Month: December 2022

It’s time to start treating handbags like a legitimate investment. In 2020, the investment potential of handbags outpaced rare artwork, cars and whiskey, according to Art Market Research. By 2027, the market is expected to reach $100 billion, compared to today’s $72 billion. As the founder of Rebag, a designer handbag resale site, I’ve kept
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bymuratdeniz | E+ | Getty Images For retirees, a new year means adjusting to changes in a variety of Medicare costs, including premiums, deductibles and copays. For 2023, some of those costs will be higher than they were this year, while others are going down. Although each change doesn’t necessarily involve a huge dollar amount,
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With the holidays soon gone, the annual January spending hangover awaits. It’s around this time when families have to pay credit card bills and face the splurge of spending that they undertook in December. With the holiday damage on top of mind, it also provides a fantastic moment to help teach, guide or inform your
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It’s not by accident that this Italian farmhouse near Rome seems to ooze antiquity and charm. The ivy-covered home occupies a bucolic site where historical artifacts dating to 200 B.C. have been uncovered. Surrounded by the Appia Antica Park, also known as the Appian Way Regional Park, the 5,000-square-meter (about 1.25-acre) property is hedged with
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In this article LUV Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown will “certainly” hit its fourth-quarter results, executives said Thursday, adding that it will take several weeks to work through affected travelers’ reimbursement requests. The systemwide chaos stranded hundreds of thousands of customers over the holiday week and drew scrutiny from Washington.
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The largest investment on ABC’s “Shark Tank” in 2022 didn’t go to a robotics company or a vegan food empire. Instead, it went toward cold-water baths. On a May 2022 episode, Robert Herjavec offered $2.4 million to Plunge, a Lincoln, California-based company that sells tubs designed for cold-water immersion. The baths cost nearly $5,000 and
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In this article RSX RSXJ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia November 25, 2022.  Alexander Shcherbak | Sputnik | Reuters VanEck is liquidating its Russia-centric exchange-traded funds after the ongoing war in Europe has
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D3sign | Moment | Getty Images The surge in egg prices has stood out in a year when Americans saw their bills balloon across the grocery store. Average egg prices jumped 49.1% in November compared with those a year earlier — the largest annual percentage increase among all grocery items in that period, according to
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A backup residency and alternate citizenship are critical pieces of an offshore diversification plan and more important today than they’ve ever been in history. Your options for residency overseas are many. Some countries offer a dozen different programs, including “self-sufficiency” options that you qualify for by showing a guaranteed minimum monthly income. Aside from proving
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As cities struggle with post-pandemic growth, a recent Route Fifty story says Midwestern cities are “reaching beyond traditional incentives,” instead “promoting quality of life benefits.” But two of the cities cited depend either on government spending, or on their status as a wealthy suburb in a metro area. That’s very traditional—and inequitable—for growth, and isn’t
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People are seen waiting at the arrivals area of terminal 5 at Heathrow International airport. Carlos Barria | Reuters LONDON — The U.K. and France said Thursday morning they currently had no plans to reintroduce mandatory Covid-19 tests or additional requirements for travelers arriving into the country. U.K. Defense Minister Ben Wallace said Thursday afternoon
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