Wealth

If you want to be rich, you have to know your numbers. How much do you spend on groceries? On entertainment? On gifts? Even how much you tip matters. I understand that it can be hard. When your finances aren’t where you want them to be, it’s sometimes easier to just avoid looking at them.

In 2001, at 22 years old, I moved out of my mom’s basement in Atlanta and into a sublet in the housing projects of Manhattan. I got a job as a technical support operator making $45,000 a year. When I told my friends and family that I was going to get rich off real estate

Within five years of moving to Europe, businessman Douglas Loewe “fell in love” with Barcelona, he said. He decided to buy a home there, spending about 500,000 euros ($545,000) to purchase an apartment in the city’s famous Eixample neighborhood in 1999, the senior operating partner at Macquarie said. But by 2017, Loewe felt the two-bedroom

Barack Obama is no stranger to bleak circumstances — maintaining a positive attitude despite them helps him stay in high spirits. Obama, 61, discussed the top tactic he uses to remain level-headed in an interview with comedian Hasan Minhaj published on Wednesday. Minhaj asked the former president, who he dubbed the “hope and change guy,”

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly being used in financial services — but they come with some serious risks around discrimination. Sadik Demiroz | Photodisc | Getty Images AMSTERDAM — Artificial intelligence has a racial bias problem. From biometric identification systems that disproportionately misidentify the faces of Black people and minorities, to applications of voice recognition

There are many ways for everyday investors to make a real impact on issues like climate change, gun violence, and racial and economic justice. As a partner at Values Added Financial, which manages $150 million of investable wealth for about 80 households, I advise people on how to use their money to do right by

Money can’t buy you happiness, but can $230 billion buy you a TKO?  Elon Musk is apparently ready to find out, with the world’s richest man having challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a “cage match” — an offer that the martial arts-loving Facebook co-founder quickly agreed to.  “This is real bad blood. This is a beef

In this article QAN-AU Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT From popping melatonin to making fists with your toes, passengers have long employed strategies to combat the negative effects of air travel. But airlines can play a role too, according to new research from Qantas and the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre. The research

Today, Barbara Corcoran is the picture of success: a star on ABC’s “Shark Tank” and a successful real estate entrepreneur. As a 23-year-old struggling to get by, however, Corcoran’s life looked vastly different.  Speaking to her 23-year-old self, Corcoran provided words of encouragement in a recent LinkedIn post: ”Yeah, I know it feels like you’ve had

Between his own business success and his investments in hundreds of startups, Mark Cuban knows what it takes to be highly successful. There’s one trait you should cultivate above all others if you want to be successful too, he says. “The one thing in life you can control is your effort,” Cuban, 64, recently said