A man waits for pharmacist Joe Borge in Danvers, MA on Feb. 1, 2021. On the first day of Phase 2 of the COVID-19 rollout, seniors, 75 and over, get vaccinated in the Walgreens Pharmacy, at 107 High Street, in Danvers. Pat Greenhouse | Boston Globe | Getty Images Walgreens and Uber are teaming up
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images Millions of Americans will get tax forms for unemployment benefits this filing season. However, many will get them in error due to fraud, creating a potential headache for recipients. At least $36 billion has been lost to improper unemployment payments, largely due to fraud, by early November, according to an
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
The contents of the Starlink Kit for customers, which includes the satellite antenna dish, a stand, its power supply, and a WiFi router. SpaceX SpaceX once again widened the scope of the public beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service, with Elon Musk’s company on Monday beginning to accept preorders from potential customers. Prospective
VAT remains at the forefront of the UK tax authority’s (HMRC’s) Making Tax Digital (MTD) plans, which aim to make HMRC a “world-leading, digital tax authority.” The next phase of MTD takes effect this year, for VAT return periods starting after April 1 2021. The changes have extensive application and will be relevant to most
Lee Kiser is a multifamily expert, active broker and Principal of Kiser Group, Chicagoland’s leading mid-market multifamily brokerage firm. getty Multifamily brokers frequently hear this comment from apartment property owners: “I don’t want to list, but you can bring me a buyer.” Their reasons sometimes include previous bad experiences, fear of getting “tied up” in a formal
Investment fees can invalidate the 4% Rule. Here’s what you need to know. getty The 4% Rule has helped generations of retirees estimate how much they can spend each year in retirement. What many don’t know, however, is the role investment fees played, or didn’t play, in the creation of the rule. For example, does
People press demands to McDonald’s to raise workers wages to a $15 minimum wage, May 23, 2019 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images A report released Monday from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 could add tens of billions of dollars
It should’ve been the night to lure new customers onto their platforms. Instead, technical disruptions and crashes left the biggest sports gambling platforms cringing and scrambling to solve unexpected problems. In Nevada, BetMGM’s app crapped out. Ten minutes before kickoff, MGM‘s retail sportsbooks found they could not accept bets. And while disgruntled patrons complained on
A Temasek Holdings signage at their office in Singapore. Munshi Ahmed | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore’s state investment company Temasek Holdings announced Tuesday that Ho Ching will retire from her roles as chief executive and executive director on Oct. 1. Ho, the wife of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, has been
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
Robinhood was sued Monday for wrongful death by the family of Alex Kearns, a 20-year-old customer who took his life last summer after believing he had racked up big losses on the millennial-favored stock trading app. “This case centers on Robinhood’s aggressive tactics and strategy to lure inexperienced and unsophisticated investors, including Alex, to take
regulations printed on rubber stamp getty Presidential vetoes are fairly common, though they seldom carry tax implications. There have been 40 presidential vetoes since the turn of the century. That includes 39 conventional vetoes plus a single pocket veto. If you’re keeping score, the tally is as follows: President Clinton vetoed seven bills during his last year in
Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Bamboo Equity Partners, a leading commercial real estate investment firm. getty Making predictions is challenging even in quieter times, let alone in a year with a global pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic will forever influence almost all aspects of our lives, including the use of real estate. However, what history has taught
Questionable hearing device getty Almost 50 million Americans suffer from some level of hearing loss. The majority of them are adults older than 65. I know quite a number of people who have hearing aids; some wear them religiously, some do not. The non-wearers claim they don’t really work for them, they’re cumbersome, they are visible
bymuratdeniz | E+ | Getty Images With all of Medicare‘s different rules for enrolling, it’s not unheard of to miss your signup deadline. Now is the time to remedy that. During a general enrollment period that opened Jan. 1 and closes March 31, anyone who did not enroll when they should have (as defined by
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images New, highly contagious variants of the coronavirus are a “threat” to the United States and could reverse the recent drop in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday. The
A police officer directs Miami-Dade County residents as they line up in their cars to receive a paper unemployment form on April 7, 2020 in Hialeah, Florida. Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Millions of workers have left the labor force since the early days of the Covid pandemic. That’s bad news
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
Hundreds of unemployed Kentucky residents wait in long lines outside the Kentucky Career Center for help with their unemployment claims on June 19, 2020 in Frankfort, Kentucky. While the economic recovery has brought back jobs since the lowest point of the Covid-19 crisis, millions of Americans remain unemployed. John Sommers II There is a contentious