What a difference a day makes. It’s been a turbulent week for President Donald Trump’s relationship with the nation’s top infectious-disease specialist. With a rise in COVID-19 cases in most U.S. states, particularly Texas, Arizona, California and Florida, and reversals by some of their plans to reopen, the White House appears to have acknowledged that […]
Dear Moneyist, I am a full-time student and I’m 50 years old. I graduate in December 2020 and maintain a 4.0 GPA so I work hard to achieve academic success. Due to achieving such academic prowess, I was limited to work hours throughout the 2019 year and my combined income was $13,000. I separated from […]
Dear Moneyist, Stimulus checks should not be taken for back child support. Not all people who don’t pay or are behind on child support are deadbeat parents. Sometimes s— happens in life and we are forced to miss payments due to various reasons: losing a job, family emergencies, health reasons, etc. There are legitimate reasons […]
Las Vegas police arrested a 28-year-old man who they say livestreamed himself goading a homeless man into doing a backflip for $6. Facebook A homeless man died of a spinal injury 10 days after he was goaded into doing a backflip for $6, Las Vegas police said. Police arrested a 28-year-old man who had livestreamed […]
FILE PHOTO: California’s Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to the media after casting his vote at a voting center at The California Museum for the presidential primaries on Super Tuesday in Sacramento By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom will release new guidelines for opening schools as coronavirus cases continue to mount […]
Fox News host Melissa Francis admitted on Thursday that she doesn’t trust her own network’s polling—conducted by a group considered among the industry’s most trustworthy pollsters—while also claiming on-air that she deliberately misleads pollsters when they call her. With President Donald Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by double digits in many national and […]
DALLAS (AP) — Federal agents have seized more than 20 vehicles and the money from 10 bank accounts belonging to married U.S. Army veterans in Texas, saying the pair used personal information stolen from soldiers to defraud the military out of as much as $11 million. Army investigators obtained warrants last month to confiscate the […]
A North Carolina city has apologized for its historic role in slavery and racial discrimination, and voted to give reparations to its Black community. The Asheville City Council approved of the reparations resolution in a unanimous 7-0 vote on Tuesday night, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported. The reparations won’t come as direct payments to individuals, however. […]
To call him financial services’ Forrest Gump might be a stretch, but Carlos Diez has been behind the scenes of just about every big fund-industry pivot for the past two decades. At the height of the dot-com boom, he saw the business opportunity of a growing consumer class interested in investing, then, a few years […]
Bond investors may be setting themselves up for disappointment if they’re counting on pocketing gains from U.S. interest rates going negative. There is a growing body of research that negative rates are counterproductive. Moreover, the Federal Reserve is aware of this research and appears to be taking it seriously. As a result, it has become […]