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☆ Homebuyers looking for a bargain should consider these 20 cities where houses are actually cheaper than condos
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

However, there are 20 US cities where homes are less expensive than condominiums. Here are the markets where homes are relatively cheap compared to condos. Homebuyers seem to be overlooking this unusual discrepancy — those 20 cities are either seeing declines or very slight increases in population size, according to census data cited in the report. Besides cost savings, single-family homes in those 20 cities offer more size and distance from neighbors than condos, the report noted. 20 cities where homes are cheaper than condosBelow are the 20 cities where houses sell for less than condominiums, along with the median prices for homes and condos, as well as the price and percent differences between the two.

☆ The 20 most diverse places to live in America are also some of the most expensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Yoonji Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Every year, Niche releases a list of the best places to live in America. The most diverse places to live in the US are also among the most expensive, often with higher costs of living. All of the top 20 most diverse places to live in America, which include neighborhoods, suburbs, and cities, are located along the coasts. By comparison, the national median household income is $69,021, and the national median rent is $1,163. Keep reading to discover the 20 most diverse places to live in America, along with their relative costs of living.

☆ The Saint Peter’s Cinderellas Who Moved On—and Won’t Be Back in the NCAA Tournament
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Laine Higgins | Jim Chairusmi | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In two short weeks last March, Saint Peter’s went from an unknown commuter school in Jersey City, N.J., to one of the greatest Cinderella stories in NCAA tournament history. 15 seed Peacocks kicked off the tournament with a massive upset over No. 2 seed Kentucky and then toppled No. 3 Purdue on a historic romp that ended a game short of the Final Four. More than half of the players, including all five starters, took advantage of looser transfer rules in college sports to bolt for other programs that seemed to offer better opportunities.

☆ Security Gets Blended With Corporate Networks in New Cloud Platforms
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

As everything moves to the cloud, a new generation of cybersecurity platforms has emerged, combining corporate networks with security tools such as malware protection into a single system that tech leaders can manage centrally. Older technology can be upgraded to lay the groundwork for implementing a new platform, Mr. Franch said, but it needs to happen without disrupting the existing corporate network. PREVIEWAt Carriage Services, Mr. Franch wants to undertake a network modernization similar to one he oversaw as chief technology officer of commercial real-estate services company Cushman & Wakefield. Modernization tends to reduce complexity and increase visibility of what’s on the network, which can benefit security, according to Mr. Franch. Goya Foods Inc. CIO Suvajit Basu said the Jersey City, N.J.-based company uses cybersecurity services from about seven vendors and a total of about 12 cybersecurity tools, many purchased and implemented over time.

☆ Mass Shootings in the U.S.: A Symptom of Despair - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Jillian Peterson | James Densley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +23 min

Seven killed and 46 injured in Highland Park, Ill., on July 4, 2022He suffered from severe back pain. Eight killed and seven injured in Indianapolis on April 15, 2021He was known for being paranoid with a short temper. Five killed and seven injured in Aurora, Ill., on Feb. 15, 2019He had expressed violent thoughts. Nine killed and seven injured in Red Lake, Minn., on March 21, 2005He had been noticeably depressed and angry at church. Seven killed and seven injured in Fort Worth on Sept. 15, 1999He killed his daughter’s cat because he was upset.

☆ The Wordle of real estate is here. Can you guess a home's asking price?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Users get six tries to guess the asking price of a house, which Weitzbuch selects by hand daily. Your real estate prowess can finally be put to the test with Housle, a new daily game created by Los Angeles reality-TV producer Doug Weitzbuch. Modeled after Wordle, the massively popular game where users guess a five-letter word of the day, Housle tests you on the asking prices of homes for sale. Echoing Wordle's six guesses, Housle gives users six tries to predict the listing price of a house from any part of the country. Weitzbuch is also an avid Wordle player, sharing his daily score with four friends in a group chat dubbed "Wordle Nerdles."

☆ All the U.S. states, cities and counties where companies have to share salary ranges with workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Current employees are entitled to the salary range of their position, upon request. An employer must provide the employee the salary range when they are hired, if they change to a new position, or if the employee requests it. Who it applies to: Maryland employersNevadaThe law: Employers must provide the salary range to applicants after an initial interview automatically, even if the applicant hasn't asked for it. Plus, they have to provide a salary range for a current employee's position at their request. Who it applies to: Rhode Island employersToledo, OhioThe law: Employers must share the salary range for a position after they extend an offer and if the applicant asks for it .

☆ ‘Christmas Mubarak’: For many South Asian Americans, the holiday is a cultural celebration
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Zoya Wazir | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

For the Hazrati family, Christmas Day typically includes a lit-up tree, gifts and a dal lunch. While 69% of Americans identify as Christian, as much as 93% of Americans reported celebrating Christmas as of 2019. In an America that celebrates both a religious and secular Christmas, South Asian Americans from other faiths are finding ways to make the holiday their own. Despite Iqbal’s festive decor, her family still abstained from celebrating on Christmas Day because it wasn’t part of their religious traditions. But for some South Asian Americans, celebrating a holiday that isn’t part of their religious identity can feel disingenuous, especially when their own faith is filled with rich celebrations.

☆ The 5 U.S. cities expected to have the highest rent prices in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

There are five cities where rent prices are predicted to cost the most next year, based on existing rent prices and projected demand, per an analysis provided by Zumper. Here's a look at the cities where rent is expected to be most expensive for a one-bedroom home, as well as price trends in each. New York CityMedian rent in December 2022 : $3,738: $3,738 Median rent in December 2020 : $2,399: $2,399 Percent change: 56% Prior to the pandemic, median rent for a one-bedroom home in the Big Apple was closer to $3,000. "We've seen record numbers of applications for apartments" in areas around New York City, Chen says. Luckily, rent prices have not climbed back up to the city's pre-pandemic peak of $3,700 in 2019.

☆ Nayib Bukele war on gangs: El Salvador has arrested 2% of its adult population. Other countries are taking note
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Tara John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Eight months since El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a war on gangs, an estimated 2% of the country’s adult population – or roughly 100,000 people – are now behind bars. In 2015, El Salvador surpassed Honduras as the most violent country in the world, with a murder rate of more than 100 per 100,000 inhabitants. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks to around 14,000 soldiers in El Salvador. Alleged gang members at a maximum security prison in Izalco, El Salvador, on September 4, 2020. “It is not that they are interested in El Salvador (they never were), their fear is that we will succeed, because other governments will want to imitate it.

☆ BlockFi Says It Is Different From FTX, Affirms Efforts to Return Customer Funds
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Jonathan Randles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BlockFi Inc. told a U.S. bankruptcy court on Tuesday it was blindsided by cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s rapid demise and would work to repay creditors and allow customers access to their digital wallets as soon as possible. Jersey City, N.J.-based BlockFi, which secured a rescue loan from FTX in June to shore up its liquidity, reviewed unaudited FTX financial reports as part of due diligence it performed at the time of the transactions, said Joshua Sussberg, a lawyer for BlockFi, during its debut hearing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Trenton, N.J. BlockFi filed for chapter 11 on Monday after the loan fell apart in the wake of FTX’s collapse earlier in November.

☆ Is this the last Christmas for Sears?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Easterling was at the Sears in her hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey, one of only 15 full-line Sears stores still open. The two started a catalog business selling watches and jewelry in 1888, incorporating under the Sears Roebuck name in 1893. The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods. File photo/AP People shop inside a Sears store in Morton Grove, Illinois, in 1961. AP Soldiers guard a Sears store in Baltimore after riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

New Jersey-based BlockFi, founded by fintech executive-turned-crypto entrepreneur Zac Prince, said in a bankruptcy filing that its substantial exposure to FTX created a liquidity crisis. BlockFi listed its assets and liabilities as being between $1 billion and $10 billion. Renzi said that BlockFi had sold a portion of its crypto assets earlier in November to fund its bankruptcy. In a court filing on Monday, BlockFi listed FTX as its second-largest creditor, with $275 million owed on a loan extended earlier this year. In its bankruptcy filing, BlockFi said it had hired Kirkland & Ellis and Haynes & Boone as bankruptcy counsel.

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New Jersey-based BlockFi, founded by Zac Prince, said in a bankruptcy filing that its substantial exposure to FTX created a liquidity crisis. In a court filing on Monday, BlockFi listed FTX as its second-largest creditor, with $275 million owed on a loan extended earlier this year. Crypto lenders, the de facto banks of the crypto world, boomed during the pandemic, attracting retail customers with double-digit rates in return for their cryptocurrency deposits. Crypto lenders are not required to hold capital or liquidity buffers like traditional lenders and some found themselves exposed when a shortage of collateral forced them - and their customers - to shoulder large losses. In its bankruptcy filing, BlockFi said it had hired Kirkland & Ellis and Haynes & Boone as bankruptcy counsel and Berkeley Research Group as a financial adviser.

Distressed crypto firm BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey following the implosion of putative acquirer FTX. Like FTX, BlockFi also has a Bahamian subsidiary. BlockFi's bankruptcy filing shows that the company's largest disclosed client has a balance of nearly $28 million. The company started talking with restructuring professionals in the days after FTX's bankruptcy filing, according to people familiar with the matter. Approximately 130 additional affiliated companies are part of the proceedings, including Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried's crypto trading firm, and FTX.us, the company's U.S. subsidiary.

☆ Here's what Black Friday sales tell us about the retail sector — and our top pick
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The holiday shopping season got off to a solid start over the weekend, as Black Friday's online sales beat expectations and started to build some much-needed momentum for the retail sector. According to Adobe's online sales tracker, consumers shelled out a record $9.12 billion shopping online on Black Friday. In another early look report, traffic on Black Friday at brick-and-mortar retail stores rose about 3% over 2021, according to retail tracker Sensormatic, which attributed the rise to increased promotional activity and "favorable in-store experiences." The analysts point out that this year's holiday shopping calendar is one day longer than in 2021. Bottom line With holiday shopping underway, we continue to like off-price retailers in these trying times.

☆ Jersey City Tenants Confront Landlord Over 40% Rent Hikes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Kate King | Photographs Elianel Clinton For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dina Bologa was shocked when she learned in July that the rent for her Jersey City, N.J., two-bedroom apartment would go up 40% to more than $6,000 a month if she renewed her lease. She thought about moving and tried negotiating with her landlord. Then Ms. Bologa’s neighbors, who were facing similar rent increases, started organizing.

☆ Goldman Sachs just dropped the names of its biggest partner class since David Solomon took over as CEO. See the full list here.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | Dakin Campbell | Alex Morrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

David Solomon had been shrinking the size of Goldman's partner ranks to make it more exclusive. On Wednesday, the firm named 80 new partners, its largest class since Solomon became CEO in 2018. Goldman Sachs promoted 80 people to partner status on Wednesday, marking the largest class since David Solomon took over as CEO in 2018. Goldman's partner class has been steadily shrinking since David Solomon took over as CEO in 2018. Last year, Goldman gave its roughly 400 partners special one-time payments that added millions of dollars to their already generous year-end bonuses.

☆ U.S. job growth seen smallest in nearly two years in October, unemployment rate up
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lucia Mutikani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

"The labor market is basically OK, but it does seem to be slowing," said Guy Berger, principal economist at LinkedInin San Francisco. "The Fed is going to try to thread the needle where they slow down the labor market enough to put downward pressure on wages and inflation, without causing a recession." Still, the labor market remains tight, with 1.9 job openings per unemployed person at the end of September. Stripping out any distortions from the weather and calendar quirk, wage growth is cooling. "We believe we've seen wage growth peak," said Michelle Green, principal economist at Prevedere in Columbus, Ohio.

☆ FBI warns of 'broad' threat to synagogues in New Jersey
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The FBI said on Thursday it had received credible information about a "broad" threat to synagogues in New Jersey. The FBI's Newark office released a statement urging synagogues to "take all security precautions to protect your community and facility." More specific details weren't released, and a message was left with the FBI. In Jersey City, Mayor Steven Fulop said police would be posted at the city's seven synagogues and foot patrols would be added in the broader Jewish community. In 2019, two assailants motivated by anti-Jewish hate killed three people in a kosher market in Jersey City, along with a police officer.

☆ JPMorgan's new affordable advice service lets investors call advisors as often as they want. Here's how it fits into exec Kristin Lemkau's plan to turbocharge the wealth business.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

JPMorgan's new program lets clients get financial advice via phone or video as often as they want. The Personal Advisors unit is part of US wealth head Kristin Lemkau's digital ambitions. This new Personal Advisors channel is part of US wealth management CEO Kristin Lemkau's plan to expand digital offerings. It launches with more than 200 licensed financial advisors in seven metropolitan hubs, including Atlanta, Chicago, Jersey City, and San Antonio. The new remote advisory business was the "last white space" for JPMorgan, said Lahovitsky, head of Personal Advisors.

☆ This 35-year-old left the U.S. for Croatia: 'I live on $47 a day — here’s a look at how I spend my time'
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-21 | by ( Steve Tsentserensky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

The average rent for a one-bedroom in Jersey City, for example, is $2,779 (not including utilities), according to rental listing website RentCafe. I'm renting directly from the owner for $540 (including utilities) per month. Marmontova Ulica, a busy street in Split filled with several shops and restaurants. Photo: Steve TsentserenskyI spend an average of $47 a day. Photo: Steve TsentserenskyThe pace of life in Croatia is dramatically different — and much more my speed — than in New Jersey.

☆ Made Men: A photo tour of the most notorious sites of New York Mafia history – and what they look like now
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-23 | by ( Andrew Lichtenstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderManhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, on the western edge of Midtown, got its name from its crowded tenements. On March, 13, 2019, Gambino family crime boss Frankie Cali was shot dead in the driveway outside his Todt Hill home. Andrew Lichtenstein for InsiderThe service road to the Belt Parkway runs through the northern edge of the Brighton Beach neighborhood. John Gotti's Family Home, Howard Beach, QueensThe home where John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family. It's here that John Gotti, the leader of the Gambino crime family and thus the 'Godfather' of the American mafia, lived and raised his family.

☆ (VIDEO) O adolescentă de 14 ani a intrat într-un restaurant şi-a lăsat bebeluşul nou-născut în braţele unei cliente apoi a fugit
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-23 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

O adolescentă de 14 ani şi-a lăsat bebeluşul nou-născut în braţele unei cliente, într-un restaurant, înainte de a fugi de la faţa locului. Bebeluşul încă avea cordonul ombilical ataşat atunci când mama ei a lăsat-o în braţele unei cliente, în restaurantul El Patron din New Jersey, apoi a fugit. „După ce i-a fost pusă masca de oxigen am auzit cel mai frumos plânset şi bebeluşul a început să se mişte. A deschis ușor ochii și apoi i-a închis, dar cel mai dulce lucru a fost atunci când i s-a făcut foame și a încercat să sugă masca de oxigen. A fost apoi transportată la Centrul Medical Jersey City cu o ambulanță pentru a primi îngrijiri, mai ales că avea cordonul ombilical încă ataşat, potrivit Observatornews.

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