Month: June 2019

Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist told CNBC on Monday that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan to eliminate outstanding student loan debt in the country ignores the real problem of going to college. The Vermont independent’s legislation seeks to cancel $1.6 trillion in existing loans by taxing stock and bond transactions. Norquist took a jab at
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Sidewalk Labs’ grand plan for its “smart neighborhood” on Toronto’s waterfront includes residential, commercial, and retail space. Courtesy of Sidewalk Labs After a year and a half of public hearings and criticism, Google sibling company Sidewalk Labs just unveiled its master plan to redevelop a stretch of Toronto’s waterfront with “smart” features like snow-melting roadways,
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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 takes up eligibility for restricted applications, potential effects of early retirement benefits on later spousal benefits, filing before 70 to allow spousal benefits, determining Primary Insurance Amounts (PIA)s and the
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Karen Simons Source: Karen Simons Karen Simons was out of the professional world for more than 20 years to raise her three children. Now she’s a financial planner at the investment advisory firm Yeske Buie. She made that change happen through a “returnship,” the grown-up version of a college internship that companies are increasingly offering
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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to the crowd during the 2019 South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on June 22, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. Sean Rayford | Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders will announce a plan on Monday to erase the country’s $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan tab, intensifying the higher
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Climate change has created a huge demand for sustainable and resilient design and construction. Climate-resilient design focuses on the design of buildings, landscapes, communities and regions to respond to natural disasters and the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels, increasing heat waves and regional droughts. For real estate professionals, climate-resilient strategies ensure
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The flags of the U.S. and China. Holger Gogolin | iStock | Getty Images BEIJING — The Chinese government would like the U.S. to cancel “inappropriate” actions against Chinese companies, vice commerce minister Wang Shouwen said Monday. The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added five Chinese technology companies to the so-called entity list that effectively
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Jim Umpleby, CEO of Caterpillar Inc. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Atlantic Equities downgraded Caterpillar to ‘underweight’ from ‘neutral’ Atlantic Equities downgraded the stock citing expectations of weaker macroeconomic growth. “Given the relatively larger reductions to our EPS estimates for CAT and GWW, combined with our
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Scott Hocking “Bone Black” abandoned boats “bone black” paint pigment Natasha Gural Scott Hocking throws wide the doors to a leviathan abandoned building, once used to assemble cranes, exposing his Bone Black art installation to a group of fellow artists and journalists in Detroit for a preview of Cranbrook Art Museum’s Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, and
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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 addresses filing a restricted application for spousal benefits only versus filing and suspending a retirement benefit, the earnings test, the possibility of collecting past benefits not filed for and
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