Month: October 2020

Billionaire investor Ron Baron, who says his stake in Tesla has made his firm 10 times its original investment, told CNBC on Wednesday that he expects similar growth from Elon Musk’s space company. “SpaceX I think has a chance to be just as large as Tesla,” Baron said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Baron’s investment firm holds
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Prisoners are getting a second chance at receiving the $1,200 stimulus checks the government sent this spring. Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently ruled that the government should not withhold those checks from people solely because they are incarcerated. There are roughly 1.5 million incarcerated
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Kevin O’Leary Scott Mlyn | CNBC Investor Kevin O’Leary knows firsthand the challenges entrepreneurs on Main Street are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. Many are struggling to survive to economic shutdowns and the rapid shift to the digital economy. “Twenty percent of the small private companies in my portfolio are going to fail,” he said
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In this photo illustration the Internal Revenue Service (IRS… SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Regulators all over the world are struggling to come up with an effective tax policy for virtual currency transactions. Recently, the IRS was scrutinized by the government watchdog, The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), about this very issue. A
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Can preflight testing get people flying again? The International Air Transport Association (IATA) thinks so. Last month, the trade association, which represents some 290 airlines around the world, called for the “development and deployment of rapid, accurate, affordable, easy-to-operate, scalable and systematic” Covid-19 testing for all passengers as a way to restore passenger confidence, bypass
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about how retroactive filing affects benefit rates, when spousal benefits may be available and whether it’s possible or advisable to take a retirement benefit before a survivor’s benefit. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic Security Planning,
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Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing in Washington, D.C. Erin Scot | Pool | Reuters Health officials have struggled to convey the seriousness of Covid-19 to many Americans. President Trump’s rapid recovery from the disease, while welcome by
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