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Madonna – the best-selling female recording artist of all time – may well have the last commercial laugh in 2019. Some critics wrote the star off this weekend after her Eurovision performance, and said that many younger pretenders now have captured her pop crown. Madonna, who is 60, is...
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It follows a move last week that saw the Trump administration add Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist. The resulting restrictions make doing business with U.S. firms a huge challenge. According to the story broken by Reuters, Google has suspended all business with Huawei “that requires the transfer of hardware,...
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Index funds are not evil, they are not destroying the markets, and will not blow-up your portfolio. To the contrary, they have outperformed most active investment strategies and continue to save investors billions of dollars per year in fees. As index investing became popular and assets flowed in, news...
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Robert F. Smith, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, just gave the ultimate graduation gift to the Morehouse College Class of 2019: Smith said he will pay off each graduate’s student loan debt – in full. Here’s what you need to know. The Gift of All Gifts: Student Loan Forgiveness...
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This highly feared scenario, one that would savage world markets, leapt to mind last week as Washington suffered its worst debt sale in a decade. And if Donald Trump is looking to assign blame, the U.S. president needn’t stretch his imagination very far: China. The fingerprints of Trump’s favorite...
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China’s hottest new coffee chain momentarily catapulted its founder into the billionaires club, less than 20 months after the startup opened its first trial location in Beijing. Luckin Coffee, whose ascendance in the world’s second-largest economy has already minted its early investor Charles Zhengyao Lua billionaire, opened trading shortly after...
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James C. Justice II is many things. He is a coal mining billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. He is the 36th governor of West Virginia. He owns (along with his kids) some 100 companies. He was elected as a Democrat, but switched parties once in office....
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You don’t have to be a statistician to know that Nashville, Tennessee, is booming. Cranes dominate the skyline and, every day, about 100 people move to the region. Visitors to the city have swelled from 2 million a year in 1998 to 15.2 million visitors in 2018. Not long...
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Phil Knight was 24 years old when he started Blue Ribbon Sports, the company that would become Nike. Unlike Knight, who was an avid runner and sports enthusiast, Rachel Feinberg and Breanne Harrison-Pollock, both 26 years old, were not gamers but simply two best friends who unlocked the mysterious...
Madonna – the best-selling female recording artist of all time – may well have the last commercial laugh in 2019. Some critics wrote the star off this weekend after her Eurovision performance, and said that many younger pretenders now have captured her pop crown. Madonna, who is 60, is...
It follows a move last week that saw the Trump administration add Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to a trade blacklist. The resulting restrictions make doing business with U.S. firms a huge challenge. According to the story broken by Reuters, Google has suspended all business with Huawei “that requires the transfer of hardware,...
Index funds are not evil, they are not destroying the markets, and will not blow-up your portfolio. To the contrary, they have outperformed most active investment strategies and continue to save investors billions of dollars per year in fees. As index investing became popular and assets flowed in, news...
Robert F. Smith, a billionaire investor and philanthropist, just gave the ultimate graduation gift to the Morehouse College Class of 2019: Smith said he will pay off each graduate’s student loan debt – in full. Here’s what you need to know. The Gift of All Gifts: Student Loan Forgiveness...
This highly feared scenario, one that would savage world markets, leapt to mind last week as Washington suffered its worst debt sale in a decade. And if Donald Trump is looking to assign blame, the U.S. president needn’t stretch his imagination very far: China. The fingerprints of Trump’s favorite...
China’s hottest new coffee chain momentarily catapulted its founder into the billionaires club, less than 20 months after the startup opened its first trial location in Beijing. Luckin Coffee, whose ascendance in the world’s second-largest economy has already minted its early investor Charles Zhengyao Lua billionaire, opened trading shortly after...
James C. Justice II is many things. He is a coal mining billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. He is the 36th governor of West Virginia. He owns (along with his kids) some 100 companies. He was elected as a Democrat, but switched parties once in office....
You don’t have to be a statistician to know that Nashville, Tennessee, is booming. Cranes dominate the skyline and, every day, about 100 people move to the region. Visitors to the city have swelled from 2 million a year in 1998 to 15.2 million visitors in 2018. Not long...
Phil Knight was 24 years old when he started Blue Ribbon Sports, the company that would become Nike. Unlike Knight, who was an avid runner and sports enthusiast, Rachel Feinberg and Breanne Harrison-Pollock, both 26 years old, were not gamers but simply two best friends who unlocked the mysterious...
