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Demonstrators in a Long Island City park in Queens, New York, protest the planned Amazon HQ2 office on Nov. 26, 2018. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Once a year Amazon celebrates its customers — and itself — by holding a sale. It’s called Amazon Prime Day, and if you’re so inclined, you can often
© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Easy money and trade wars have created a credibility problem for central banks and governments behind major national currencies. That’s bullish for major cryptocurrencies, which have emerged as alternative stores of value, according to somecryptocurrency experts. Alex Karasulu, Co-Founder and CEO of OptDyn, is one of them. “In the 20th
Getty The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a reminder to taxpayers with significant tax debts: reach out now to avoid losing your passport. On December 4, 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or “FAST Act,” became law. Under the FAST Act, the State Department can yank passports from delinquent taxpayers after notification from the IRS
What makes a consumer choose their real estate agent? In an industry largely driven by personal connections, the top two factors when selecting an agent, as identified by both the homebuyers and sellers we surveyed, are local expertise and, as expected, recommendations and referrals. And when differentiating between a good and an excellent agent a
Co-founder and CEO of Periscope, Kayvon Beykpour, speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015. Noam Galai | Getty Images | TechCrunch Following topics on Twitter is a chaotic experience. You type in a matter of interest, like a particular sports team or an event, and your feed fills up with all sorts of irrelevant posts
Julie Wainwright (C), CEO of The RealReal takes part in the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, June 28, 2019. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of RealReal surged 12.7% in after-hours trading after announcing a smaller-than-expected second quarter loss as revenue surged. The
Alan Greenspan Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said nothing is stopping the U.S. from getting sucked into the global trend of negative yielding debt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. “There is international arbitrage going on in the bond market that is helping drive long-term Treasury yields lower,” Greenspan said in a phone
Even with the jobless rate at 3.7%, near a 50-year low, you may have to speak up if you want to get a raise in the year ahead. Wage growth has been sluggish throughout the economic expansion, only recently breaking 3%, despite low unemployment and a tight labor market. Still, most of those gains have
A woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting which left at least 20 people dead, on August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images The threat of gun violence is real enough that business owners, schools and