When Kevin O’Leary was fired from his first job at an ice cream shop as a teenager, he realized he wanted to be his boss. “I made up my mind that day…. And I’ve never worked for anybody ever since,” he previously told CNBC Make It. And on CNBC’s new webisode series “Got a Money Dispute? Ask Kevin,” O’Leary gave
Jeffrey Ubben Source: BusinessWire Company: Enviva Partners LP (EVA) Business: Enviva is a supplier of utility-grade wood pellets to power generators. The company procures wood fiber and processes it into utility-grade wood pellets and loads the finished wood pellets into railcars, trucks and barges that are transported to deep-water marine terminals, where they are received, stored
The stock market is doing pretty well amid the coronavirus recession. You probably won’t benefit. MicroStockHub The stock market has proved freakishly immune to the economic suffering inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic, posting some of its largest gains in history even as members in 1 in 2 American households have lost income. Yet the fact that the market
Willie the Wildcat fires up the fans in the first quarter of a Big 12 football game between the West Virginia Mountaineers and Kansas State Wildcats on November 16, 2019 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan, KS. Scott Winter | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images For Russ Loub and the Little Apple Brewing Co.,
Marina Pointe is among the new highly walkable communities along waterfronts in Tampa, Fla. BTI Partners Back in the 1970s, between years of grad school, I rode the rails around the country on an Amtrak railpass. When the pass and my cash expired, I found myself in Tampa. I got a room at the fleabag
Somerville’s Division St., a usually bustling pedestrian street, pictured from Main Street. In the front of the image is a sign for Somerville’s weekly cruise nights, which are “on hiatus due to Covid-19.” June 9, 2020. Will Feuer Somerville, New Jersey has enjoyed a rising tide in recent years. Main Street is usually bustling, drawing
A sign is posted in front of a Hertz car sales and rental car office on August 8, 2017 in South San Francisco, California. Getty Images Check out the companies making the biggest moves in midday trading Friday: Adobe — Shares of the software company jumped more than 4% following second-quarter earnings results. Adobe reported a profit
In 1981, 26-year-old Bill Gates found the time to create one of the world’s earliest computer games. Called Donkey.bas, or just “Donkey,” it was essentially an old-school arcade driving game where players steered a digital racecar down a straight highway littered with, well, donkeys. The point of the game, simply, was to avoid crashing into the
A trader walks by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the first day that traders are allowed back onto the historic floor of the exchange on May 26, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Traders baffled by the unprecedented market whipsaw are scrambling to buy protection against more rough sledding ahead.
Matt Marfoglia, a waiter at the Tasting Kitchen in Los Angeles, was furloughed in March. Enhanced unemployment benefits are helping him make ends meet financially, but they may end after July. Matt Marfoglia Matt Marfoglia was living paycheck to paycheck before the coronavirus pandemic. Now, while unemployed, he’s barely scraping by. The 51-year-old was furloughed