Wealth

As department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue try to get shoppers back into stores after the Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns, the shift to online sales may continue to accelerate thanks to personalization technology. Richard Lautens | Toronto Star | Getty Images HBC, the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, said Friday it would be spinning the luxury

In 2009, my husband Vernon and I got married on the beach in Mazatlán, México. At our reception, we told each other that we would one day move there. Of course, life happened, and that dream was pushed off until later, perhaps when we were ready to retire. We had three beautiful kids, two cars,

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has been at the forefront of the wave of interest in blockchain technology, smart contracts and NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. It’s “like the early days of all new tech, the excitement sometimes creates some unique situations,” Cuban tells CNBC Make It. Recently, NFT-based art in particular has been selling for sometimes

Sen. Elizabeth Warren defended her latest wealth-tax proposal Tuesday, telling CNBC she believes most Americans won’t mind being rich enough to pay it. The Massachusetts Democrat made the comments in an interview on “Squawk Box,” one day after rolling out a proposal for an annual tax of 2%, or 2 cents, on every dollar of people’s

John Rogers of Ariel Investments told CNBC on Wednesday that corporations can play a critical role in helping close the racial wealth gap in the United States. In an interview on “Closing Bell,” the firm’s co-CEO and chief investment officer pointed to retirement savings plans as one place to start addressing it. But even then,

Dan Gilbert, chairman, Quicken Loans Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Tuesday’s dramatic and abnormal spike in the stock of Rocket Companies created a major windfall for founder Dan Gilbert, at least on paper. Shares of Rocket, where Gilbert is the majority shareholder, jumped more than 70% on Tuesday, adding $17.30 per share. According to InsiderScore.com and

Leon Cooperman at the 2019 Delivering Alpa conference in New York on Sept. 19. 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday he believes rich people would find ways to avoid paying Sen. Elizabeth Warren‘s wealth-tax if it were to become law. He also argued there are better mechanisms to raise federal

In late 2020, Josh Tetrick achieved a world first: His food tech company, Eat Just, became the first in the world to start selling cultured chicken for human consumption, after receiving the go-ahead from Singapore regulators. The landmark approval marks a major leap forward for the multibillion-dollar company as it aims to disrupt the established

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, speaks to a group of Amazon employees that are veterans during an Amazon Veterans Day celebration on Monday, November 12, 2018. Leonard Ortiz | Digital First Media | Getty Images Jeff Bezos would owe $5.7 billion in taxes for 2020 under the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act proposed by a

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, all his life Josh Tetrick was certain he was going to be a linebacker in the National Football League. So when he fell short of a career as a professional football player, he needed a new place to channel his energy. As Tetrick saw it, he had two choices: Follow

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., holds a news conference to announce legislation that would tax the net worth of America’s wealthiest individuals at the U.S. Capitol on Mar. 1, 2021 in Washington. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images A slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill — including progressives Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and

On Friday, Samantha John pitched Hopscotch, an app that teaches kids how to code by building games, to the Sharks on ABC’s “Shark Tank.” Over the last nine years, John turned her passion for programming into a profitable business. But “when I was a kid, I never thought that coding was for me. I was

You’d know a chicken nugget if you saw one, right? How about one grown from a single cell, with no animals harmed in the process? Josh Tetrick is betting not. He is trying to win over consumers with his lab-grown chicken bite following the world’s first approval of his company’s cultured chicken in Singapore at the end of 2020.

More and more wealthy art collectors are cashing in on low interest rates to borrow against their Picassos and Basquiats, adding to risks of a leveraged boom and bust in the art market. The Fine Art Group, an art advisory and finance firm, said loan requests surged by 30% in 2020 compared with 2019 as

Kaylin Marcotte’s quest to wind down after busy workdays led her to start a puzzle business that now has more than $1 million dollars in sales in just over one year. Marcotte used puzzles as her nightly meditation when she was head of marketing and community at news platform theSkimm in 2014. She was completing

People working from home have more options for making their living abroad than ever before. In addition to the countries that initially opened to remote workers last year, new destinations have launched programs to tempt workers to ditch their home offices for tropical shores and year-round sun.   What’s necessary? Employment outside of the intended

David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, April 29, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that working from home was “not a new normal” for the investment banking giant, calling it an “aberration.”  Speaking at

Nuclear energy will “absolutely” be politically palatable, billionaire philanthropist, technologist and climate change evangelist Bill Gates recently told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Nuclear power has to overcome a baneful reputation garnered by association with the atomic bomb and radioactive disasters, but it’s a necessary, worthy and surmountable challenge to correct the naysayers,

martin-dm | E+ | Getty Images The amount of money raised by special purpose acquisition companies in the past year has soared. SPACs are an alternative way for companies to go public that differs from a traditional initial public offering in its process, speed, disclosure and regulatory requirements. Key participants involved in SPACs include SPAC sponsors

For “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary, making videos on Cameo is a lucrative side hustle. “People ask me all the time about Cameo. It’s my side hustle,” O’Leary, chairman of O’Shares ETFs, tells CNBC Make It. On Cameo, customers can pay for personalized video shout-outs from thousands of celebrities, from Carole Baskin from Netflix’s “Tiger