Marijuana for sale on a cannabis tour organized by L.A.-based Green Tours, January 24, 2019. (Photo credit ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images OK, let’s get past all the jokes about aging Baby Boomers revisiting their youth and getting stoned. As the medical and recreational use of marijuana grows across the country, older adults are increasingly either
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses denial of a restricted application for spousal benefits only, whether benefits for an ex impact a decision to remarry, the possibility of voluntarily ending disability, reinstating retirement benefits at
The North Pole Igloos, where you can now stay for $105,000 for one night. Photo courtesy of Luxury Action Travelers are taking things to the extremes these days, whether it’s paying $80,000 to stay in a luxury hotel in Antarctica or having a one-of-a-kind hotel built just for them in the remotest parts of the earth. Now, people looking for
An interview with value investor and author, Joel Greenblatt. In this interview, Joel discusses where he thinks the market is and how he values a stock. Joel also talks about the future of value investing and the importance of patience in waiting for the market to move to a valuation. ???? Books by Joel Greenblatt
Fans of hit TV series Downton Abbey now have the opportunity to live like a “Lord or Lady” for a night at the prestigious stately home. To mark the release of the “Downton Abbey” movie, the owners of Highclere Castle — the set of the BBC’s iconic period drama — have listed their home on
Large banking institutions face the risk of failure if interest rates in Europe continue to stay negative, an economist told CNBC after the European Central Bank cut rates last week. “I think there are big questions to banking sector profitability,” global chief economist of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Simon Baptist, said Friday. The ECB on
Robert Bakish, chief executive officer of Viacom International Media Networks, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. The event, which generates several hundred million euros in revenue for the city of Barcelona each year, also means the world for a week turns its
If some financial advisors seem to know clients’ needs before they do, there’s a good chance software is part of the reason. Financial technology — or fintech, for short — has increased competition in the advice business via automated online platforms. Yet at the same time, advisors have found that those digital advances have bolstered
Many women are aware that a woman in the U.S. generally makes about 80 cents to each dollar a man earns. Much of that shortfall has been explained by criteria such as education and work experience — women are more likely to work part time and take time off over the course of their careers,
KM4 | Getty Images They brew beer, make musical instruments, publish children’s books and design headphones. Their industries are diverse, but they all have something in common: They represent American small and medium-sized businesses that rely on China either for production or essential equipment. And they are dreading President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariffs
Late last July Jason Zweig and Andrea Fuller reported on the front page of The Wall Street Journal how CFP Board has failed at monitoring certificant listings at their LetsMakeAPlan.Org consumer referral website. Zweig and Fuller found certificants whose disclosure histories appeared clean on CFP Board’s site to have, among other causes for criminal felony
Getty Nobody likes getting a tax bill in the mail. It’s especially concerning when your tax bill is a bit higher than you anticipated. But what happens when it’s hundreds of millions of dollars more than you were expecting? Just ask Donna Smith from Aurora, Colorado. Smith, a part-time worker at a local thrift store,
Skyline Tower, to the left of the Citigroup Building. Binyan Studio Queens will soon be officially taller than Brooklyn. Skyline Tower, a 67-story new development in Long Island City became the tallest building in its borough last week, surpassing the Citigroup Building, which stands at 673 feet. Once it reaches its full 762 feet, likely
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol June 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Democrats should focus on making improvements to Obamacare instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with “Medicare for All,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday. “God bless” 2020
Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at the 2019 SOHN Conference in New York on May 6th, 2019. Adam Jeffery | CNBC DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach believes the bottom for interest rates is in for 2019. Growing fears about a possible global economic slowdown prompted Treasury yields to hit their historic lows a few weeks ago. The so-called
Bill Gates Chesnot/Getty Images Bill Gates is not taking a defensive approach with his billions of dollars of wealth. The founder of Microsoft added $16 billion to his net worth this year, despite giving away over $35 billion to charity, according to Bloomberg. That brings Gates’ total wealth to $106 billion, the second largest fortune
Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Saudi oil production will be fully back online by the end of September, the kingdom’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told media during a press conference in Jeddah on Tuesday, sending oil prices down by nearly 6% just a day after their biggest jump in history. The
Morgan Stanley signage on the door of their headquarters building in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Morgan Stanley is offering a new tool to help financial advisors and their clients measure sustainable investing choices and how they perform in their portfolios. The analytics and reporting application, called Morgan Stanley Impact Quotient, was announced on
It’s the night before a school field trip, and your son or daughter suddenly remembers they need cash for the next day. Do you have the money in your wallet? Or do you need to make a light-night stop at an ATM or have another child temporarily lend them the money? Nicholas Prior | Getty
Pro Football Hall of Famer Terrell Davis on Wednesday told CNBC that he uses a hemp extract to cope with pain from his playing days and that the remedy could be used to help other athletes “feel normal again.” The two-time Super Bowl champion and former Denver Broncos running back said on “The Exchange” that