Surprise, Surprise: Jersey Shore Town Beats Florida Locales as Zillow Retirement Hotspot
By Claire Ballentine Warm weather, no state income taxes, palm-fringed beaches and condos have made Florida the quintessential U.S. retirement destination. But a little shore […]
Rich Americans Find Tax Gap Hard to Ignore With SALT Debate Raging
By Ben Steverman For America’s wealthy, the tax gap between states is getting more difficult to ignore. More than a dozen states, most run by Republicans, […]
Same Doll But Walmart Sells Black Version At High Price Than White Version. Shoppers Find More Examples
Retail giant Walmart is apologizing after a customer noticed that a Black baby doll set cost almost $15 more than the white doll set. A […]
Hip-Hop Veteran Ja Rule Gifting His Children NFTs for Christmas to Set Them Up to Make Future Investments
Ja Rule is proudly riding the crypto wave this Christmas. While most are exchanging the season’s most coveted items and luxury trinkets, Ja Rule is instead […]
Crypto Funds Explode in Boom Year Marked by First U.S. Bitcoin ETF
By Katherine Greifeld Even beyond the launch of the first U.S. Bitcoin futures ETF, cryptocurrency funds notched some notable global milestones in 2021. The number of […]
Being Tuned Into Their Customers’ Needs, Up-and-Coming Brooklyn Tea Shop Did a Successful Pandemic Pivot
In 2019 a new tea room and tea shop in Brooklyn, New York, created a local buzz for its imported teas. Having been opened in […]
SEC Plan Forces Firms To Reveal Swap Positions
By Ben Bain U.S. regulators are seeking to restrict hedge funds and family offices from using complex derivatives to secretly build huge stakes in public […]
Tax Bills for Rich Americans in Doubt With Biden’s Plan Adrift
By Laura Davison A tax year that just months ago was set to end with a frantic scramble by wealthy Americans to complete moves averting […]
Here Are Cities With High Black Homeownership Rates, Defying National Trends
In some regions of the U.S. with large non-white populations, Black homeownership is higher, but that isn’t always the case. For example, New York City […]
Homebuyer ‘Love Letters’ Could Result in Bias, Real Estate Firm Wants to Block New Oregon Law Banning Them
In a competitive housing market, homebuyers will stop at nothing to persuade an owner to accept their bid. While some potential buyers will offer additional […]
Jackson State QB Shedeur Sanders Signs NIL Deal With Tom Brady And Brady Brand
Tampa Bay Buccaneers legendary QB Tom Brady has conquered every feat on the gridiron, as evidenced by the seven Super Bowl victories and numerous NFL passing records […]
Meme Stock Traders Thrilled by DOJ’s Criminal Probe of Hedge Funds
By Claire Ballentine and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou The horde of rambunctious individual investors across Reddit, Stocktwits and Twitter are thrilled with a sense of vindication. They’ve […]
Pfizer, GameStop and Roku: Investments in the Spotlight
By Donald Moore and Heesu Lee Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that a third shot of its Covid vaccine may be needed to help boost resistance against the […]
Stocks Drop in Heavy Trading, Bond Curve Flattens: Markets Wrap
By Rita Nazareth Volatility gripped financial markets, with investors bracing for a rebalancing of the S&P 500 and the expiration of equity derivatives. Stock moves […]
Finurah Funding Friday: Check Out Business Grants From Amazon, Comcast and Others
Building sustainable businesses, especially during a pandemic, is never easy. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, 41 percent of Black businesses shuttered their […]
‘Own Your Brand’: Hip-Hop Icon MC Lyte Reclaims the Rights to Her Stage Name 30 Years After She Lost Them to Record Label
MC Lyte, born Lana Moorer, officially owns the rights to her stage name, and it only took her more than 30 years of patience to do […]
‘Will Not Adequately Address Compounded Generations of Racism’: West Hollywood City Council Approves Measure to Study History of Redlining, Possible Reparations
In 1939 the California city now known as West Hollywood was a predominately working-class area populated by Jewish and Black residents. The Home Owners Loan […]
‘I’m Here to Give Them Something Fresh, Eclectic and Different’: How Margie Toney’s Style Eyes Optical Offers High-End and Chic Eyewear to Her Brooklyn Community
When entrepreneur Margie Toney first opened her eyewear boutique in Brooklyn, New York, three years ago, it was with the goal of bringing high-quality eyewear […]