Moviegoers wear face masks in a screening hall at a cinema almost six months after its closure due to the coronavirus pandemic on July 24, 2020 in Beijing, China. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images In a year marred by a deadly global pandemic, Japan’s box office set a new record.
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The math behind Bezos’ eight hours of sleep Bezos is very calculative about why he believes eight hours of sleep is the key to boosting productivity and making high-quality decisions. He offered a very convincing example: “So let’s go crazy and say I slept four hours a day. I’d get four so-called productive hours back.
studioEAST | Getty Images LONDON — Bitcoin’s record-breaking rally has led to a surge in retail investment interest in the cryptocurrency market. Crypto exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance and online trading platforms including Revolut and eToro have seen a spike in activity recently, as new investors race to capture some of the wild gains
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet Robert Alexander/Getty Images Wall Street is calling for recovery, reflation and rotation this year amid continued accommodative monetary and fiscal policy, according to analysts. Among the bulls, strategists from J.P. Morgan estimate that the S&P 500 could reach 4,400, with a range of 4,200 to 4,600. “Global growth
Rachel Bozarth and her family have frozen their spending on non-essential items for the month of January. Source: Rachel Bozarth Rachael Bozarth is taking some drastic measures to attack her debt. The 32-year old mother of five has pledged to freeze all of her non-essential spending for the month of January. “I need to retrain
UNDATED FILE PHOTO: Country singer and songwriter Johnny Paycheck (C) holds a teamsters union sign … [+] while joining a group of striking bookbinders in this photo from 1977. (Photo by Getty Images) Getty Images Do you have enough money to tell your boss, as singer Johnny Paycheck would say, “Take this Job and Shove
CPA Mark Astrinos, 37, started Los Gatos, California firm Libra Wealth not quite four years ago. Alison Yin/AP Images for American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Libra Wealth is giving stock pickers a run for their money by offering advice on tax maneuvers at a fraction of the cost. Mark Astrinos is a 37-year-old CPA
Ski lifts are just a stone’s throw away from this newly built Truckee home designed by Bohlin … [+] Cywinski Jackson. Tahoe Mountain Realty It’s a skier’s or snowboarder’s ultimate dream. Get up, get dressed, grab your season pass, head to the equipment room for your gear and then step outside. Groomed slopes are right
A patient lies on a stretcher in a hallway near other patients in the overloaded Emergency Room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on January 5, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Nearly 3,000 people in the U.S. are dying every day,
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Tesla (TSLA) – Tesla remains on watch after rising for 10 sessions in a row, surpassing Facebook (FB) in market value, and making CEO Elon Musk the world’s richest person. The company’s shares rose 3.8% in premarket trading as of 7:35 a.m. ET.
“As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse.” So says billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates in a recent blog post. “A global crisis has shocked the world. It is causing a tragic number of deaths, making people afraid to leave home, and leading to economic hardship not seen in many generations. Its effects
Jersey City, New Jersey. Dong Wenjie | Moment | Getty Images Whether they were tired of the chilly winters or the high income taxes, a lot of residents fled New Jersey, New York and Illinois in 2020. New Jersey was the top “outbound” state last year, according to an analysis of 2020 moving data by
A series of strategies for tax-wise investors. Table of Contents. Entrepreneurs (Photo by Tom Munnecke) Getty Images To help entrepreneurs, Congress has granted a tax exemption on capital gains from small companies. Small here is defined as having no more than $50 million in assets when an investor buys in. The deal is codified in
A series of strategies for tax-wise investors. Table of Contents. 501(c)(3) Associated Press “Qualified charitable distribution” is tax jargon for money you send directly to a charity from your pretax retirement account. This beats taking the money into your bank account and then writing a check to the charity. With the QCD, you keep the
Sold house sign on house in a sellers market. getty The 2020 housing market was a year of extremes. Within the span of just a few months, we saw homes bounce between hit decade highs and decade lows. Going into 2021, economists and industry players project home prices will continue rising by 5.7% in 2021 and that
A flight attendant gathers trash on a flight aboard a Boeing 737 Max from Dallas Fort Worth Airport to Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 2, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters The head of the Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday said travelers will face serious consequences for unruly behavior on aircraft, a stern warning that comes after several
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla — The electric vehicle company surged more than 7% to a new record high. Tesla’s market capitalization jumped above $800 billion for the first time on Friday, making the company more valuable than Facebook, and the fifth-most valuable component of the S&P 500. Evercore ISI
Make an estimated tax payment If you’re like nearly half of Americans, you can’t remember the last time you updated your withholding, which tells your employer how much federal income tax to take out of your check. “Inaccurate withholding can lead to an unpleasant surprise come Tax Day,” says Gregory Anton, chairman of the AICPA’s
The Going Jessies. Derek Wood (center), Angela Paradis (right) and James Breeding (left) Photo: Derek Wood Derek Wood was about to achieve a lifelong dream. Unemployment benefits may prove to be his foil. Wood, 49, a guitar player and songwriter from the Little Rock, Ark., area, who sings with a soulful country-blues croon, quit his
A series of strategies for tax-wise investors. Table of Contents. Gig. (Photo:Damian Dovarganes) ASSOCIATED PRESS Moonlighting yields some nice tax dodges. With side income you can: —deduct things you couldn’t from a salary, —grab a 20% “pass-through” freebie, —stuff savings into a Roth account. Say you and your spouse raise Yorkshire terriers. Income from that