Margaux & Max has been able to stay afloat with Dinges’ Facebook livestreams and creative marketing, even while the retail store remains closed for in-person shopping. Photo: Je Donna Dinges Small business owners have faced a bit of whiplash over the last year as Covid-19 swept the nation, with restrictions leading to closings, reopenings and
Month: February 2021
Businesses around the country have been slow to evaluate, or quick to assume they are ineligible for, the 2021 Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”). The result: a significant amount of cash is still being paid to the Federal government when it could remain with companies that need it. In 2021 the maximum amount of ERC is $7,000
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 12: Chinese lanterns hang in Chinatown on February 12, 2021 in London, … [+] England. This year’s festivities, which usher in the Year of the Ox, take place whilst the United Kingdom remains in lockdown. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) Getty Images Today is the Lunar New Year, celebrated in China
Getty Images getty Are there charitable causes you feel strongly about that you want to support? Do you want to integrate philanthropy into your family life? Do you wonder which method of charitable giving is right for you? People often engage in charitable giving because they feel strongly about a specific cause and want to
Stimulus checks printed at the Philadelphia Financial Center in Philadelphia. Jeff Fusco | Getty Images As a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package comes together on Capitol Hill, millions of additional direct payments to Americans could be in the works. Legislation under discussion includes $1,400 stimulus checks that could bring the total direct payments sent to
A lab technician uses a single channel pipette dropper to test material during Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test processing at a laboratory in the Dunkeld suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Waldo Swiegers | Bloomberg | Getty Images Preliminary reports from South Africa show people who have recovered from Covid-19
Senator Amy Klobuchar speaks at the Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., February 7, 2020. Brian Snyder | Reuters There is growing hostility to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among an increasing number of policymakers in Washington, D.C. Last year, some in Congress called for a merger
Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban says new innovations and companies will come out of the pandemic, creating an “America 2.0,” as he calls it. “At the beginning of the pandemic, as awful as it’s been, I talked about companies that we’re going to look back [on] in 10 or 15 years that were created” during this
gradyreese | E+ | Getty Images One of my favorite movie quotes comes from “Gladiator,” as Maximus calls out to the crowd, “Are you not entertained?” In this new pandemic-focused world, it appears that we should be changing that to “Are you not engaged?” The topic of engagement is everywhere. At home, parents are seeking
Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City has been around for more than a century, maturing into an iconic institution on the Lower East Side. Owner Jake Dell told CNBC on Friday he feels the weight of family history as he seeks to navigate the uncertainty and disruption wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. “This is our
Travel concept. Blue and red passports background. 3d illustration getty In some circles 2020 became the year of the second passport. For a cool THB 10 million (about $334,000), Thailand is doling out residency to investors willing to build residential real estate. St. Kitts and Nevis slashed the cost of its golden visa by $45,000
Scott Shleifer (right) is one of the latest to move to Florida from New York City. Getty Images A home in Palm Beach, Florida has sold for $132 million, making it the second highest-priced single-family home on record for the U.S. The buyer was Scott Shleifer, cofounder of private equity investing arm of Tiger Global
By Margie Zable Fisher, Next Avenue Glen Muñoz, podcast producer Glen Muñoz Almost every day since the outbreak of the coronavirus, we’ve heard stories about businesses shutting down. Yet new businesses have also been launched during the pandemic at the fastest rate in over a decade, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some of these new
Sanders Fabares felt that something wasn’t working. Even after years of paying $1,000 a month toward his student loans and his wife’s, their balance hadn’t decreased by much. They still owed around $80,000, down from the $90,000 they’d originally borrowed. “I started trying to understand what we were doing wrong,” Fabares, 41, said. His research
McDonald’s Chicken Sandwich Source: McDonald’s McDonald’s is looking to win the chicken sandwich wars with lower prices, while Restaurant Brands International’s Burger King is still figuring out its strategy, according to a Credit Suisse report. In August of 2019, Burger King’s sister chain Popeyes kicked off the chicken sandwich wars with the launch of its
Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company and former head of Walt Disney Parks and Experiences, speaks during a media preview of the D23 Expo 2019 in Anaheim, California, Aug. 22, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg via Getty Images Disney is set to report earnings for the first quarter of 2021 after the
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Walt Disney (DIS) – Disney reported quarterly profit of 32 cents per share, surprising analysts who had expected a loss of 41 cents per share. Disney saw a not-unexpected slump in theme park attendance and box office results due to Covid, but the
Dr. Anthony Fauci and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates talk regularly these days, and as you would imagine, they mostly talk about ending the pandemic. More specifically, right now, “we’re talking a lot about these variants and what that will do,” Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $1.75 billion to the fight against Covid-19, told
Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity prepares for flight. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic shares dropped after the company on Friday delayed its next spaceflight test, which was scheduled for this weekend. “We have been progressing through our pre-flight preparations and, during that process, we have decided to allow more time for technical checks. We are working to
Charles “Chase” Merritt, who was convicted of murdering the McStay family, appears during his sentencing hearing at San Bernardino Superior Court in San Bernardino on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Watchara Phomicinda | MediaNews Group | The Riverside Press-Enterprise via Getty Images In an era of gig work and side hustles, many budding entrepreneurs may be
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