As the nation’s attention was focused on who would be the next president the day after the Nov. 3 election, Sierra Graves was busy grabbing as many of her and her three children’s belongings as she could. Just 10 minutes later, sheriff’s deputies knocked on her apartment door to evict her. Graves, 31, rushed through […]
With apologies to Matthew Perry. Quentin Fottrell, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow and Jennifer Aniston. MarketWatch photo illustration/NBC Dear Moneyist, I recently decided to leave my job and start my own business. The success of that business propelled me to go into a new one with a partner, and we are both […]
Dear Moneyist, My mom, brother and I bought a single-family house for $60,000 in 1979. Mom put down $20,000 and paid 22% of the mortgage. My brother paid 45% of the mortgage and I paid 33%. We paid it off in 1988. I married and moved out in 1992, but paid the monthly maintenance until […]
An Amazon Prime membership already gets you deals on retail goods, snappy deliveries and access to video-streaming content. Now, the e-commerce behemoth says it will also get you free two-day deliveries at the newly-announced Amazon Pharmacy, as well as savings on generic and brand-name medication. So what does that mean for consumers’ health and wealth […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Duckworth reacted with “utter disgust” to reports that President Trump has invited Michigan Republican legislative leaders to the White House while he is seeking to overturn the election results in that state. Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, demanded to know why her GOP colleagues in the Senate are not speaking out against […]
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said he tried an unproven, unapproved herbal extract promoted by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell to treat his infection with the coronavirus. “I heard about the oleander extract from Mike,” Carson, a former neurosurgeon, said in an interview, according to the Washington Post. For months, Lindell, who served […]
President-elect Joe Biden is likely to arrive in the White House two months from now with the advantage of low expectations. Democrats would need to win both runoff elections in Georgia to gain control of the U.S. Senate. That’s a tall order. If Democrats had a narrow 51-50 majority in the Senate (with Vice President-elect […]
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday rejected the latest attack on its Hong Kong policy by the U.S. and several of its allies, saying they “should face up to the reality” that the former British colony has been returned to China. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian was responding to a statement on Hong Kong issued […]
Joe Biden campaigned for president on a vow to raise taxes for the rich and corporations so that they’d pay their “fair share” — a vow that made some affluent families game out various investment and estate planning scenarios. That pledge was premised on a “blue wave” where Democrats kept the House of Representatives and […]
Dear Moneyist, I recently decided to leave my job and start my own business. The success of that business propelled me to go into a new one with a partner, and we are both doing very well financially. My issue lies within my friend group. I’m 27 years old and my friends make nowhere near […]