The federal income tax is generally indexed for inflation. Most particularly, the income brackets to which the marginal tax rates apply are increased in line with the “Chained CPI-U.” While the chaine...
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She called herself the Mother Teresa of Florida small-business lending, but investigators say she was really running a $194 million Ponzi scheme
Johanna Garcia claimed her merchant cash-advance business was so helpful to small businesses in Florida that she was like the Catholic saint Mother Teresa. But to the 15,400 investors who sank $194.1 ...
These quant funds poured nearly $1 billion into Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway last quarter
Some of the biggest hedge funds have increased their stakes in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -0.26% BRK.B, -0.39% amounting to over $900 million. The likes of Bridgewater Associates and q...
‘I thought we were pretty solid’: My girlfriend and I sold our Florida home. The $200,000 profit was wired to her account. She refuses to give me my fair share.
My long-time girlfriend and I moved to Florida three years ago. After renting a home for a year in an area we liked, we bought a home together. I was not working at the time, she was, so we agreed tha...
Ernst & Young Leaders Expected to Approve Plan to Split Accounting Company
Ernst & Young’s leaders are expected this week to give the green light to splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, paving the way for the biggest shake-up in the accounting profession in ...
GameStop, Apple, Kroger, NIO, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday for Labor Day. It’s a quiet week on the earnings calendar once investors return from the long weekend, but a few major economic-data rele...
Compounding a disastrous year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency: IRS proposes controversial new question about digital assets
The Internal Revenue Service could have a potential head-scratcher of a question about your crypto investments and what’s taxable, according to a major accountants’ association. For two years, the IRS...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sells off more BYD Co. stock
Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has further pared its ownership in Chinese auto maker BYD Co. after recently disclosing that it had started selling some shares. Berkshire H...
Lucid, SoFi, and 3 Other SPAC Stocks Whose Downturns Might Be Ending
Text size Most SPAC-related stocks, including Virgin Galactic, haven’t been soaring in recent months. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Sometimes the best time to look for new investment ideas are when t...
Okta stock falls despite increased forecast, earnings beat
Okta Inc. shares fell in late trading Wednesday despite revealing an increase in the software company’s annual outlook and reporting a better quarter than Wall Street expected. Okta OKTA, +0.26%, whic...
3M’s Bankruptcy Setback Deepens Earplug Litigation Troubles
3M Co. had good reason to bet that it could use U.S. bankruptcy laws to shield itself from a mountain of personal-injury lawsuits filed over its allegedly defective military earplugs. But after a bank...
I shared expenses 50/50 with a friend on vacation. She wants me to split the cost of her credit card’s foreign-transaction fees. Is that sharp practice?
Dear Quentin, I recently took a trip to another country with a friend. We agreed to share expenses. When they presented their list of expenses, they included a foreign transaction fee charged by the c...
I set up a company with friends. It has sales of $1 million. Two partners hijacked control of the bank accounts, and want to push others out. What can we do?
I went into business with friends operating a night market. We hold big events every two weeks. We started an LLC as equal members, all with a 25% share. Friend A had the idea to do it and said they w...
How much do I need to retire? 11 big retirement questions answered
I spend a significant amount of time reading the viewpoints of people who are planning for retirement or who are already retired. My frequent reaction: What are they thinking? When I review retiremen...
This asset class is poised to rise 38% because markets overestimate risk of global recession, Goldman says
Still reeling from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s higher-for-longer remarks last week, riskier asset like equities look set for another battering, on Monday. “You can’t have the stock market collapse ov...
DocuSign Stock Surges on Earnings Beat, Boost to Billings Forecast
Text size Courtesy DocuSign Shares of DocuSign were surging Friday after the e-signature company posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates and raised its forecast for fisca...