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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a discussion during the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, August 31, 2019. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A book belonging to Ruth Bader Ginsburg sold for over $100,000 on Thursday in a blockbuster

The highly transmissible omicron Covid-19 variant has some travelers thinking twice about air travel again. While travel bookings are surging this year, some people are sticking with one of the biggest trends to have emerged from the pandemic: the road trip. “With driving you can significantly lower your risk of exposure when interacting with large

In this article MC-FR French luxury group LVMH Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images LVMH Chief Executive Bernard Arnault said Thursday that the metaverse could become a business opportunity for the luxury giant, but “we have to be wary of bubbles” and “we have to sound a

Americans have been quitting their jobs in record numbers in recent months, with 4.5 million workers putting in their notice in November. And while having a conversation with your boss to tell them you’ve decided to quit can be stressful, it doesn’t have to be, “Money Court” judge and O’Shares ETFs chairman Kevin O’Leary tells

The Good Brigade | DigitalVision | Getty Images Diversity among financial planners improved in 2021 though the industry remains one that leans heavily toward white men, according to statistics issued Wednesday by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. The group, which issues the certified financial planner designation, saw a pronounced uptick in female, Black

Bangkok revels in its status as a culinary mecca. From wizened street vendors who perform alchemy with sizzling woks to whiz-kid chefs who are shaping the fine dining scene, the city lays claim to one of the world’s most multifaceted food scenes. That’s why eating is a thread that runs through even a short stay

Justice Ruth Ginsburg Joanne Rathe | The Boston Globe | Getty Images More than 1,000 books from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library are up for auction — and things are getting expensive. Bidders are spending thousands of dollars on individual items, including dense law-school textbooks marked up with Ginsburg’s own annotations,

Thinking of borrowing for college? Don’t do it: It’s far too risky, far too expensive and, in many cases, a waste of money. These are strong, unexpected words coming from a college professor and economist. To be clear, I’m not saying anyone should give up on getting a college degree. But there is a much

There are “encouraging signs of recovery” in Singapore’s tourism sector, according to the Singapore Tourism Board. Visitor arrivals reached 330,000 and tourism receipts reached an estimated $1.9 billion Singapore dollars ($1.4 billion) in 2021, according to data published today by the nation’s tourism board. These numbers, however, are down from 2020, when Singapore received 2.7

Jeff Bezos once told former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo that a good leader trusts his gut. Now, Costolo says Twitter’s newest CEO should take that same advice to heart. Shortly after Costolo became Twitter’s CEO in 2010, his team sat down to strategize with the Amazon founder and billionaire investor, who took a stake in

In this article AMS-ES HTG-DE EXPE If 2021 was about domestic travel, 2022 may be the year of the “bucket list” trip. This is one of the biggest trends that travel insiders expect this year, despite 2022’s tumultuous start as the omicron Covid-19 variant snarled the industry. ‘New sense of urgency’ to hit the road

Bill Gates is excited about how many new climate tech start-ups have popped up in recent years. He also thinks that plenty of them won’t last. “The number of companies working on these things is very exciting,” Gates said on Wednesday, in a virtual session of the World Economic Forum. “Some of them will fail.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months. The country — whose tight, pandemic border policies locked out its citizens, and more recently, one of tennis’s biggest stars — is encouraging backpackers to visit. And it’s doing so because it wants

In this article PTON Peloton executives and insiders sold nearly $500 million worth of their stock before its big decline, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company’s stock is down more than 80% from its highs last year, and it hit a 52-week low of $29.11 Tuesday. Yet the company’s CEO

For billionaire investor Mark Cuban, there was one defining moment that led him to go all in on cryptocurrency. “I always paid attention to bitcoin, the pricing, the tokens and the [crypto]currencies,” Cuban told Miami Mayor Francis Suarez at The North American Bitcoin Conference on Monday. “But what really got me into it was, about

In this article RBLX WMT NKE RL Customers exit a Ralph Lauren Corp. store in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet said Monday that the fashion brand is chasing opportunities in the metaverse as a way to attract younger shoppers. At the National Retail Federation’s annual

A pedestrian wearing a face mask delivers food to a homeless person sleeping in the entrance of a shop, closed due to coronavirus restrictions, in central London on December 23, 2020. Tolga Akmen | AFP | Getty Images The pandemic has made the rich richer while the income of the rest of the world —

Billionaire Mark Cuban is mostly investing in cryptocurrency nowadays. “The investments I’m making now are not in traditional businesses,” Cuban said on a recent episode of “The Problem With Jon Stewart” podcast. In fact, “80% of the investments that I make that are not on ‘Shark Tank’ are in or around cryptocurrencies.” One type of

Common biases that lead to bad money moves Morningstar’s behavioral finance research team found that nearly all Americans show at least one of four common biases, and that higher levels of these biases directly correlate with worse financial outcomes compared to peers, including poorer credit scores and lower balances in savings and investing accounts. The

When considering any cryptocurrency investment, billionaire investor Mark Cuban looks for utility in each project. That’s why, to him, “tokens trading are the least important part of crypto,” he tweeted on Tuesday. Instead, Cuban sees smart contracts, or collections of code that power decentralized applications, and how they’re used within projects as the most important