Wealth

Travelers itching for a change of scenery amid months of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders brought on by the coronavirus pandemic now have a new option. The Maldives reopened to international visitors this week, after being closed to visitors since March 27. While much of the world has shut its borders or enacted strict measures on

StockX, the online sneaker reseller, has seen a surge in the number of Air Jordan shoes submitted and listed to the website, CEO Scott Cutler told CNBC’s Jim Cramer Wednesday. The company, which launched in 2015, has authenticated a total of 3.5 million pairs of the highly sought after shoe brand and 1 million of

Many famous and productive friendships have come out of California’s Stanford University: from Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and David Filo. Snap billionaire Evan Spiegel started Snapchat with Bobby Murphy, who lived across the hall in their fraternity house. But Spiegel also made another enduring friendship at Stanford with a

Investor Kevin O’Leary started his first business out of his basement in 1986. In 1999, O’Leary and his co-founders sold the company to the Mattel Toy Company for $4.2 billion.  But even if the business had failed, O’Leary says he would have persisted as an entrepreneur. “If starting my first company hadn’t worked out, I would

With occupancy rates now at 44% in the U.S., and European hotels not expected to fully recover until 2023, hotels are reaching out to a new crop of clientele — local residents who are tired of working from home.  Luxury hotels are now renting rooms by the day — often at steeply discounted rates —

In the early 2000s, Tesla Motors was a small start-up underdog in the automotive industry. It faced naysayers because “no one was doing electric cars,” CEO Elon Musk said on the “Third Row Tesla” podcast in February.  But despite the odds, Tesla became the world’s most valuable automaker – its market capitalization surpassed Toyota’s for the first time on July

Abigail Disney, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Disney heiress Abigail Disney is among the millionaires calling for governments to impose higher taxes on the wealthy to help fund the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.  “Tax

An event held in Hong Kong for investors interested in U.K. property. Uptin Saiidi | CNBC A lot of the wealthy, wealthy Hong Kongers already have a footprint in the U.K. and they’ve already started some of that displacement of capital or diversification of capital outside of Hong Kong James Dempsey Asia sales director at

Working from home could be about to get a major upgrade, as Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has said her government is considering letting visitors stay and work remotely from the island for a year.  Mottley said lawmakers were looking at introducing the 12-month “Barbados Welcome Stamp,” noting that restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic

Young Elon Musk had two favorite subjects in high school – and in both, he performed “best” academically.  “When I was in high school … I got distinctions in two areas: physics and computer science,” Musk said on the “Third Row Tesla” podcast in February. “Those were my two best subjects.” So at the time, “I

Although Kevin O’Leary started his first business at 32, he knew as a teenager that he would become an entrepreneur. He had that ‘aha’ moment working at an ice cream shop in high school, he tells CNBC Make It.  “My big ‘aha’ moment was getting fired from my first job on the first day I was

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, who is worth more than $7 billion, is pledging $3 million to support experiments in free cash payments to Americans, he announced Thursday. Dorsey is giving the money to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, a coalition of mayors who advocate for universal basic income, as well as invest in pilot programs around

Both as president and in business, Donald Trump is often accused of being overconfident and self-serving. And according to his niece Mary Trump’s upcoming book, “Too Much and Never Enough,” Donald learned that from his dad Fred’s obsession with famous 1950s self help author, Norman Vincent Peale. Peale, a minister who “preached self-confidence as a life

The world’s uber wealthy are increasingly putting their money towards socially, ethically and environmentally conscious businesses, which could spur the growth of sustainable investments. In Capgemini’s World Wealth Report 2020, more than a quarter (27%) of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) — those with investible assets of $1 million or more — said they were

A Chelsea Tower rental apartments billboard. Jeff Greenberg | Getty Images The number of apartments listed for rent in Manhattan reached record levels in June, as brokers remained unable to host showings amid the coronavirus pandemic and more renters left the city, according to a new report. There were more than 10,000 apartments listed on

Like many Black women, I was gifted with a subset of skills for resilience at a young age. Resiliency is powerful because it can emphasize the positive factors of pushing through in the face of adversity. This served me well throughout childhood, but created problems as I got older. I saw my resiliency as a badge

“Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention,” reads one of Amazon’s famous core leadership principles delineated on its website. This, one of the major tenants upon which Jeff Bezos built Amazon, is something he learned as a kid spending more than a dozen summers on working on his grandfather’s ranch in Texas. “I learned so much from my

If you’re dreaming of going abroad this summer, countries in the European Union are gradually reopening their borders to residents of select countries around the world. From July 10, people from England, for example, will be able to go to popular destinations such as France, Spain and Italy without having to quarantine on arrival or upon

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the global jobs market. From enjoying one of the tightest labor markets in years, the U.S. is now facing chronic unemployment rates, with similar stories playing out across the world. That paradigm shift has moved power away from employees and over to employers, as countless candidates vie over the same

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts an event on reopening schools amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Multiple businesses with ties to President Donald Trump received millions of dollars in small business relief loans backed by the administration.