Blue states around the U.S. are planning tax hikes on wealthy residents to bring in additional revenue through a variety of proposals, including one state’s so-called “Taylor Swift tax.” The moves come after the enactment of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress,…
Café L’Europe, one of the oldest buildings in St. Armands Circle, in Sarasota, Florida, has been flooded four times in the past 18 months. “That last one from Helene completely wiped out the restaurant. Every piece of equipment is ruined… It was gut-wrenching,” John Horne, CEO of Oysters Rock Hospitality,…
Lowe’s plans to provide millions in financial support to small businesses in North Carolina that were hit hard by Hurricane Helene, helping them recover during the holiday season after federal relief temporarily dried up. The $2.5 million fund will provide grants directly to small businesses in the state. It will…
Several Wall Street banks are pitching President Donald Trump about handling the initial public offering (IPO) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sources told FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo. Bartiromo reported Friday morning on “Mornings with Maria” that, “Wall Street banks are cozying up to President Trump right now because they want…
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China appears to be building up a new “leverage point” against foreign nations as it cracks down on rare earths hoarding. Foreign companies purchasing rare earths from China are reportedly being warned against stockpiling them, according to the Financial Times, which cited two people familiar…
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Few things ease financial worry like knowing you can walk away from work anytime you want, having true financial freedom. Closed-end funds (CEFs) give us just that kind of security—and we talk about that a lot in my weekly articles and in my CEF Insider service. With yields of 8%,…
CEO & CLO of Age Brilliantly, Jerry Cahn, Ph.D., J.D., leads Project THRIVE to help businesses and workers benefit from upgrading systems. The recent barrage of almost daily flight delays due to air traffic control problems at Newark Airport exposed a set of challenges (registration required) with wider ramifications beyond…
Fractional Back Offices Powering the Next Wave Startups’ inboxes say it all: “Urgent: Runway Update.” “CFO Search: Need Help.” “DAO Governance: Compliance Nightmare.” Across Silicon Valley and beyond, founders are wrestling with an impossible equation. Rising interest rates have made growth capital dramatically more expensive—and harder to access—forcing startups to…
Nitin Gupta, founder of QRCodeChimp. He’s a technology leader with over two decades of technology development and management experience. I met a young Punjabi entrepreneur at a networking event in San Francisco a few years ago. Let’s say his name was Manjit. As startup founders, we bonded quickly. Manjit was…
Alex Lazovsky is a General Partner at Palo Alto Growth Capital, a VC firm based in Palo Alto, California—the heart of Silicon Valley. Imagine a future freelancer leasing out a slice of their own mind to a multinational corporation for an hour. In this speculative future, neural implants could allow…
Retirement remains top of mind for many Americans, whether they are approaching their so-called “golden years” or have many years to go before leaving the workforce. How much money a person needs to have saved to retire without financial stress is an important consideration in the retirement preparation process, and…
News of a personnel change at the top has caused shares in housebuilder Berkeley Group to sink in end-of-week trading. At £38.52 per share, the FTSE 100 company was last dealing 7.2% lower on Friday. Berkeley – which focuses on home construction in London and the South East of England…
Oil prices climbed over 4% on Tuesday as the Iran-Israel conflict raged with no end in sight, with Brent crude futures reaching a six-month high of $74/bbl. This latest spike underscores a fundamental economic reality: oil remains the lifeblood of global commerce, and its price volatility continues to be one…
Dan Gilbert is one of those rare individuals who has had a huge impact on a large community. I began to understand his philosophy listening to a fascinating interview he gave at the Summit conference in Detroit I attended earlier this month. Detroit had really seen better days when it…
Right now, it feels like there’s a new product launch every hour. You can’t blame people. The tools are all there. With AI, you can spin up a landing page, write copy, generate a logo, create a promo video, even build a semi-working MVP. You can go from idea to…
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