External View of the Apple store on Fifth Avenue on August 19, 2020 in New York City. VIEW press | Corbis News | Getty Images Tesla has been called “the Apple of the automotive industry” for the amount of technology in its vehicles. But as Apple is in talks to partner with South Korean automaker
Month: February 2021
Men wearing face masks walk past a Gap store at a shopping area, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China February 7, 2020. Jason Lee | Reuters BEIJING — China’s capital city will hand out about $1.5 million in a limited trial of the central bank’s digital
Travelers may have read that now is the “perfect time” to visit Tahiti, but they will be surprised to find it — and the rest of French Polynesia — is suddenly closed to them. As vaccinations are opening borders to some countries, Covid mutations are causing others to close. The volatile nature of the pandemic’s
Treasury Department records show that 2020 set a new record for the number of Americans who renounced their U.S. citizenship or gave up their long-term green cards. Common reasons for renouncing can be family, tax and legal complications for people who generally live outside the United States. There is an official list published quarterly, and the
Tom Brady may have won six Super Bowls in 20 seasons with the New England Patriots, but he’s also established a winning record off the field—by moving around, buying and selling real estate from Montana to Los Angeles to New York. After all, it takes shrewd dealmaking to become one of the NFL’s highest-paid players
getty How does income affect fertility rates or, more generally, family size? Or, put more bluntly, do the poor have more kids than the middle class? Do they, are they’ve long been accused of, have “too many” kids? Turns out, it’s hard to find data to answer that question. We know that fertility rates vary
Prince, Beyonce and Lady Gaga performing in past Super Bowl Halftime shows. Getty Images This year’s Super Bowl may kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, but for some the true entertainment starts at halftime. Since the very first Super Bowl in 1967, the championship football game has always included a halftime show. However, for
As the Reddit rebellion tries to make a comeback, one long-time market bull is seeing euphoria at dot-com bubble levels. According to Ed Yardeni, it’s happening because the government is unintentionally setting the stage for retail investors to wage highly speculative bets. “There’s just so much liquidity that has been provided by the Fed and
A person walks into the Nordstrom store open for business as New York City moves into Phase 2 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic on June 29, 2020 in New York, New York. Rob Kim | Getty Images Retailers including Nordstrom, Coach owner Tapestry and Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings are
be responsible and protect ecological environment, environmental protection symbol texture getty Last month gave us another building material reuse charitable deduction case. The Fourth Circuit sustained a district court decision that entirely denied any charitable deduction to Lawrence and Linda Mann for material from the tear-down of a Bethesda, Maryland house that went to Second Chance
The Helix will have outdoor gardens on the exterior spiral walkways. NBBJ/Amazon The work-from-home trend isn’t stopping Amazon from continuing with its development plans for HQ2 near Crystal City, VA. This week they submitted plans for the Helix—a spherical shaped building on their PenPlace campus which will bring 2.8 million square feet of new office
Chuck Bolotin with gas station attendants in Baja California Sur, Mexico Chuck Bolotin In his book on happiness, Dennis Prager points out that gratitude is a pre-condition for happiness (as well as goodness) and one of the most important emotions one can feel and cultivate. It’s one of the main reasons why, for thousands of years,
Getting into the Super Bowl spirit usually entails some sort of wager. This year, however, gambling on the big game looks a lot different than it has in the past. Altogether, more than half of Americans said they’ll bet on this Sunday’s Super Bowl LV, according to a report from LendingTree. Despite widespread job losses,
Blimps were once at the forefront of aviation innovation. They took passengers across oceans in luxurious cabins, and they protected U.S. warships in open seas. But as the airplane quickly took over the age of aviation, blimps and airships faded from widespread use. “Everybody talks about the Hindenburg crash being the end of the airship,”
Cristiano Amon, president of Qualcomm and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, responds to a question during a panel discussion on 5G wireless broadband technology during the 2018 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 10, 2018. Steve Marcus | Reuters Qualcomm reported first quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday. Adjusted earnings beat expectations but Qualcomm’s sales were
The GameStop Corp. logo on a smartphone Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images A look at a list of the 10 most-purchased stocks by retail traders during the market mania last month is missing one key stock: GameStop. AMC Entertainment and Plug Power, two names caught up in the trading frenzy along with GameStop,
A United Parcel Service worker delivers packages in New York City. Stephanie Keith | Getty Images Volatility has made its way back to Wall Street. Over the last few weeks, the trading mania related to GameStop and AMC Entertainment has hogged headlines, after a group of retail investors banded together to bid up the share
Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon sold the home at 145 Central Park West in 2016 for $21.5 million. Warburg Realty The former Upper West Side home of Goldman Sachs chairman and chief executive officer David Solomon has come on the market for $24 million. The investment banking executive owned the fourth-floor co-op at the exclusive
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during an event to introduce the Raise The Wage Act at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 16, 2019. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Senate Democrats passed a budget resolution early Friday, the latest step towards approving President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan by a simple majority without Republican votes.
A woman receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center established at the Triton College in River Grove, Illinois, on February 3, 2021. Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP | Getty Images Dozens of states and cities are clawing back thousands of extra doses of Covid-19 vaccine that were meant to be used by CVS and
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