I am a California resident. My husband and I own a 1,800-square-foot home that we bought in 2019 for $1.5 million. We have between 40% and 50% equity in the property due to a large down payment. We li...
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‘I don’t know if it’s worth dealing with tenants’: Should I convert my home into a rental, or sell it?
I have enough money to put down on a second home — I need a slightly bigger place and another bedroom. I currently live in Portland, Ore., but I am planning to move outside of Portland. However, I’m c...
Cost Of Living In The UK Surges
With the cost of living soaring, many retailers and consumers are grappling with the difficulties of … [+] price rises getty A further interest rate rise by The Bank of England this week, confir...
Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.
Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...
These end-of-life planning forms will save your family a lot of heartache, the trouble with Alaska’s oil fund and more retirement news
From MarketWatch: Opinion: Big money trouble with Alaska’s $80 billion oil fund: A major political row has broken out at Alaska’s Permanent Fund, the state’s giant $82 billion oil fund, where the firi...
Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?
Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...
‘We do not want him to receive anything from our estate’: How do we ensure our son-in-law does not get his hands on our money?
Dear Quentin, My wife and I are in our 70’s and have one daughter as the sole beneficiary to our estate. We live in Ohio. She is separated from her husband, and it doesn’t appear that they will be get...
Opinion: These 2 numbers sum up why the housing market won’t get back to normal for a long time
Last week I got a letter in the mail. Like you, I’m surprised this still exists as a practice but desperate times call for desperate measures: Courtesy Ben Carlson Now I would like to think our house ...
The ‘best job in America’ pays $145,000, has 14,000 job openings — and offers a generous work-life balance
A six-figure salary and the option to work from home? It sounds too good to be true. Job openings are rising, while workers continue to quit. The number of vacant jobs hit 10.9 million in December, up...
More than one-third of Americans say they’ve never had a retirement account
Never had a retirement account? You’re not alone – 36% of American workers said they’ve never had a retirement account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA, a new Bankrate survey found. Generation Z and ...
‘The company is a household name’: My husband’s tech firm gave him stock. It’s now 40% of our net worth. Should we diversify or hold?
Dear Quentin, My husband and I disagree as to whether he should diversify his tech stock. He was granted this stock during his five years employed with a tech company. It wasn’t worth much at the time...
The Algorithmic Life Is Not Worth Living
It’s Privacy Week here at CoinDesk, and we’ve been diving into a variety of technological and legal angles on the consequences of digital surveillance. Anxiety about the rise of omnipresent snooping c...
Opinion: Retirees in the U.S. do not live on ‘fixed incomes’
As inflation has gained traction in the last year, commentators constantly remark about how it is particularly hard on retirees who live on a “fixed income.” Please stop. Retirees do not live on fixe...
Lizzo, H.E.R., Big Sean, Ari Lennox, And More To Perform For “iHeartRadio Living Black! Empowered By At&T” Special Event And National On-Air Celebration Of Black Culture And Impact In America
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 23: Lizzo performs onstage at the 2019 BET Awards on June 23, 2019 in … [+] Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Getty Images iHeart...
20 Years On From ‘Minority Report’, Are We Living In Spielberg’s Vision Of A Retail Future?
Tom Cruise runs in a scene from the film ‘Minority Report’, 2002. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty … [+] Images) Getty Images In preparing for the sci-fi movie “Minority Report” (rel...
Opinion: Peloton’s stock price is disconnected from reality, and it will fall below $15 before hitting bottom
We have been recommending that investors short Peloton since October 2020. Even after falling 76% in 2021 and continuing to drop this month, Peloton’s valuation remains disconnected from the reality o...
We’re in our 60s, my husband plans to work until he ‘drops dead’ and our medical bills are overwhelming – how can we retire like this?
My husband works for the county making approximately $55,000 a year but before that was in retail with earnings of only about $36,000. In 1996, our daughter was diagnosed with a life threatening incur...
Earn Crypto With HealthBlocks By Living Healthy [4000+ Active Participants]
The impact technology has had on healthcare in recent years cannot be overstated. Virtual doctor’s appointments have become the norm, bracelets on our wrists remind us to work out, rings monitor the q...
Two Major Ways Web 3.0 Will Reinvent How Content Creators Make A Living
Co-founder and CEO at Snipfeed. getty Earlier this year, the monetization platform OnlyFans decided to ban certain types of NSFW content, putting many of their creators, whose livelihood depended on t...
Health Blocks aims to disrupt the global healthcare system with healthy living DApp
Technology is advancing at lightning speed. Many —60%, according to a study— agree it is moving at a pace that makes it very difficult to keep up with, while others say it’s progressed so fast governm...
Opinion: These 5 tech stocks — including small caps you probably don’t know — can lead the sector’s comeback
Amid all the big swings in the S&P 500 and other benchmarks, it’s natural for many investors to be worried. But as the adage attributed to Warren Buffett goes, sometimes it pays the most to be gre...