Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images It can be hard to look away from the constant stream of financial success stories and tips on TikTok, YouTube, Reddit and other social media platforms. Users on WallStreetBets and other forums brag about the tens of thousands of dollars they’ve made over short periods of time by
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GameStop logos displayed on a phone and a laptop screens are seen in this illustration photo taken … [+] in Poland on January 28, 2021. In the last days the GameStop stock short squeeze continues. (Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images There’s a new form of shareholder activism being
tax evasion and avoidance concept getty Glen Stoll has entered into a plea agreement that may spell the end of a long trail of tax shenanigans. The agreement dated January 15, 2021 has Stohl pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and evading the payment of federal income taxes. The charges in the indictment relate to
Forget “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” It’s hard enough keeping up with Tomer Fridman these days. Luxury real estate agent Tomer Fridman has joined Beverly Hills-based brokereage Hilton & Hyland, a … [+] founding member of Forbes Global Properties. Tomer Fridman After a record-setting 2020 in which Fridman and team closed $539 million sales, the
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan holds a press conference to address COVID-19 concerns in Annapolis, MD on November 17. Bill O’Leary | The Washington Post | Getty Images Maryland has reported a case of the new, highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first found in South Africa, marking the third case to be detected in the U.S., Gov.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk came out as a believer in bitcoin on Friday — and now he’s doubling down. The billionaire Tesla boss
The WallStreetBets forum on the Reddit Inc. website on a laptop computer and the GameStop logo on a smartphone arranged in Hastings-On-Hudson, New York, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images GameStop shares were volatile in pre-market trading on Monday as the Reddit-fueled frenetic trading continues. Shares of the
A 401(K) rollover doesn’t have to stressfull. Here are ten 401(k) Rollover mistakes you need to … [+] avoid. getty Mistakes when rolling over your old 401(k) can be quite costly and annoying. Sadly, these mistakes are also quite common. On a happier note, these 401(k) rollover mistakes are easy to avoid. First off, not
Bring it home this Valentine’s Day Jesse Goll on Unsplash 2021 couldn’t be a better year to give a Valentine’s Day or Galantine’s Gift for the home. After all, most of us are still spending far more time at home these days than we did this time last year. It’s very likely our living spaces
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on tackling climate change prior to signing executive actions in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, January 27, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden has passed an early flurry of executive action on climate change during his first weeks in office, reversing environmental
Workers stand at the port of Qingdao, Shandong province, China June 10, 2019. Reuters BEIJING — China is set to overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy a few years earlier than anticipated due to the coronavirus pandemic, analysts said. The U.S. reported last week that gross domestic product in 2020 contracted by
A man walks past an AMC theatre amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 27, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Stocks on Robinhood’s restricted trading list jumped during premarket trading on Friday, after the online brokerage said Thursday evening that it would resume limited
By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Managing Editor getty Philip Moeller, author of the helpful new book “Get What’s Yours for Health Care,” says you need to be your own advocate to save on health care expenses. “If people act like sheep, they’re going to get fleeced,” he told me. In the new episode of the
Indianapolis, Indiana tops Arch’s most affordable cities list Getty Here’s America’s most affordable cities according to Arch Mortgage Insurance Company. Arch recently crunched the numbers on the five most affordable cities LINK in the country. The results in The Housing and Mortgage Market Review (HaMMR) may surprise you. Included in Arch’s top five cities are
A Regal Cinemas movie theater stands at night in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Amir Hamja | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hollywood is hopeful that a robust Covid vaccine rollout will bring moviegoers back to theaters in droves, but content matters as well. Fortunately, there are a slew of blockbusters waiting for
A GameStop Corp. store in Rome, Italy, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Alesia Pierdomenico | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop and other stocks the fund was betting against, according to The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter. The
Johnson & Johnson products on a shelf in a store in New York. Lucas Jackson | Reuters It was a busy week for Wall Street. Heavyweights like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Boeing and Tesla, among others, stepped up to report their earnings for the most recent quarter. However, some analysts and strategists were more focused on
Home ownership has long been considered a staple of the American dream. During the pandemic, it has also become a dividing line between the haves and have-nots. As the coronavirus outbreak and rise of remote work pushed Americans to move from the city to the suburbs, those who could afford a single-family home have been
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about whether spousal benefits are automatic or not, the possibility of receiving spousal benefits after taking retirement benefits at 62 and an unexplained delay in Social Security processing an application. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic
Imagine opening your door to an IRS Agent flashing a badge from the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS. Now imagine that the IRS Agent turns out to be a crook. If it sounds far-fetched, read the indictment of Bryan Cho who was arrested and charged with a whole bundle of serious crimes. If he