Ziga Plahutar Regrets are a part of life. Money regrets have a particularly sharp tang, though. It’s difficult not to look back and calculate just what that past misstep is costing you now. Nadia Malik, 36, a personal finance blogger in Dallas, wishes she’d saved more in her early 20s. “I had already been working
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Wealth Losses In the Pandemic Hurt All Households Getty Households lost $6.5 trillion early in the pandemic. Most of this decline came from sharply lower stock prices and thus especially hurt the wealthiest American households. Yet even less wealthy ones saw a substantial drop in their wealth and those wealth losses are more likely to
Getty Timing is everything. This has never been truer when it comes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. From the moment PPP loans became available to small businesses on April 3, 2020, it has been a mad rush to get things filed and spent within certain specific dates. Further, it has not been uncommon for Treasury
Founder, CEO of Blue Lake Capital LLC. Helps passive investors grow wealth through real estate. Podcast Host: Ready2Scale. Mentor. Getty Before answering that important question, it’s best to gain an understanding of why some investors avoid out-of-state investments while others embrace the concept. Investing in real estate, particularly multifamily properties, that is close to home has
A stack of 60 SpaceX Starlink satellites float in orbit above the Earth. Source: SpaceX To fund its Martian ambitions, SpaceX intends to transform the Earth — blanketing the planet in ubiquitous internet coverage beamed down from a tight-fitting mesh of thousands of satellites. CEO Elon Musk expects this “Starlink” service to eventually generate $30
Traders wearing masks work inside posts, on the first day of in-person trading since the closure during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 26, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters U.S. stock futures fell on Sunday night as coronavirus cases
A worker on a Chesapeake Energy natural gas rig in Fort Worth, Texas Matt Nager | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chesapeake Energy, the poster child of the U.S. shale revolution, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday. The move comes as the company and industry more broadly has been rocked by a drop in oil and
The reception desk at luxury boutique property Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern in Saugerties, New York, features sneeze guards. Guests and staff must wear face masks in public areas. Gina Hornbeck/Diamond Mills Hotel & Tavern Like most components of travel in the Covid-19 era, hotel check-in has changed — perhaps, in many ways, for good.
Workers protest (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images As the nation the moves into an uncertain and wobbly relationship with the Covid-19 virus, it would be both just and smart to pay more to essential workers for risking their lives in the field. Hazard
Ice Cube: Why are we paying taxes right now? (Photo by Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images) Getty Images Rapper-turned-Hollywood celeb Ice Cube has some advice for Washington’s coronavirus relief efforts that Wall Street will absolutely love: read his lips, don’t pay taxes. The Compton rapper was responding to a Time magazine report that highlighted how a
Brokers are seeing foreign buyers looking to scoop up real estate deals in Manhattan. Getty As the New York real estate industry navigates a new normal of slow sales and an oversupply of luxury listings, investment interest is coming from an unexpected place — Italy. Italian buyers, seeking a place to park their money as
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azar wears a face mask while attending a press briefing about coronavirus testing in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar warned Sunday that time was running out for the
Mastercard credit cards Roberto Machado Noa/ LightRocket via Getty Images How to find compelling stocks primed to outperform during a volatile second half of the year? Here are a few of the names the best-performing Wall Street analysts are betting on right now. As fears of a resurgence in the coronavirus sweep the globe, it could
PeopleImages | E+ | Getty Images Deciding when to take your Social Security retirement benefits is a crucial decision no matter when you make it. Making that call during the coronavirus pandemic can raise the stakes. That’s because the age at which you decide to claim will lock in the amount of monthly income you
Getty Many people relate to 401(k) and 403(b) plans, which feature optional employer matching contributions. (There are other plan types such as the SIMPLE plan, which offers an employer match, which we are leaving out of this article.) Some employees say that if the company does not match their contribution, they simply won’t save. But
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about whether delaying filing is always merited, paying back taxes, whether filing early to avoid potential cuts to Social Security makes sense, disability and survivor benefits and filing options during the pandemic. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
Call it what you will. The Covid-19 pandemic. The Great Lockdown. The Coronavirus Recession. Whatever label you give it, it remains unprecedented. Never in history has more than 60 percent of the global population come under this kind of lock-and-key restrictions all at once. The effects of the shutdowns range country to country. But in
A man wearing a PPE mask passes a mural on the side of a building in midtown New York City June 26, 2020. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 10 million Sunday, with the U.S. leading the way, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins
Good news for investors: Your broker-dealer is going to have to disclose a lot more about what he or she is advising you to buy or sell. Regulation Best Interest, or Reg BI, is coming into effect June 30 after more than two years of controversy and discussion. It requires broker-dealers — those who
A patient arrives to Wyckoff Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on April 5, 2020. Bryan R. Smith | AFP | Getty Images An unfortunate side effect can accompany a job loss: no more employer-subsidized health insurance. For people age 65 or older in that situation, Medicare is generally the solution. While some in that age
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