Month: September 2022

Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The dollar is rising against other currencies to levels not seen in decades, hurting other countries and the U.S. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why the greenback is rocketing and why that’s a symptom of bad economic and monetary policies. The Federal Reserve, for
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The housing market landscape is vastly different than it was several months ago as potential home buyers and sellers continue to hesitate amid affordability challenges and mortgage rate swings exacerbating the housing cost roller coaster for buyers. Home values slipped for the second consecutive month as mortgage costs continue to sideline buyers, according to Zillow’s
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In this article FDX INTU Intuit sees strong consumer spending despite persistent inflation dogging the economy, company CEO Sasan Goodarzi told CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday. Goodarzi noted that the financial software firm is able to see consumer spending, the number of employees that businesses have hired and the number of hours they’ve worked. related
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Jamie Grill | Getty Images As Americans grapple with soaring prices, experts say it’s likely we’ll see higher-than-usual inflation adjustments from the IRS for 2023 — covering tax brackets, 401(k) plan contribution limits and more. Built into the tax code, these yearly IRS changes aim to prevent so-called “bracket creep,” when inflation bumps up income
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hept27 | iStock | Getty Images Student loan debtors are poised to get some breathing room after President Joe Biden unveiled a plan last month to forgive up to $20,000 per borrower in federal student loans. But some experts say the one-time presidential pardon will not do much to alleviate the student debt crisis affecting
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September 18th is National Cheeseburger Day. That’s just a random act by whoever publishes the “National Day” calendar. But did you know that September 18th has a real historic hamburger fact associated with it? Sometime in the late morning of Friday, September 18th, 1885, after the warm rains had stopped, two young brothers from Canton,
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No one wants trouble from the IRS of any sort, and especially not trouble that ends up becoming a criminal tax case. Sometimes IRS criminal tax cases start off that way, with an investigation. But sometimes, criminal tax cases come out of regular old civil IRS audits. If that sounds frightening, it is. Sometimes even
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Astronauts love fighter jets, and billionaire founder Jared Isaacman is no different. Isaacman, who founded payments company Shift4, is deep into training with his team for the first spaceflight of the Polaris Program, announced earlier this year, in partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Isaacman’s crew of four is using fighter jets — including aircraft from his
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In this article BTC.CM= ETH.CM= Ether has hugely outperformed bitcoin since both cryptocurrencies formed a bottom in June 2022. Ether’s superior gains have come as investors anticipate a major upgrade to the ethereum blockchain called “the merge.” Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in three months on Monday as investors
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Lucas Walton Builders Vision, the investing and philanthropy platform of billionaire Lukas Walton, has shifted its $1 billion endowment into what it calls “impact investments,” leading a broader shift in family offices to connect their investing and giving. Chicago-based Builders Vision will announce today that its Builders Initiative Foundation has moved 90% of its endowment
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