Wealth

Trust is always important, especially in the workplace. But for Warren Buffett and the executives who run Berkshire Hathaway’s 62 subsidiaries, trust is more than just important. It’s essential. That’s likely why Buffett seems confident that his latest acquisition, his largest in nearly seven years, will be successful. On Monday, the billionaire investor’s holding company,…

Eleven years after co-founding Apple, Steve Jobs was fired. So, in 1985, Jobs used his ambition – and $12 million of his own money – to launch NeXT, a company Jobs started in order to build computers for colleges and researchers. And, this week, a piece of history from that period in the tech icon’s…

Most people know Facebook’s dorm-room origin story. But according to Mark Zuckerberg, you might have learned the wrong lesson from it. On a recent episode of the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” hosted by MIT computer scientist Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg said his initial ability to launch Facebook back in 2004 wasn’t because he dropped out of college…

After two years of living with Covid-19, travelers are making big vacation plans again. But not every type of trip may be available this year, travel professionals said. That’s because many people postponed more ambitious vacations during the pandemic — in some cases two years in a row — leaving little room for new bookings…

A man sits on the Wall street bull near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 24, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images The roaring stock market and crypto gains created more than a million new millionaires in the U.S. last year, according to a new report. The number of…

For Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, investing can be a real headache. “As a rule, I don’t invest [often], because then you’ve got to be watching it every day, and I like my head to be really peaceful and low stress,” Wozniak tells CNBC Make It. That’s why he says he tries to avoid buying stocks…

Sunny Balwani, former president and chief operating officer of Theranos Inc., leaves federal court in San Jose, California, Oct. 2, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images He was the man behind the lab curtain at blood-testing start-up Theranos. Now he takes center stage in his own criminal fraud case. Opening arguments in the…

Valeriy_G | iStock | Getty Images Flush with cash, more than two dozen states enacted tax breaks in 2021, including earned income tax credits, or EITCs, a boon for low to moderate earners.  Generally, working families with children earning roughly $42,000 to $57,000 qualify for state EITCs, depending on marital status and family size, according…

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch poses on the red carpet upon arrival at the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, on March 13, 2022. Tolga Akmen | Afp | Getty Images Brits will be given £350 ($457) a month to house Ukrainians fleeing the war, according to a new government…

Paying your credit card balance on time is crucial to maintaining a good credit score and dodging late fees. However, mistakes happen: 45% of Americans said they missed a credit card payment because they simply forgot, according to a WalletHub survey. That mistake be costly. Federal regulations currently cap the maximum late fee on a first…

Signage outside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters in Washington, D.C. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A group of bipartisan lawmakers is pressing the IRS for answers on lingering issues amid a backlog of millions of unprocessed returns. Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., members of the Senate Finance Committee overseeing the…

Chuyn | Istock | Getty Images The business of selling citizenships to the world’s wealthy has grown into a $20 billion industry. Now “golden passport” programs are under fire as a result of the crackdown on Russian oligarchs. Russian billionaires have been among the world’s largest buyers of multiple citizenships, using alternate passports to help…