A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off with a crew of six, including Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the first American in space Alan Shepard, for whom the spacecraft is named, from Launch Site One in west Texas, U.S. December 11, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters WASHINGTON – Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue
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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Long-term care expenses are growing, with sizable hikes for home-based services as the industry struggles to meet soaring demand from aging Americans. That’s according to Genworth’s 2021 Cost of Care Survey, a yearly report covering nationwide senior caregiving. While the median yearly costs rose across all provider types, home-based
Over years of consulting with adult children’s struggles with their aging parents, some issues stand out to me. Some of the hardest ones are about an adult child who was abused, neglected or both by a messed-up parent. These offspring relate that the difficult parent didn’t just get that way with old age. Usually, I’m
Toronto’s Bridle Path neighborhood is known for its lavish mansions and celebrity neighbors. Superstars such as Drake, Celine Dion and Prince have called the sought-after enclave home. A 26,000-square-foot mega-mansion now for sale is just down the street from a spread Mick Jagger once rented. A circular driveway leads to the symmetrical front of the
The preamble to final regs (T.D. 9959) issued January 4 pulls no punches in denying U.S. foreign tax credits for a foreign country’s destination-based taxes imposed on U.S. taxpayers. The new regs finalize proposed regs published in November 2020 (REG-101657-20) that included rules for determining whether a foreign tax is eligible for an FTC under
A COVID-19 testing location is shown set up on the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles, California, November, 16, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters California on Thursday laid out a plan that manage Covid as a permanent aspect of life, anticipating future surges and new variants that may require public health measures such as facemasks depending
In this article WMT A shopper carries a bag outside a Walmart store in San Leandro, California, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart will report fourth-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, as investors look for clues about how shoppers are responding to inflation. Here is what
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Feb. 17, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures were flat in overnight trading Thursday following the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s worst day of 2022 as investors dumped risk assets amid geopolitical concerns. Futures on the blue-chip Dow were up by 30 point. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures
Prasit photo | Moment | Getty Images The U.S. wealth management industry is poised to grow by about 5% annually over the next five years, while certain segments of the investor population are positioned to see the biggest boost, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company. Three investor sub-groups, in particular, are showing
Circle, the firm behind the stablecoin USDC, has doubled its valuation to $9 billion following a new deal with blank-check company Concord Acquisition Corp. The two companies first revealed their plans to merge in July, in a deal that at the time valued Circle at just $4.5 billion. They have now updated the terms of
Getty Images Just months after a federal $15 minimum wage failed to take shape, Californians may get the chance to vote on even higher minimum hourly pay. A measure to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 began to collect signatures in February. If the campaign, called the Living Wage Act of 2022, gets 700,000
A new climate change catastrophe report by CoreLogic, a real estate data analytics provider, takes a look at how many homes were affected in 2021 by hurricanes, severe weather, winter storms and wildfires and warns of the high price tag of property damage or loss. A natural hazard can not only devastate a community but
Today’s Social Security column addresses questions about whether early retirement benefits would also require early survivor’s benefits, when it might be best to file for divorced spousal benefits and spousal benefits for people born in 1954 and later. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic
In this article AIR-FR A model of one of Airbus’ ZEROe concept aircraft displayed in Hamburg, Germany, on 18 January 2022. Marcus Brandt/dpa | picture alliance | Getty Images Aviation could face substantial challenges if it’s unable to decarbonize in a timely manner, according to the CEO of Airbus, who added that hydrogen planes represent
In this article PLTR Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp arrives at the “Tech for Good” Summit in Paris, France May 15, 2019. Charles Platiau | Reuters Shares of Palantir fell more than 13% on Thursday morning after the company reported mixed earnings results for the fourth quarter. Here are the key numbers: Earnings per share
David Solomon of Goldman Sachs Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon took a moment to bask in his firm’s recent performance before raising the company’s medium-term financial targets. Solomon on Thursday reminded the audience at a Credit Suisse conference that back in 2020, at Goldman’s first-ever Investor Day, he
In this article KER-FR Shoppers wait in line to enter a Gucci store on Fifth Avenue in New York, U.S., on Saturday, May 22, 2021. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — The chief executive of French luxury group Kering expects fashion label Gucci to continue to deliver growth for the company
When purchasing a new car these days, it may feel a lot like you’re giving your dealership a fat tip. To that point, 82% are paying above sticker price for new vehicles, according to new research from Edmunds.com. That compares to 2.8% a year ago and 0.3% in early 2020. Amid the auto industry’s persisting
Renowned architect John F. Kelsey left his mark throughout Southern California. Perhaps most famously, he partnered with USC classmate Thornton Ladd to create what is now known as Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum. Their shared belief was that space can be art too. The curving lines of the walkway, the landscaping and an old oak provide
By Ryan Finley At the end of the Tax Court’s 2016 opinion in Medtronic, a short section briefly summarizes and summarily rejects what the opinion describes as the IRS’s “alternative allocation under section 367(d).” A similarly perfunctory assessment appears tucked away in the Tax Court’s 2017 opinion in Eaton, which rejects substantially the same alternative argument for the same reasons, often using almost exactly the
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