By Gretchen Brown, Next Avenue Contributor Getty Julie (who prefers to use a pseudonym for this story), 54, wants to get her daughter through college without incurring any student loans for the $30,000 annual tuition. So, she helped fund her daughter’s freshman year by taking out a kind of second mortgage — a home equity
The robots are coming for the tax planners, but from what I can see, we will probably last longer than the truck drivers. This is my tentative conclusion from poking around with Blue J Legal’s Tax Foresight. I spoke with CEO Ben Alarie about the company and the product. Then he had his team give
Steve Carell, Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Aniston speak at the Apple Spring Event on March 25th, 2019. Source: Apple Amazon on Thursday announced that the Apple TV app is now available on the Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick 4K in the United States and several other countries around the world. The launch comes just
Dow Inc. beat Wall Street estimates for profit in the third quarter as it cut costs to offset a sharp slowdown in demand for the chemicals it makes for plastics and other manufacturing, sending shares almost 2% higher. An oversupply of ethylene and polyethylene as well as the impact of U.S.-China trade tensions on demand
A sign is posted outside of the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images PayPal had a break-out quarter, sending its stock surging after reporting earnings. The payments company beat Wall Street’s estimates across the board for the third-quarter results Wednesday evening. Investors applauded the outperformance, sending PayPal shares up more
Virgin Galactic spacecraft Unity fires its engine and heads to space with its first test passenger on board in February 2019. Virgin Galactic | gif by @thesheetztweetz Private space tourism is about to go public. Shareholders approved Virgin Galactic’s merger with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya’s special purpose vehicle on Wednesday, according to SEC filings, setting
Camille Wood walks dogs as a side hustle. Source: Camille Wood Camille Wood is a personal assistant, dog sitter and host at The Second City, a comedy club in Chicago. “During a typical week, I’m doing something for pay pretty much every day,” she said. “I needed the extra money for student loans and city
High five to the smart business owner who uses a Solo 401(k) to lower the taxes on their S-Corp. Getty Nobody likes paying more taxes than they need too. Small business owners are lucky to have many opportunities to keep more of their hard-earned money through expert tax planning. One of the biggest ways to slash
The artwork-filled “living room” at Legacy.com headquarters is a life-affirming gathering spot for … [+] the employees of a technology company specializing in memorials. Paul Schlismann Photography For a few years now, a movement has been underway to transition offices from all work to partial work and more than a little play. The “office as
Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column address whether to take retroactive benefits at 70, spousal benefits before retirement benefits, divorced spousal benefits with a public pension, when spousal benefits become available and filing early to allow spousal benefits. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president of Economic
The situation surrounding a Hong Kong man accused of murder in Taiwan has become a diplomatic dispute — and it concerns the sensitive issue surrounding Taiwan’s sovereignty as the self-ruled island enters its election season. The case will “feature heavily in Taiwan media once he returns,” said Kelsey Broderick, China analyst at risk consultancy Eurasia
Grounded Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are seen parked in an aerial photo at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Boeing is expected to report third-quarter earnings before the market opens on Wednesday, as the aerospace giant faces a crisis with its top-selling 737 Max aircraft line. Here’s what Wall Street expects: EPS:
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk reacts during a conversation at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, June 13, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Tesla shares surged more than 14% during extended trade after a big earnings beat. Tesla reported earnings of $1.86 per share
Jeffrey Vinik Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeffrey Vinik, the billionaire investor who relaunched his hedge fund earlier this year, is cutting his comeback tour short. “It has been much harder to raise money over the last several months than I anticipated,” Vinik said in a letter dated Wednesday to investors. The
MoMo Productions | Taxi | Getty Images Forget rent. Cash-strapped millennials who are starting families have a new cost on the horizon: child care. In 30 states and Washington, D.C., the annual cost of sending an infant to a child care center exceeds the annual in-state tuition and fees at a public college, according to
null Getty Today, the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program published a report, “The Time is Now: Next Steps Toward a More Secure Retirement for All,” based and consensus ideas from its Leadership Forum on Retirement Savings, which convened “more than 70 experts and industry leaders” to “share, evaluate, and refine solutions to the nation’s retirement
The real estate market’s fluidity makes it a place where trends are always changing. Developing trends usually take a few years to enter the mainstream and become the norm. Because of this, smart agents and investors keep their fingers on the pulse of the industry so that they can adapt to those trends well before everyone
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin “Let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand,” Trump said. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Topline: Hours after Russian troops advanced further into northern Syria, President Trump announced on Wednesday that he will lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey after the country stopped hostilities and complied with a
Seema Verma testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on her nomination to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, on February 16, 2017. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Centers for Medicare and Medicaid administrator Seema Verma sparred with House Democrats on
Stephen Schwarzman, billionaire and co-founder of Blackstone Group LP, does not believe a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Osaka, Japan at the end of June is likely to result in a major trade deal. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Blackstone, the world’s largest manager of