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☆ Mom and Dad of 14-year-old college graduate share their No. 1 parenting rule: We 'left no room for negotiating on his social skills'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

From left: Mark Wimmer, Melissa Wimmer and Mike Wimmer, who graduated from college in May at age 14. Melissa and Mark Wimmer say they "never pushed" their son Mike to do homework — but they're hard-liners when it comes to him making friends. "I'll be honest, people expect 'Young Sheldon' before they meet Mike," Melissa tells CNBC Make It, referring to the CBS television show. The Wimmers are proud of helping Mike ensure his "social skills were in line with his intellectual skills," Mark says. "Mike will be the first one to say that his parents never pushed him as far as academics go, but [that] they left no room for negotiating on his social skills."

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☆ How 'Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies' found a sound of its own
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Rollo Ross | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LOS ANGELES, May 31 (Reuters) - While songwriter Justin Tranter has attained success by penning hit pop anthems like Justin Bieber's "Sorry" and Imagine Dragons' "Believer," writing music for the Paramount+ prequel "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" took him in a new direction. "I'm very proud of my pop songs but there isn't the level of storytelling that's required for a musical," Tranter told Reuters. "Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies" is set in 1954, four years before the story of the U.S. high school movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The first season, which ends on Thursday, follows four rebellious students who unite to become the misfits of Rydell High and eventually the "Pink Ladies" clique. "We are waiting to see how an audience receives 30 original songs over 10 episodes.

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☆ Barbara Corcoran: ‘I’ve never saved a dime my whole life’—here’s why it made her richer
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Millionaires often stress the importance of saving money along your journey to financial freedom. "I'm just not a believer in saving money," Corcoran tells CNBC Make It. Now, whenever Corcoran obtains money, she thinks about the best potential ways to use it, she says. "I gave half of it away to family, friends, education funds, charities, because I really believe if you spend, money comes back to you." "And I don't believe in hoarding money, saving money, everything like that.

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Biden highlighted his administration’s work to prevent gun violence in a weekend op-ed that called out Congress to do more on the issue. Plus, they want to invest early in Florida, hoping to prove the state isn’t truly off the map for Democrats. Thinking about it: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who has been weighing a run for president, told Politico he will decide before late June. Rick Perry didn’t rule out running for president again in an interview with CNN, and wouldn’t endorse Trump. Jim Justice’s office to obtain his official calendar, NBC News first reports.

☆ Cramer's Lightning Round: I am not a believer in Coinbase
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

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☆ He Told Followers to Starve to Meet Jesus. Why Did So Many Do It?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Andrew Higgins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Delirious from hunger, a believer who had brought his family to live with a Christian doomsday cult in a remote wilderness in southeastern Kenya sent a distraught text to his younger sister last week. While he begged her help to escape, he was still in the grip of the preacher who had lured him there, promising salvation through death by starvation. “Answer me quickly, because I don’t have much time. Sister, End Times is here and people are being crucified,” Solomon Muendo, a former street hawker, told his sister. They were following the call of Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a former taxi driver turned televangelist who, declaring that the world was about to end, marketed Shakahola to his followers as an evangelical Christian sanctuary from the fast-approaching apocalypse.

☆ I saw a quantum computer used by JPMorgan, with Microsoft and Nvidia as partners, and it was mind-blowing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Quantum computers are wondrous because they operate on quantum mechanics. Quantum computers are wondrous because they operate on quantum mechanics: the tiniest parts of the universe where the rules of physics as we think we know them don't always apply. I visited as part of an invitational media-and-analysts' day held a few days before Quantinuum officially launched H2, its 32-qubit, second-generation quantum computer on Tuesday. Companies like Nvidia and Microsoft, which is building its own quantum computer, are partners to Quantinuum. A schematic drawing of the Quantinuum H2 computer.

☆ New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Troy Closson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Twenty years ago, during the Bloomberg administration, Chancellor Joel Klein ushered in the era of balanced literacy at city schools, until a lack of progress led him to pilot other approaches. Years later, another chancellor, Carmen Fariña, a believer in independent reading time and having students choose their own books, again encouraged schools to adopt those strategies. Mr. Banks, and the mayor, Eric Adams, who has dyslexia, has said reading would be one of the top priorities for the administration. Already, Mr. Banks has required schools to adopt phonics programs and opened several new programs for students with dyslexia. Teacher training on the new programs will begin this week and continue over the summer, and coaching will continue during the school year.

Our experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here's how). My partner was willing to carry most of our financial load — and I couldn't help but find it unfair. However, being able to prioritize my health has been a huge benefit to my wellbeing. Some people assume that people with chronic pain and fatigue can just "work through it" or distract themselves with work. When it comes down to it, I realize that I need to take care of my physical health first.

☆ If you're in a meeting and you don't want to be, just leave, says Stanford business professor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The meeting that could have been an email is not going away. Even after a pandemic challenged workplace norms, it seems like some corporations are determined to deliver their employees back into a world of lengthy all-hands or workshops. Robert I. Sutton, an organizational psychologist and professor at Stanford University, has a counterintuitive solution if you find yourself stuck in a pointless meeting: just leave. He does this, he says, at least once a week: "I'm a big believer in walking out of things." Sutton is also the co-author of the upcoming book "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder."

☆ Sam Altman is building his utopia, whether you want it or not
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully." "I don't think anyone can lose your dad young and wish he didn't have more time with him," Altman told Insider. Altman told Insider that his thinking had evolved since those posts. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

But, "you do at some point need to start having contact with reality," he told Insider. The plan was still only a rough sketch, Blania told Insider, but that didn't seem to matter to his host. "He always wanted to understand everything at a very deep level," Thrun told Insider in an email. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ A freelancer who is financially independent from his real estate portfolio shares the 'pyramid model' that helps him decide how to invest his money
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Atif Afzal has built wealth and created financial independence via real estate investing, but it's not the only place he puts his money. Real estate is the lowest risk for me because traditionally it has always grown." Despite his success as a real estate investor, he's invested in other types of assets, including cryptocurrency and the stock market. Why real estate is at the base of the pyramidFor Afzal, investing most of his money into real estate means "adopting a conservative approach," he said. Seattle-based real estate investor and self-made millionaire Todd Baldwin similarly believes that real estate investing is the most tried-and-true way to generate wealth.

☆ My 750-square-foot 'barndominium' has drawn nearly 15 million viewers. Here's a look inside the barn where I live.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

We have a 750-square-foot main residence, and a 235-square-foot tiny guest house situated on about 8 acres of land. They're low-maintenance, and our electricity bill was never over $300 in a 4,500-square-foot main residence and a 1,800-square-foot workshop in the middle of a Texas summer. So, in 2022, we sold our massive barndominium and got to work building a smaller home situated on about eight acres of land. The 750-square-foot main residence boasts a spacious bathroom and a walk-in closet with built-in storage. I recommend that anyone who's interested in building a barndominium finds a contractor that has experience building these structures.

☆ ChatGPT won't take over from humans for now, says founder of Indian tech giant
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

watch nowI am a great believer in the theory that the human mind is the most powerful imagination, machine. There is nothing that can beat the human mind. Narayana Murthy founder of InfosysMurthy was the CEO of Infosys from 1981 to 2002. The human mind is what differentiates one from the other, said Murthy. watch nowIn 1981, Murthy and six other engineers founded Infosys with an initial capital of only $250.

☆ ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Esther Zuckerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Indeed, Lottie’s methodology is proven right over the course of the fifth episode of “Yellowjackets,” where destructive secrets are wantonly shared. Teen Misty is feeling especially loose lipped thanks to her friendship with her “bestie” Crystal. And, of course, the one we already know: She destroyed the plane’s emergency transmitter the night after the crash so she could remain the Yellowjackets’ hero in crisis. Rather than celebrate their shared oddity when Misty utters the story about the transmitter, Crystal’s expression drops. Misty, facing social isolation once more, resorts to a threat, vowing to kill Crystal if she tells anyone.

☆ Want to open your first brokerage account? Follow these 4 easy steps
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Ryan Ermey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

One thing worth considering on this front is where your workplace retirement account is held, if you have one. If you have a short-term goal, such as saving for a down payment on a home, you'll likely want to open a taxable brokerage account. If you're saving for a long-term goal, such as retirement, gravitate toward an individual retirement account. Step 3: Sign up and fund your accountOnce you decide on an account, you'll have to fill out an application. Generally, you can make a deposit by linking a bank account, ordering a wire transfer, cutting a check or transferring funds from another type of brokerage account.

☆ Market may ignore recession for first time since 1945, RBC's top strategist Lori Calvasina finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Natalie Zhang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

In a research note out this week, Calvasina tackled the S&P 500's performance during recessions going back to 1937. She found the 1945 recession was the only one with no market pullback. According to RBC Capital Markets' Lori Calvasina, stocks may be ignoring all signs of a recession. "[This] idea of a manufactured recession that we were all talking about last year, you actually had it back then." "I actually think that we priced in a recession back at the October lows, but I think people are tired of hearing that," noted Calvasina.

☆ A flawed but useful economic model for a bleak age
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Edward Chancellor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

Modern Monetary Theory, which endorses unlimited government spending, was all the rage during the years of ultra-low interest rates. John Cochrane’s fiscal theory fits the bill. Cochrane, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, recently published “The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level”. Not only are high interest rates incapable of arresting inflation, fiscal theory suggests they actually make the problem worse. Nor do bondholders operate with rational expectations, as fiscal theory suggests.

☆ CEO shares the No. 1 question to 'never ever' ask at a job interview—'wait until you're called back'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Matt Higgins | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

If you're a job seeker, here's a piece of advice you likely won't hear from anyone else: Never ever ask an employer what their remote work policy is during the job interview. ", know that I'm actually a firm believer in hybrid and remote work. Taking it one step further, following their mass layoffs, Meta has paused offering remote work options for new hires. Imagine this scenario: You close your interview with a question about remote work and get a chilly reception. But there is a real chance that the other job seeker will be perceived as more committed.

☆ NYPD's robot dogs are back after backlash. NYC Mayor Eric Adams says 'we cannot be afraid' of the technology.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The NYPD's robotic dogs are "out of the pound" again, mayor Eric Adams announced earlier this week. Adams announced during a press conference earlier this week that the city spent $750,000 on two robotic canines the NYPD calls "Digidogs. " He said the dogs can "save lives" in situations where "you can't have police officers going inside because it's dangerous." The announcement comes just two years after the NYPD halted an experiment with the robotic dogs. In addition to the robot dogs, the NYPD will begin testing the StarChase pilot, a device that shoots a GPS-tracker to a stolen car, and the K5 ASR, an outdoor security robot, Adams said during the press conference.

☆ 109-year-old went viral after celebrating his birthday with a belly dancer. Here are 12 lessons he says helped him have a happy, healthy life.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

After his marriage, Betty Markoff made sure he ate a mixture of protein vegetables, and rich deserts, but always eaten in moderation, he said. Later in life, Markoff made a good living as a vacuum salesman. From a young age, Markoff picked up odd jobs here and there, working as a shoeshine boy, newspaper boy, and more. Love deeply and take care of peopleMorrie and Betty Markoff on their 80th wedding anniversary. Courtesy of Thomas MarkoffMarkoff puts down a lot of his long life to luck.

☆ A retired healthcare executive returned 155% in 2020 after learning to trade stocks. Here are her top 4 tips for beating the market and the 2 books that helped her get ahead
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She also advises picking someone that matches your trading style to learn from. Vibha Jha is a retired health insurance executive who began to pursue investing and trading as a passion. In 2020, she decided to enter the US Investing Championship and trade within her Roth IRA. Top 4 tipsKnow your trading style. The source should reflect your trading style.

☆ Here are the Club’s 7 'safety stocks' for a volatile economic environment
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Paulina Likos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

PG YTD mountain YTD peformance Jim called Procter & Gamble (PG) his favorite stock in the portfolio right now. COST YTD mountain YTD peformance Costco (COST) is one of the best retailers to own in a strained economy. HUM YTD mountain YTD peformance Humana (HUM) is our managed-care play and we're holding the stock for its defensive characteristics. JNJ YTD mountain YTD peformance Health care leader Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has been a tough name to own as of late. PANW YTD mountain YTD peformance Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is one of our newer holdings, which we started in mid-February .

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