Wealth

Elon Musk says the No. 1 way to decrease carbon dioxide emissions would be to levy a tax on carbon. “My top recommendation, honestly, would be just add a carbon tax,” Musk told Joe Rogan on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Thursday. “The economy works great. Prices and money are just information. … If

Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban says new innovations and companies will come out of the pandemic, creating an “America 2.0,” as he calls it. “At the beginning of the pandemic, as awful as it’s been, I talked about companies that we’re going to look back [on] in 10 or 15 years that were created” during this

Dr. Anthony Fauci and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates talk regularly these days, and as you would imagine, they mostly talk about ending the pandemic. More specifically, right now, “we’re talking a lot about these variants and what that will do,” Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $1.75 billion to the fight against Covid-19, told

Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder and CEO of Bumble, has built a business worth over $7 billion in seven years. In its initial public offering, Bumble raised $2.2 billion from investors. Bumble is also one of the three female-founded companies to go public in the past year and has made Wolfe Herd a billionaire at 31. So

In 2003, I purchased a 1,000 square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom house in San Francisco for $580,000, with a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage of 4.25%. At 26 years old, I had put almost all my savings into the 20% down payment. Over the next few years, I became obsessed with trying to pay off my mortgage early. In

It’s often said that remote workers can work from anywhere where there’s an internet connection. But tell that to someone who wants to live and work in Bangkok or Bali right now. The coronavirus pandemic has pushed millions of workers from their offices into their homes — and many have decided they want to change

Although investor Kevin O’Leary says bitcoin is a “giant nothing-burger” and has compared it to gambling, he owns some, along with a few other cryptocurrencies. “I have a crypto wallet,” says O’Leary, which he created on Coinbase in 2017. At the time, “I was lecturing at Harvard Business School, and the students challenged me to

Instability in financial markets and personal finances over the course of 2020 may have significantly altered our relationship with money, according to new research, which suggests people have more faith in robots than humans to manage their cash. Over three-quarters (76%) of consumers in Asia-Pacific said they would now trust a robot more than a

laflor | E+ | Getty Images After experiencing a year that I am sure we would all like to forget, there are definitely some financial lessons learned from 2020 that we should use in our day to day lives going forward. The most significant thing about experiencing events that are statistically very rare, such as

In October 2011, I moved to New York to pursue my dream of becoming a writer. I’d graduated from Boston University in 2008 with $85,000 in student loan debt. Although I’d made some payments, by the time I moved I was closer to $90,000 in the hole due to mounting interest. I juggled multiple jobs

Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban, investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, often attributes his success to his commitment to life-long learning. But “the most underrated thing” about Cuban is a skill he honed working at a bar in college, Cuban’s former statistics professor at Indiana University, Wayne Winston, reportedly told podcast

Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that originally started as a joke in 2013, is now surging as billionaires like Elon Musk and celebrities like Snoop Dogg tweet their interest. Among those billionaires is Mark Cuban. Don’t get him wrong, Cuban realizes dogecoin has no intrinsic value — but it sure is fun. “Dogecoin is less than a

Jeff Bezos would owe about $2 billion a year in state income taxes under Washington’s proposed wealth tax, according to legislators. As part of an effort to reduce inequality and offset the state’s lack of an income tax, Washington state legislators are proposing a 1% levy on wealth over $1 billion. Lawmakers say the tax

The details behind Elon Musk‘s $100 million prize for the best carbon capture technology are coming into focus. On Jan. 21 when the Tesla CEO tweeted he would be donating $100 million toward a prize for the best carbon capture technology, he piqued interest, but also left many questions unanswered. On Monday, the nonprofit organization

Travelers may have read that now is the “perfect time” to visit Tahiti, but they will be surprised to find it — and the rest of French Polynesia — is suddenly closed to them. As vaccinations are opening borders to some countries, Covid mutations are causing others to close. The volatile nature of the pandemic’s

A person walks into the Nordstrom store open for business as New York City moves into Phase 2 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic on June 29, 2020 in New York, New York. Rob Kim | Getty Images Retailers including Nordstrom, Coach owner Tapestry and Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings are

Before he co-founded Twitter and became a billionaire, Jack Dorsey thought about quitting the tech industry altogether for an entirely different line of work: fashion designer. Today, 44-year-old Dorsey is the CEO of both Twitter and mobile payment company Square and has an estimated personal net worth of $12.9 billion, according to Forbes. But, before

Though billionaire investor Mark Cuban has warned people to be cautious with cryptocurrency, he recently said digital assets — from digital goods to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin — will be the future of business. And Cuban has invested in cryptocurrency himself, both in business and personally. In fact, Cuban has an extensive cryptocurrency wallet, which he shared on

A pedestrian and cyclist wear facemasks outside a branch of department store chain Nordstrom in Santa Monica, California on May 11, 2020. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Nordstrom said Thursday it expects revenue to rise more than 25% in fiscal 2021 from the prior year, with roughly half of its sales coming

Executives, directors and members of the Koss family sold more than $44 million in stock in Koss Corp. over the past week as shares soared from the retail-investor buying frenzy. Members of the Koss family, who own about 75% of the Milwaukee-based maker of headphones, sold $31 million of stock, according to filings with the