despite early predictions that shoppers would cut spending as they bought gifts this year, a PwC report released Tuesday shows that consumers have upped their spending plans by 7% since June.PwC’s Holiday Sentiment survey, conducted by the Big Four firm in…