The Royal Mint’s Raris payment card is made from 18-karat gold. The Royal Mint Britain’s Royal Mint has produced a solid gold payment card — and you’ll need to fork out £18,750 ($23,460) to buy one. The government-owned company, responsible for minting coins for the U.K., said it partnered up with Mastercard and payments technology
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David Rea, president of No. 1-rated financial advisor firm Salem Investment Counselors, attributes his start in the business to excellent professors at Indiana University while he was pursuing an MBA. Salem Investment Counselors Everyone loves a good origin story, whether it’s fictional, like Superman’s, or real life — think Warren Buffett or Steve Jobs —
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos. David Orrell | CNBC Elizabeth Holmes, who once presided over blood-testing startup Theranos which was valued at $9 billion, can’t pay her legal bills in a class-action civil suit, according to her lawyers in the case at the law firm Cooley LLP. Cooley is handling a class-action civil
It has become the two-word rallying cry at Sen. Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign events: “Two cents! Two cents!” Warren’s wealth tax, which taxes wealth over $50 million at 2%, has quickly become the energizing force of her campaign and helped propel her rise in the polls. Her surge not only speaks to the popularity of
Microsoft came out with major announcements this week, and possibly its biggest hardware risks since Xbox. The Surface Neo, which has two screens with a hinge in between, is coming next year. Plus, the Surface Pro X, is arguably the first ARM-based computer to run full Windows 10. Has Microsoft changed the game here? Or are
A gallery assistant poses with an artwork entitled ‘Devolved Parliament’ by British artist Banksy, during a press view in London on September 27, 2019, ahead of Sotheby’s contemporary art sale, as part of the Frieze Art Fair. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images A Banksy painting depicting primates conducting business as usual in British
Trump International Hotel & Tower New York building is seen from the balcony of an apartment unit in the AvalonBay Communities Inc. Park Loggia condominium at 15 West 61 Street in New York, May 15, 2019. Mark Abramson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Prices for Manhattan real estate took their biggest plunge since the 2008
Elizabeth Holmes leaves a federal courthouse in San Jose. Meghan Mariani Defense attorneys for former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny “Ramesh” Balwani criticized prosecutors Wednesday for stalling to turn over what they call key documents that would clear their clients. “The evidence produced so far confirms our belief that certain documents directly contradict allegations
CNBC’s Jim Cramer believes Wall Street should be much more afraid of Bernie Sanders in the White House of than of Elizabeth Warren. Vermont Sen. Sanders, who describes himself as a Democratic socialist, wants to “make people who are billionaires lower than billionaires,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street” on Wednesday. Sanders is “basically
Wall Street’s abject fear of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren getting into the White House is a mistake, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “The fear of Sen. Warren is getting overblown,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” three weeks after he said that financial industry CEOs were telling him that “she’s got to be stopped.”