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By Dori Zinn, Bankrate.com

Whether you were forced out of the workforce due to downsizing, a recession or other reasons, you might’ve retired thinking you were done with work for good. But unretirement might change that, whether it’s because you need the money, you miss the social engagement or some other reason entirely.

You don’t have to stop working at some magical age. Even if you don’t want to go back to what you were doing before retirement, you can find meaningful, paying work. Here’s how to know if unretirement is right for you.

What is unretirement?

Unretirement is leaving retirement to return to work, for whatever reason. Some workers might have been forced to retire early due to the COVID-19 pandemic, or a company downsizing might’ve made them believe they can’t work anymore. But that’s not always the case.

Unretirement means you don’t have to stay retired. With the rising cost of what seems like everything, you might be forced back to work even if you were comfortable in retirement. And with 7.6 million open jobs right now, you can explore new ways to work even if you had previously thought you were done working for good. read more

By JESSE BEDAYN

The Trump administration has stalled at least $60 million in funding intended largely for affordable housing developments nationwide, throwing hundreds of projects into a precarious limbo, according to information and documents obtained by The Associated Press

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve is likely to keep its key interest rate unchanged in the coming months as it waits for widespread “uncertainty” stemming from President Donald Trump’s policies to resolve, Chair Jerome Powell said in written remarks to be delivered Friday in New York.

By STAN CHOE

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose on Friday, but only after careening through another wild day. It was a fitting ending to a brutal week of scary swings dominated by worries about the U.S. economy and uncertainty about what President Donald Trump will do with tariffs.

By ALAN SUDERMAN, Associated Press Business Writer

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a government reserve of bitcoin, a key marker in the cryptocurrency’s journey towards possible mainstream acceptance.

Under Trump’s new order, the U.S. government will retain the estimated 200,000 bitcoin it’s already seized in criminal and civil proceedings, according to Trump’s “crypto czar” David Sacks.

“The U.S. will not sell any bitcoin deposited into the Reserve. It will be kept as a store of value. The Reserve is like a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency often called ‘digital gold,’” Sacks said on social media.

The executive order calls for a “full accounting” of the government’s bitcoin holdings, which Sacks said have never been fully audited. He added that the U.S. government has previously sold off about 195,000 bitcoin over the last decade for $366 million. He said those bitcoins would be worth about $17 billion if the government hadn’t sold them. read more