Month: July 2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is a 2020 presidential candidate. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) When it comes to cancelling your student loans, Elizabeth Warren has a plan for that. Here’s what you need to know. Elizabeth Warren: Let’s Cancel Student Loan Debt Sen. Warren (D-MA), a 2020 presidential candidate, introduced legislation today – the Student
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I’ve done everything from painting walls and rearranging furniture to taking out the garbage if a seller forgot. I’d do just about anything if I thought it would help sell a property. All of these things matter, but I’ve learned that there’s one extra thing you can do to make your listing stand out, create
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Whether the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) disproportionately helped the rich may be 2020’s biggest political issue. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin claims that it benefited most Americans. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) calls it a massive giveaway to the rich. Who’s right? Unfortunately, no one can tell from the TCJA studies done to
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Facing the prospect of millions, or even billions, of dollars in potential liabilities tied to the nation’s opioid epidemic, one drugmaker has a nimble plan: spin those liabilities into a separate company. Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, the U.K.-based drugmaker best known for selling a $1 billion-a-year medicine called H.P. Acthar Gel, told investors in December it planned
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Young woman using laptop in a loft apartment Xsandra | E+ | Getty Images It doesn’t necessarily take a bachelor’s degree to land a well-paying, full-time, remote job. In fact, more companies are looking at qualifications beyond a formal education, thanks to the fierce competition for talent brought on by the 3.7% unemployment rate and
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The Social Security 2019 Trustees Report projects that the Social Security trust fund will be depleted by 2035. That report triggered “The sky is falling” recommendations from numerous sources that you start Social Security as early as you can, before the fund is exhausted completely. But that would be a bad bet. Setting the record straight
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Blue World Voyages offering 40 luxury residences for sale Blue World Voyages Blue World Voyages, billing itself as the “world’s first sports, fitness and wellness-focused” cruise line recently joined forces with Compass Florida, the luxury brokerage firm to market 40 luxury residences on its 720-foot inaugural ship. Each cruise on this custom redesigned ship can accommodate
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Student Loan Debt Repayment Photo credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s time to pay off your student loans faster. Here’s what you need to know. Student Loan Repayment: Follow these 25 rules Rule #1: Student loan repayment is an active process, not a passive one. If you invest the time and do the work, you can save money
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They started out studying the immune response to brain tumors in children. But what they found may not only stop tumors from growing, but halt Alzheimer’s disease as well. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital—the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children—have discovered a pathway that prevents the buildup of
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin BRAZIL – 2019/05/31: In this photo illustration the Equifax logo is seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images Section 162(f) of the tax code prohibits deducting any fine or similar penalty paid to a government for the violation
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A video still from the NBC archive showing Donald Trump talking with Jeffrey Epstein at a party in Mar-A-Lago from 1992. NBC Check out these names. The “black book” of wealthy financier and now-accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is a smorgasbord of high-profile, powerful people, including Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince
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TD Ameritrade is introducing a new place to check your portfolio: while sitting in traffic. The financial services company announced in-vehicle features Monday that let drivers check their balances and portfolio performance, or get a stock quote through voice commands from behind the wheel. “In a connected world like ours, we have to meet investors
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