Month: December 2022

It’s time to start treating handbags like a legitimate investment. In 2020, the investment potential of handbags outpaced rare artwork, cars and whiskey, according to Art Market Research. By 2027, the market is expected to reach $100 billion, compared to today’s $72 billion. As the founder of Rebag, a designer handbag resale site, I’ve kept
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Nov. 15, 2022. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump paid millions of dollars in state and local taxes from 2015 through 2020, according to income tax returns publicly released Friday by the House Ways and Means Committee. But while the returns show associated tax deductions
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With the holidays soon gone, the annual January spending hangover awaits. It’s around this time when families have to pay credit card bills and face the splurge of spending that they undertook in December. With the holiday damage on top of mind, it also provides a fantastic moment to help teach, guide or inform your
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Tax Notes reporters recap some of the weirdest stories they encountered in 2022, from the tax troubles of reality stars to a fight over a rather large tax bill for Christmas trees. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. David D. Stewart: Happy holidays from Tax Notes. I’m David Stewart, editor in chief
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D3sign | Moment | Getty Images The surge in egg prices has stood out in a year when Americans saw their bills balloon across the grocery store. Average egg prices jumped 49.1% in November compared with those a year earlier — the largest annual percentage increase among all grocery items in that period, according to
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It’s not by accident that this Italian farmhouse near Rome seems to ooze antiquity and charm. The ivy-covered home occupies a bucolic site where historical artifacts dating to 200 B.C. have been uncovered. Surrounded by the Appia Antica Park, also known as the Appian Way Regional Park, the 5,000-square-meter (about 1.25-acre) property is hedged with
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A backup residency and alternate citizenship are critical pieces of an offshore diversification plan and more important today than they’ve ever been in history. Your options for residency overseas are many. Some countries offer a dozen different programs, including “self-sufficiency” options that you qualify for by showing a guaranteed minimum monthly income. Aside from proving
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As cities struggle with post-pandemic growth, a recent Route Fifty story says Midwestern cities are “reaching beyond traditional incentives,” instead “promoting quality of life benefits.” But two of the cities cited depend either on government spending, or on their status as a wealthy suburb in a metro area. That’s very traditional—and inequitable—for growth, and isn’t
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In this article LUV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Travelers at Baltimore Washington International airport deal with the impact of Southwest Airlines canceling more than 12,000 flights around the Christmas holiday weekend across the country and in Baltimore, Maryland, December 27, 2022. Michael McCoy | Reuters Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown will “certainly” hit its
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