“When I wanted to share with him how much we have saved for retirement and our return, he said he’d rather not know.” (Photo subjects are models.) – Getty Images/iStockphoto Dear Quentin, My husband and I are both in our 40s with two kids. He does not seem to be interested in anything financial at […]
DNY59 / Getty Images/iStockphoto You can’t turn anywhere without hearing about the impact of inflation since everything around us has become more expensive over the last few years. The inflation rate for the year ending in May was 3.3%; however, inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, reaching the highest level in over 40 years. […]
Stephen Greathouse / Shutterstock.com Entrepreneur, Shark Tank host, and investor Kevin O’Leary-also known as “Mr. Wonderful,” has been giving financial advice for several years. Explore: 30 Celebrities Who Went From Rags to Riches Also: 4 Genius Things All Wealthy People Do With Their Money O’Leary — whose net worth stands at $400 million, according to […]
(Bloomberg) — France’s leftist alliance unveiled plans to address the country’s economic challenges with a vast increase in taxation and public spending, and reaffirmed it would abolish several of Emmanuel Macron’s pro-business reforms. Most Read from Bloomberg By 2027, when the president’s mandate ends, the New Popular Front is budgeting €90 billion ($96.2 billion) annually […]
(Bloomberg) — Euro-area members must start reducing debt immediately in the face of enormous long-term fiscal risks from ageing populations, defence spending and climate change, the European Central Bank cautioned. Most Read from Bloomberg “These developments will be challenging enough in isolation, and countries will face all of them simultaneously,” it said Wednesday in an […]
A year after it closed to students, the publicly funded Erie Rise Leadership Academy Charter School has lost control of its operations during its drawn-out financial dissolution. An Erie County judge has appointed an independent receiver to wind up Erie Rise’s affairs and preserve its assets, which are to revert to the Erie School District. […]
©Dave Ramsey Being on top of all things financial and staying on track in a consistent manner can be difficult. There are many culprits — perhaps it’s a lack of time, lack of organization or a lack of a plan. In turn, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed with personal finances, which then can […]
The Lexington council wants a review of LexArts finances and its diversity efforts. Vice Mayor Dan Wu put a review of LexArts, a community umbrella arts organization, into the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council’s Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee last week. A date for that review has not been set. Wu’s motion during a May […]
Jun. 2—Most folks want to pay teachers more, but the question is always how, and no clear answer to that exists within more than 150 pages of a new Missouri law, rural education leaders have said. Gov. Mike Parson, a second-term Republican who will leave office in early January 2025, signed Senate Bill 727 into […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial showed jurors hundreds of texts, emails and phone calls over two days that show his girlfriend-turned-wife’s desperate financial situation before New Jersey businessmen she had long known came to the rescue. Prosecutors elicited the evidence through the testimony of an FBI agent for a […]
Last year, former Councilor-At-Large Peter Yacobellis upended Montclair’s political playing field with the decision to fold his bid for mayor in the May 14 election, and did so again ― barely eight weeks later ― when he announced he had resigned his post on the dais and was already on his way to a new […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to take over the criminal probe into potential financial mismanagement at the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. Michigan State Police opened an investigation last week after a law firm hired by the conservancy presented “evidence of financial wrongdoing” amid the suspension of Chief Financial Officer William A. Smith, according […]