Month: August 2020

Million Dollar Beach House, the latest Netflix NFLX offering in the world of reality real estate shows, debuts today. From Beverly Hills to the Hamptons, glimpses into multimillion-dollar homes and the people who sell them have become hot properties.   Million Dollar Beach House From Netflix Netflix Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles boosted the careers
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New cases of the coronavirus continue to fall in the U.S., as does testing across the country, according to data compiled by Covid Tracking Project, a volunteer project founded by journalists at The Atlantic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly revised its testing guidance earlier this week to say that most people without
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Economic forecaster Lakshman Achuthan is delivering an encouraging outlook. He finds a surge in commodity prices suggests the industrial space will lead the next leg of the recovery. “[It] is really firing on all cylinders,” the Economic Cycle Research Institute co-founder told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. He builds his bullish case in a chart
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Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday saw his net worth soar above $202 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the first person to cross the $200 billion threshold. He’s now $78 billion richer than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who stands at number two. The Amazon
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Tenants of the Woodner apartment building in Washington, D.C., protest to demand their rent be forgiven during the Covid-19 pandemic. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Unemployed workers living in most U.S. cities can’t cover basic living expenses with jobless benefits alone. In fact, Americans living in just 12 out of 109 metro areas could afford
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The Covid-19 crisis is requiring everyone to do something that former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss built a career on: make tough, stressful decisions. “I like action, I hate inaction and inertia, and with the pandemic, it is requiring us to make decisions,” said Voss, who now runs his own consulting firm, Black Swan Group.
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Dollar bills, calculator and 401 k Plan getty Readers, after publishing my prior article, with the clunky title, “Joe Biden Promises To End Traditional 401(k)-Style Retirement Savings Tax Benefits. What’s That Mean?” I received, generally speaking, two types of feedback: first, challenging me with respect to my statements, in general, of Biden’s plan; and, second,
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Stephanie Soong Johnston, chief correspondent for Tax Notes Today International and Robert Goulder, contributing editor for Tax Notes International discuss the recent Apple AAPL State Aid decision and the long term consequences on global tax reform. Here are a few highlights . . . On the timeline leading up to the Apple state aid case  Stephanie Soong Johnston: In September
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