Wealth

Dima_sidelnikov | Istock | Getty Images Recent headlines underscore the fragility of the stock market and, along with it, the ability for many investors to make reasonable decisions about their retirement readiness. Many who recall the violent reaction their portfolios had in the Dot Com Bubble and the Financial Crisis would prefer to avoid the

Mark Zuckerberg’s has long been fascinated with Ancient Rome. Now he has his very own triumvirate. The Facebook co-founder on Friday announced the birth of his third child, revealing that he and his wife Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg have named the baby Aurelia. Zuckerberg shared the first photo of his newborn in an Instagram post, calling

Visualspace | E+ | Getty Images Over the past year, there’s been a wave of confusion around tax reporting for payment apps like Venmo and PayPal, along with e-commerce companies such as eBay, Etsy and Poshmark. But the IRS provided clarification in an update this week. The 2022 threshold for Form 1099-K, which reports third-party business payments to

As a young, avid collector of luxury watches, Austen Chu said he was scammed “many times” when he bought timepieces from the secondary watch market.  “Once, I bought a watch which had a dented dial and the seller told me that the dial got dented during shipping,” Chu recalled. And he believed it.  But now,

Over the last 50 years, Americans have eradicated smallpox, reduced infant mortality rates and deaths from heart disease by around 70%, added a decade to the average American’s life and invented the internet. When it comes to the national poverty rate, however, we’ve made almost no progress. In 1970, a little more than 12% of

Hong Kong has been named the most expensive location in Asia for business travelers — for the second year in a row, according to a new report.  ECA International’s latest Daily Rates research ranked countries based on costs for short trip expenses: four-star hotel rooms, meals, laundry, alcoholic and soft drinks, journeys by taxi and

Finland has been named the happiest country in the world — again. The Nordic country topped the “World Happiness Report 2023,” published this week by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which measures factors such as income, mental and physical health and societal generosity. According to the report: “Finland continues to occupy the top

Valtteri Heinila was working in a startup when he realized he needed a break. “I started noticing time really accelerating,” said Valtteri, 26. The days started to blur, and then so did the months, he said. He didn’t settle for a regular holiday. Instead, he traveled 15,400 kilometers (9,600 miles) along a route from Finland

Even artificial intelligence wants to learn from Bill Gates. When the Microsoft co-founder sat down for an interview with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last month, the two answered questions generated by a ChatGPT-like AI chatbot. The bot asked Gates about the best advice he’s ever received and how it has influenced his own life.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (C) arrives at federal court with her mother Noel Holmes (L) and father Christian Holmes on September 01, 2022 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes hasn’t paid back over $25 million to creditors of her former Theranos company as she tries to delay her 11-year