The idea of student-debt cancellation initially bubbled up during Occupy Wall Street. Now it’s closer to becoming reality. Emmanuel Dunand/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images If you’ve been on Twitter TWTR, +2.43% lately you may have heard that there’s a possibility that President-elect Joe Biden would cancel some student debt — and you likely saw a lot of […]
Some 30 to 40 million Americans grind their teeth at any given point during the day or night. Many don’t even experience any pain, but that’s changed during the pandemic. MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Americans are fighting through the coronavirus pandemic tooth and nail. Since March, Americans have seen their family, work and home lives disrupted […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Tennessee can begin outlawing abortions because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, as well as prohibit the procedure if it’s based on the race or gender of the fetus. Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee enacted the so-called “reason bans” earlier this year as […]
Peter Beilenson referred to ‘yellow folks’ (Sacramento County) A California city’s chief health official referred to Asian Americans as “yellow folk” during a meeting about racism as a public health crisis. Sacramento County health director Dr Peter Beilenson used the term, widely considered a racist slur, while speaking in support of the resolution earlier this […]
Shares of Nvidia were up 129% for 2020 through Nov. 18. (Getty Images) Investors love momentum stocks, especially if they have jumped on the bandwagon before it’s too late. Then again, maybe it’s too easy to say “too late.” What would you have thought if I had shown you this chart after the market closed […]
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 […]