Wealth

If you want to be successful, you have to start by being honest with yourself about some of your biggest weaknesses.  That’s according to billionaire Ray Dalio, who certainly has experienced his share of success as the founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. The hedge fund, which Dalio founded in his New

Google’s dedicated “sustainability” landing page is where the tech giant outlines its goals to combat climate change — like being carbon free by 2030 — and shows status reports on its environmental efforts, such as making a “hyperlocal” air quality map. Combating climate change is a “foundational value” for Google and other Silicon Valley companies,

Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors drives to the basket against the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2021 NBA Play-In Tournament on May 19, 2021 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, California. Adam Pantozzi | National Basketball Association | Getty Images NBA star Steph Curry is now setting his sights on closing the

For two decades, former New York Yankees star C.C. Sabathia was one of the best and highest-paid pitchers in Major League Baseball, grossing more than $260 million throughout his career until he retired in 2019. In 2008, Sabathia signed what was then the largest contract for a starting MLB pitcher: a seven-year, $161 million deal. In his

Dubai is already home to the world’s tallest building. Now it can lay claim to the world’s deepest diving pool too. Deep Dive Dubai opened on July 7, just 10 days after being named the world’s deepest diving pool by the Guinness World Records. The new indoor pool is nearly 200 feet deep and holds

Sterling notes and coins are laid out for a photo. Matt Cardy | Getty Images LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic has further widened the U.K.’s wealth gap, with the richest 10% of households seeing an average gain of £51,238 ($70,977) during the crisis, according to a new report.  The U.K.’s poorest households, meanwhile, saw their

As Americans recover from the widespread economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, some are already looking ahead and putting “financial defenses” in place to head off the next period of uncertainty. More than half, 58%, of Americans say they’re in “financial recovery mode,” according to Northwestern Mutual’s recent 2021 Planning & Progress Study. The annual survey,

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is still known as the fastest man alive and one of the richest athletes. In 2018, Bolt was ranked at No. 45 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the 100 richest athletes in the world. He earned $31 million in 2017, when he officially retired. But Bolt, 34, admits he wasn’t always

The author of “Bad Blood” isn’t finished telling the Theranos story. Three years since the release of his bestselling book, John Carreyrou is debuting a new podcast to uncover the final chapter of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. “Bad Blood: The Final Chapter” will follow the upcoming trial of Holmes. In an interview with CNBC,

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes attends pre-trial hearing in the U.S. government’s fraud case against her on May 5, 2021. CNBC The mystery of missing Theranos patient test results that allegedly showed a high failure rate was the focus of former CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ pre-trial hearing on Wednesday. Holmes, pregnant and expected to give birth

People may not have traveled much during the past year, but that didn’t stop them from searching for ideas online. Luxury travel operator Unforgettable Travel wanted to know which travel experiences people searched the most during the past year. With the help of digital marketing agency SEO Travel, the company compiled a list of 135

For two decades, New York Yankee star C.C. Sabathia was one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball, until the six-time All-Star and 2009 World Series Champion retired in 2019. But today, Sabathia, 40, says he’s in the best mental and physical shape of his life — better than he ever was as a

Monday marks Jeff Bezos’ final day as the CEO of Amazon, the company he launched in 1994 as an online bookseller that is now an ecommerce behemoth anworth $1.7 trillion — the company that has made him the richest person in the world with a nearly $200 billion fortune. Over Bezos’ roughly 27 years as

The billionaire space race is heating up again.  Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson now plans to beat his fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos to space next week on a test spaceflight for the British billionaire’s space tourism company that will launch July 11. That’s more than a week before Bezos plans to complete his own spaceflight, along

In this article AMZN Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon said in a filing on Friday that it will grant Andy Jassy 61,000 shares of stock on Monday, when he replaces Jeff Bezos as the online retailer’s second CEO. The shares will vest over a

China cracking down on bitcoin mining and Elon Musk suspending Tesla’s acceptance of bitcoin due to the large amounts of energy it takes to mine have both contributed to the cryptocurrency losing almost half its value from its high of over $64,000 in April. It’s also making it hard for even bitcoin bulls to ignore

Getty Images Danish households are the richest in the European Union, according to a data analysis by the country’s central bank.  The average household in Denmark had 1.88 million Danish krone ($300,000) in financial assets as of the fourth quarter of 2020.  The data, released Wednesday, was extracted from the European Central Bank’s disclosure of

Oliver Rossi | Stone | Getty Images There is never a better time to start building wealth than the present. Yet how to go about it depends on your age. “The better job you do with creating your financial security, the more flexibility it provides you to make better choices in the future,” said certified

Starting July 1, tourists can visit Phuket without quarantining for the first time since March 2020. In Thailand’s much-discussed “sandbox” pilot scheme, its largest island has reopened to vaccinated travelers who are willing to abide by a laundry list of rules designed to safely restart tourism amid the pandemic.      The plan hinges on a

Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Yale announced on Wednesday that it is dropping tuition for students in the school of drama starting this August following a $150 million donation from the David Geffen Foundation. Yale said that all current and future full-time students in