Month: September 2021

Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky speaks onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, California. Kimberly White | Getty Images Revolut, the global fintech player valued at $33 billion, will soon offer commission-free stock trading to U.S. customers for the first time, CNBC has learned. The start-up is set to announce Tuesday that it secured
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Some headlines are sure to draw eyeballs. Case in point, each time the Social Security Administration issues its annual report, there will be a series of articles discussing the fact the that the Social Security trust fund will run out of money. The attention is especially likely in years like this one where the time
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As the US continues struggling with Covid-19 and economic recovery, debate is growing about the revival of “industrial policy”—government -led efforts to favor certain industries over others, in contradiction to market fundamentalist approaches.  An important new forum in the Boston Review takes on these issues and is well worth your attention.  For our future prosperity, these issues are more
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Partner at Peak State Ventures and Co-Founder of 42Floors. Investing in entrepreneurs changing the world.  When I started 42Floors in 2011, I just wanted to make the best commercial real estate search engine. The nascent real estate startup industry, now referred to as “proptech” (property technology), was tiny. Most people told me that real estate was a horrible
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Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan told CNBC that it seems realistic that younger kids will be getting vaccinated for Covid-19 based on the new data released by Pfizer on Monday. “Those findings are very promising, especially around the ability of a very small dose, leading to a very strong immune reaction,”
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Women study, earn, and work more than they did 100 years ago – a sign of progress in the fight against sex discrimination.  However, women with equivalent skills and education still earn less than men, which adds up to much worse retirement security in old age.  As a result of lower lifetime earnings, lower retirement
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Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images A tax package unveiled by House Democrats would forbid individual retirement accounts from holding certain private investments typically reserved for the wealthy. While proponents think the proposal would raise investor protection and reduce the use of an IRA as a tax shelter for the rich, critics
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Kirkland, Washington, the Seattle suburb that had one of the nation’s first clusters of Covid-19 cases at its Life Care Center nursing home early last year, led the U.S. for home-flipping profits during 2021’s second quarter, according to an AATOM report ranking the nation’s zip codes. A typical home flip in the 98033 zip code,
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An artist’s illustration of the Axiom modules attached to the International Space Station. Axiom Space The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to retire the International Space Station by the end of this decade, so the U.S. space agency is turning to private companies to build new space stations in orbit – and expects to
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On September 3 the Texas Supreme Court agreed to hear Sirius XM Radio, concerning whether the state properly apportioned the taxpayer’s activities within the jurisdiction for purposes of calculating its franchise tax liability. While there are several issues in play, the critical one is whether the state’s interpretation of the relevant statutes in this case is contrary to the
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Matt Avital is the Principal & Founder of Ascenda Capital, located in Los Angeles, CA.  Surprisingly, the loan program that provides multifamily property owners with the longest amortization, the highest leverage and often the lowest interest rate is a program that is not well known even by many of the industry’s top players. In the multifamily
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