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A standalone HBO Go service is the holy grail for cordcutters. It means liberation from cable forever. It's never going to happen. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes just told his investors in no uncertain terms that cordcutters don't exist, and that forcing people to pay for cable to get HBO will work. Sadly, he's probably right. According to Bewkes, the idea that people hate cable and can't wait to get rid of it is a myth. We'd like to think that everyone's content to just settle into a service like Netflix, but the numbers aren't there to support that theory. Check out this doozy of a quote from the Time Warner chief: But the whole idea that there's a lot of people out there that want to drop multichannel TV, and just have a Netflix or an HBO - that's not right. Look for the data, you won't find them. But won't Time Warner pretty please let us just subscribe to HBO Go alone? We don't care about getting the Food Network! We just want Game of ...

Photo: Jackie Booley Jackie Booley (right) is living out a different retirement than she planned. Ask 67-year-old Jackie Booley about life after retirement, and  within minutes her story paints an all-too familiar picture of the challenges faced by today's older workers: Widowed in 2006 after 42 years of marriage, Booley retired from her 15-year career as a call center specialist at AT&T. With a healthy $120,000 in her retirement account, she decided it was time to ride out her savings and leave her desk job behind. But a year into her newfound freedom, 2008's stock market crash turned half her savings to dust. "I was taking supplements from my 401(k), plus the Social Security my husband left me, but it wasn't quite enough (to live on)," Booley said. In the end, she wound up with only one viable option––going back to the workforce she'd left less than two years before. She's certainly not alone. Eighty-six percent of workers in their 60s say they will...