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☆ '2023 is going to be one of the greatest years to invest': A millennial who achieved financial independence at age 30 shares his top investing advice as we head into the new year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Millennial Money founder Grant Sabatier thinks 2023 is going to be a great year to invest. A lot has changed since then, most notably the Covid-19 pandemic, which sent the stock market into freefall in March 2020. This year, however, stocks have been slipping again, recession fears continue to grow, and investors are increasingly scared of putting their money in the stock market. You can get really good deals on multi-family properties and on commercial warehouse space." His main takeaway is that, across the board, "there are going to be a lot of good deals and a lot of good value in 2023."

☆ 8 'super savers,' early retirees, and money experts share their 'recession-proof' strategies and other top money advice as we head into 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-25 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

One expert wants people to know that the stock market is just one way of many to invest. Beef up your emergency fundNew Hampshire-based real estate investor Matt "Lumberjack Landlord" and his family. For him, that means investing in real estate, which he's been doing since he was 23 years old. "If you take your money and buy real estate, you'll never make 30 times or even five times your money in one day. Get creative when it comes to financing your investmentsSeattle-based real estate investor and co-founder of Evergreen Housing Network Ludomir Wanot.

☆ Edgy Campaigns Are Out, TikTok Won’t Stop and Other 2023 Predictions for Marketers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Patrick Coffee | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +11 min

Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CMO Today CMO Today delivers the most important news of the day for media and marketing professionals. Most campaigns will focus on discounts to customers or showcase the usefulness of a company’s products, he said. Under this form of marketing, ad firms generally get paid upon completion of a desired end, such as a sale or download. In short, consumers should expect less “vacuous virtue-signaling” from marketers in the coming months, according to Mr. Proulx. But these platforms’ very struggles could result in ad bargains for marketers, said Mr. Solomon of Therabody.

☆ Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are beating the market this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Paul R. La Monica | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But Warren Buffett has no reason to be worried. Shares of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) are up about 5.5% in 2022. Berkshire has big stakes in Coca-Cola (KO) and Kraft Heinz (KHC), which are each up around 10% this year. Buffett turns 93 next August while Berkshire vice chair and long-time Buffett confidant Charlie Munger will celebrate his 99th birthday on New Year’s Day. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill with Republican Sen. Roger Marshall that would crack down on money laundering in the crypto world.

☆ In a small Russian town, a pensioner's street art denounces Ukraine conflict
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Evgenia NovozheninaSummarySummary Companies This content was produced in Russia, where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine. But on March 25, just over a month after Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, Ovchinnikov created a new work, one that would place him in serious legal jeopardy. The mural fell afoul of new laws passed by the Russian government effectively criminalising opposition to the military campaign in Ukraine. For Ovchinnikov, opposition to the conflict in Ukraine is underpinned by a family history of Soviet-era repression. "This topic of political repression and the closed nature of this topic, the wiping of historical memory, is one and the same thing as what is happening with Ukraine," Ovchinnikov said.

☆ Remembering Gary Strieker, who helped establish CNN's presence in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Tricia Escobedo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Gary Strieker had every reason to be a pessimist. Gary Strieker, who passed away in July 2022, helped establish CNN's presence in Africa. Courtesy Strieker family Born in the tiny Illinois farm town of Breese in 1944, Gary Gerard Strieker moved to San Diego, California at a young age. Courtesy Strieker family Strieker is remembered by his family and colleagues as a quiet, humble man who never lost his optimistic spirit or tireless energy for making the world a better place. Courtesy Strieker family Strieker was the network's only correspondent on the African continent for some time, covering the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s and other major moments in history, including the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

☆ Passed on investing in FTX, twice, says former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"We looked at investment twice, and passed both times," Mnuchin said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit in New York on Tuesday. I did not expect it would unwind nearly as quickly, and if indeed customer funds were misused those are very serious issues," he said. "We were a bit surprised by the overall level of valuation," Mnuchin said. "You had people doing an investment a day in tech," Mnuchin said at the CNBC event. Though he added that the allegations of misuse of customer funds in the FTX case do point to a foundational principal in financial regulation.

WASHINGTON — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday easily defeated conservative Rep. Andy Biggs to win the GOP nomination for speaker of the House. The Arizona Republican and former leader of the far-right, Trump-aligned House Freedom Caucus did not announce that he would challenge McCarthy until Monday night. "Minority Leader McCarthy does not have the votes needed to become the next Speaker of the House and his speakership should not be a foregone conclusion," Biggs said in a statement. Former President Donald Trump, who is expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid later Tuesday, has endorsed his longtime ally, McCarthy, for speaker. So has Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., a Freedom Caucus member who is enormously popular among grassroots conservatives.

SINGAPORE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Singapore-based crypto exchange Crypto.com's chief executive said the firm will prove all naysayers wrong on the platform being in trouble, and that it has a robust balance sheet and took no risks. Chief executive Kris Marszalek took questions in a livestreaming YouTube address, and also said the platform always maintained reserves to match every coin customers held on its platform. Marszalek had tweeted to say the ether was recovered and returned to the exchange, but that failed to calm a jittery market. Crypto.com is among the top 10 exchanges by turnover globally, but smaller than FTX and market leader Binance. Marszalek said Crypto.com had 70 million individual customers worldwide, and had made revenues of a billion dollars in 2021 as well as in 2022.

☆ Ukrainians hold out in east, prepare battle for Kherson
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The most severe fighting in eastern Ukraine was taking place near Avdiivka, outside Donetsk, and Bakhmut, Zelenskyy said. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize Bakhmut, which sits on a main road leading to the Ukrainian-held cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Efrem Lukatsky / APThe looming battle for Kherson city at the mouth of the Dnipro River will determine whether Ukraine can loosen Russia’s grip on the south. Radio intercepts indicated freshly mobilized recruits had been sent to the front and Russian forces were firmly dug in. Ukrainian forces advanced along the Dnipro in a dramatic push in the south at the start of this month, but progress appears to have slowed.

☆ Ukrainian troops holding out against crazy Russian tactics -Zelenskiy
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 26 (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops are holding out against repeated attacks near two key towns in the eastern Donbas region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, describing the Russian tactics as crazy. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize Bakhmut, which sits on a main road leading to the Ukrainian-held cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Ukrainian troops say they expect a tough fight there. Separately, Russian-installed authorities in Shakhtarsk, just to the east of Donetsk, said Ukrainian shelling had set ablaze fuel tanks at the town's railway station. Ukrainian forces, some equipped with artillery supplied by the United States and other allies, have methodically shelled Russian fuel and ammunition bases and railway lines.

☆ 'The Piano Lesson' is back on Broadway, starring Samuel L. Jackson
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Alicia Powell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - American playwright August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" is returning to Broadway, with Samuel L. Jackson starring and his wife directing. LaTanya Richardson Jackson, in her Broadway directing debut, has a more literal take on the story than her predecessors. Samuel Jackson, playing Doaker Charles, returns to the work after playing the character's nephew Boy Willie in its first production at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1987. "By the time the play traveled and came back to Broadway and I was an understudy, I was pretty much devastated that I wasn't going to make my Broadway debut," the actor said. John David Washington, making his Broadway debut as Boy Willie, is dealing with many different feelings, he said.

☆ Why Joe Biden thinks he's never too old to be your president
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +28 min

As the oldest sitting president, he's raising concerns about how long he can continue governing. Republicans — including Trump — have gleefully seized on Biden's verbal misadventures, such as when he called his vice president "President Harris." President Joe Biden drives the Ford's new all-electric F-150 Lightning in Dearborn, Michigan. Ruggerio described the idea that Joe Biden is diminished or can't remember things as "bull crap." Cox said that while he thinks Biden is "still Joe" and still capable, he worries that Biden's age is a problem.

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