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For Love & Money is a column from Business Insider answering your relationship and money questions. This week, a reader's dad died and left all his money to one sibling. Dear For Love & Money,My dad died almost two years ago and left my younger brother and me here. I know my dad caused this situation, but my brother doesn't have to handle it like that. Maybe your dad felt bad for your brother because he always secretly felt you had more promise.

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☆ Here's why Rhaenyra Targaryen may become queen in 'House of the Dragon' season three
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewWarning: Major spoilers ahead for "House of the Dragon" season two finale and the book "Fire and Blood." Rhaenyra Targaryen and her biggest rival, Alicent Hightower, form a pact to take over the kingdom in the "House of the Dragon" season two finale. AdvertisementRhaenyra takes over King's Landing without Alicent's help in 'Fire and Blood'Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) uses her dragons to take over King's Landing. He and Rhaenyra took over King's Landing with their dragons, their team of dragonriders, and a fleet led by Corly Verlaryon. AdvertisementRhaenyra struggled to raise enough money to look after King's Landing because most of the gold had been sent away.

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☆ 'House of the Dragon' director says she 'couldn't sleep' thinking about how to film Daemon's game-changing finale vision
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

By the season finale, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) knows that she has no allies left in King's Landing. "Every time I'm in a scene like Rhaenyra and Alicent, I'm thinking about the war zone," she said. Matt Smith and Emma D'Arcy as Daemon and Rhaenyra Targaryen in the season two finale of "House of the Dragon." AdvertisementDaenerys Targaryen briefly appears in Daemon's vision in the season two finale of "House of the Dragon." What I love about the way Sara particularly wrote the season finale is that she grounded it in relationships.

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☆ Helaena Targaryen has a target on her back by the end of 'House of the Dragon' season 2. Here's what will happen to her if the show follows the book.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewWarning: Major spoilers ahead for "House of the Dragon" season two and the book "Fire and Blood." Theo Whitman/HBOIn the book, Helaena has three children instead of two. Like in the TV show, Jaehaerys is killed early in the war after Daemon sends assassins into King's Landing. AdvertisementIn the book, Rhaenyra takes over King's Landing, taking Helaena and her mother as prisoners. Rhaenyra could also betrayAlicent after conquering King's Landing and not allowing Alicent or Helaena to leave the city.

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☆ Miss USA Pageant Is Being Destroyed by Its Scandals
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

AdvertisementAccording to the longtime Miss USA official, the significant shift was ushered in by the former Miss Universe Organization president Paula Shugart, who produced the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe pageants from 2001 until 2020. Benjamin Askinas/The Miss Universe OrganizationCheslie Kryst, who won Miss USA in 2019, defended the #MeToo movement during her interview round. It was a remarkably different experience from those of past titleholders like Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady Colagiovanni and Miss Teen USA 2017 Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff. AdvertisementThough they were "brand ambassadors" of the organization, Voigt and Srivastava couldn't even post on the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA social-media pages. Advertisement"I don't know that Miss USA is relevant right now," the longtime Miss USA official said.

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For Love & Money is a weekly Business Insider column answering relationship and money questions. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. AdvertisementDear For Love & Money,My mother-in-law has been living with us for the last year. Remember, even if your mother-in-law leaves your house, she will still be in your lives, hip-checking you out of every photo opportunity. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form .

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☆ Here's what will happen to Alicent Hightower on 'House of the Dragon,' if it follows her fate in the book
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWarning: Major spoilers ahead for "House of the Dragon" season two, episode six. Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and her daughter, Helaena Targaryen (Phia Saban) get caught up in a revolt in the sixth episode of "House of the Dragon" season two. Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower and Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen in "House of the Dragon." Three years after Rhaenyra's death, Alicent is placed under house arrest because she fails to persuade her granddaughter to kill Rhaenyra's last surviving son. AdvertisementAlicent's death is a lonely one, but at least she isn't killed in battle, or eaten by a dragon.

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For Love & Money is a weekly Business Insider column answering relationship and money questions. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. If your siblings don't already recognize how lucky they are to have you, I assure you they will someday. Another way you can help your siblings when you're gone is to prepare them for it now. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form .

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☆ A trainer-heiress power couple created the fitness juggernaut Pvolve. Then came a divorce, an arrest, and Jennifer Aniston.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +43 min

Around the dinner table in the early 2000s, David Katzman would quiz his kids about their dream startups. ModelFit employees told BI that Gelband used the Pelvicore Pro only with the permission of its creator, the physical therapist Christina Christie. Once, in October 2018, David Katzman met with Facebook's ad team to discuss SDC's before-and-after advertisements, which violated the tech company's policies. SDC employees worked on Pvolve marketing campaigns, and Pvolve employees took trips on David Katzman's jet. "He didn't come from anything, and he spent years and years building up the business," the person close to Pasterino told BI.

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I always said I would give my land to my adult children when we married, and I moved in with him. He is upset that I am giving our marital assets to my adult children, and he says that is not fair to him or his three adult children. If this solution doesn't work for your husband, it's his job to find an alternative, not yours. AdvertisementAnother compromise might be giving your adult children a larger share of your personal assets and one another's children smaller bequests. And you can't have the conversation until your husband is willing to have it.

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☆ Here's the deflation breakdown for June 2024 — in one chart
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Physical goods have accounted for much of the deflation over the past year, according to economists. Outside of supply-demand dynamics, the U.S. dollar's strength relative to other global currencies has also helped rein in prices for goods, economists said. However, a shift toward higher tariffs and less free trade could serve to push up goods prices "quite significantly," she added. Why there's been deflation for food, travel, electronicsPrices have also declined for items including food, travel and electronics. Travelers have seen deflation for airline fares (prices are down 5.1% annually) amid factors like an increased volume of available seats.

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☆ I write an advice column about money and relationships. When I get questions about weddings, I always remind readers that they're about two people.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Olivia Christensen | Avril Ayers | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In my advice column, For Love & Money, I get a lot of big questions about paying for weddings. The key to all my advice is that a wedding is about exactly two people — and that's OK.Do you have your own questions about money and relationships? It seemed that what hurt the aunt most was that this niece later married the guy anyway, without a big wedding, inviting the aunt, or repaying her. I encouraged the bride to lean into the universally acknowledged truth that a person's wedding day is their own. Looking for advice on how your savings, debt, or another financial challenge is affecting your relationships?

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☆ Opinion: This film is chilling reminder of how ‘not sorry’ Louis C.K. is
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Opinion Sara Stewart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —“Sorry/Not Sorry,” in theaters Friday, revisits the 2017 comedy-world firestorm involving five women’s accounts of sexual misconduct by comedian Louis C.K. only to be shut down; and Abby Schachner, a comic and writer who went public with her account of C.K. Then it was followed by C.K.’s Grammy-winning 2022 album “Sincerely Louis C.K.,” in which he joked about the behavior as a sexual hangup rather than abuse. “There are dozens of Russell Brands,” was the headline of one Guardian piece on female comics. I want a world where female comics have a workplace where they feel they’ll be supported — and, more importantly, employed — if they speak out about abuse.

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☆ Miss AI crowns Moroccan lifestyle influencer Kenza Layli
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —After judges of the world’s first AI beauty pageant unveiled 10 finalists last month, the inaugural Miss AI has now been crowned. Meet Kenza Layli, a Moroccan lifestyle influencer who hopes to bring “diversity and inclusivity” to the AI creator landscape. “Winning Miss AI motivates me even more to continue my work in advancing AI technology,” Layli said in a video of the speech. Fanvue World AI Creator AwardsThe inaugural Miss AI contest opened in spring, drawing entries from some 1,500 AI programmers around the world, according to organizers Fanvue, an influencer platform for both AI and human creators. Fanvue World AI Creator AwardsRunner-up Lalina Valina from France.

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watch nowHousing inflation has remained stubbornly high even as inflation in the broad U.S. economy has cooled significantly from peak levels during the pandemic era. At a high level, "shelter" inflation is a measure of U.S. rental prices, said Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist at the National Association of Realtors. Why CPI shelter inflation has fallen slowlyThe pullback in shelter inflation has been slower than expected, economists said. How the CPI reflects homeownershipThe shelter inflation index is meant to measure the average cost of housing in the U.S. economy, J.P. Morgan's Seydl said. "When it comes to the CPI, [shelter] does not mean the cost for homes for purchase," said the NAR's Lautz.

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☆ Here's the inflation breakdown for June 2024 — in one chart
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

They also generally like to examine "core" inflation readings. The monthly core CPI reading was 0.1% in June, the smallest increase in about three years, since August 2021. Shelter inflation has moderated much slower than expected, one of the big reasons inflation hasn't yet fallen back to target, economists said. There were encouraging signals in the latest CPI report: Monthly shelter inflation dropped to 0.2% after being stuck at 0.4% for four consecutive months. Services inflation is the trouble spotInflation for physical goods spiked as the U.S. economy reopened in 2021.

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☆ Olivia Culpo said she didn't want her wedding dress to 'exude sex,' sparking a debate about modest gowns
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewOlivia Culpo's wedding dress is causing a stir online. Olivia Culpo said she didn't want her wedding dress to 'exude sex'Culpo's three Dolce & Gabbana wedding dresses each had a distinct look. Advertisement"There is nothing wrong with wanting a modest wedding dress or just modest attire in general," Bingham said. Culpo's dress might be part of a resurgence of traditional wedding gownsCulpo's ceremony dress is a departure from recent wedding fashion trends, as many brides have gravitated toward sheer or heavily detailed gowns. Despite her back and forth with Bingham, Culpo reiterated that she loved her dress in another Instagram post about her wedding gown shared on Wednesday.

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☆ Rhaenys had to die on 'House of the Dragon' for the war to begin
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Those who have read "Fire and Blood" weren't surprised to see Princess Rhaenys Targaryen, the Queen Who Never Was, and her dragon Meleys fall to Aemond Targaryen and Vhagar. But for "House of the Dragon" to fully commit to its devastating dragon war, fought between a woman with a rightful claim to the throne and her usurper younger half-brother, Rhaenys needed to die. Eve Best and Steve Toussaint as Rhaenys and Corlys Velaryon in season two, episode four of "House of the Dragon." Ollie Upton/HBOBut despite her acquiescence, the wrong of denying Rhaenys the throne hangs like a pall over "House of the Dragon," and Rhaenyra especially. When her husband, Lord Corlys Velaryon, brings up her denial of the throne, Rhaenys says that she shuttered her ambition "a generation ago."

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This week, a reader who realized marriage is a dealbreaker doesn't want to actually break the deal. AdvertisementDear For Love & Money,My boyfriend of nine years says he doesn't believe in marriage because his parents had an ugly divorce. But now we're nearly a decade in, talking about having kids, and I realize that getting married is a dealbreaker for me. AdvertisementThere are obviously tax advantages to getting married and financial disadvantages to having kids with someone who isn't your spouse. After all, if your authentic self wants to get married and his authentic self doesn't, what other options do you have?

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☆ What's the deal with the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy in 'House of the Dragon'?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewRhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D'Arcy) and Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) discuss the Song of Ice and Fire prophecy at the end of "House of the Dragon," season two, episode three — which is a major reference to "Game of Thrones." what caused their divide: King Viserys (Paddy Considine). Related storiesHowever, Rhaenyra quickly figures out that he was actually trying to talk to her about the Song of Ice and Fire. The Song of Ice and Fire is a nod to "Game of Thrones"Olivia Cooke as Alicent Hightower and Emma D'Arcy as Rhaenyra Targaryen in "House of the Dragon." So it's entirely possible that future projects might also build more history into Aegon's prophecy in the "Game of Thrones" timeline.

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"House of the Dragon" finally returned on Sunday night, two years after season one aired on HBO and became a smash hit. Rhaenyra, in mourning, needs to see her dead son for herselfRhaenyra discovers the remains of Arrax, her son Lucerys' dragon, in the season two premiere of "House of the Dragon." Daemon makes an oopsieDaemon (Matt Smith) and Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) in "House of the Dragon" season 2. Back in King's Landing, the assassins that Daemon sent after Aemond close inEwan Mitchell as Aemond Targaryen in "House of the Dragon" season two. Olivia Cooke as Alicent in season two of "House of the Dragon."

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☆ Olivia Cooke says it's 'hysterical' that she's 30 and playing a grandmother in 'House of the Dragon'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Olivia Cooke spoke to The Times about the age gap between characters on HBO's "House of the Dragon." Cooke, 30, plays Alicent Hightower. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOlivia Cooke has shared her thoughts about playing a grandmother in "House of the Dragon," despite being 30 years old. The British actor portrays Alicent Hightower in the "Game of Thrones" prequel series, which returns for its second season on June 16.

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For Love & Money is a weekly Business Insider column answering relationship and money questions. This week, a reader's neighbor expects them to help pay for a garden between their homes. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form. Not to say your neighbors are scheming over their morning coffee for ways to force you to share a garden with them. Write to For Love & Money using this Google form .

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☆ I just don’t get the ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of the Dragon’ obsession
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

And people love them some “Game of Thrones.” Like seriously love it. (I also have to read book series in strict order, but I digress). The first book is titled “A Game of Thrones” and I settled in fully expecting to be engrossed by all 694 pages. Ollie Upton/HBOWih this weekend’s premiere of the second season of the “Game of Thrones” spinoff “House of the Dragon” I decided to try again. So sorry “House of the Dragon,” it doesn’t appear we’re meant to be.

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