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☆ Here's why your Thanksgiving turkey probably cost a lot more than it did last year
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Turkey farmers in the US face higher costs for feed, electricity and fuel due to an inflation surge. Bob's Turkey Farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, told Insider that all its costs are up by 25%. Bob's Turkey Farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, told Insider the cost of rearing a turkey had jumped by a quarter compared with last year but has only raised prices by up to 16%. The cost of feed, electricity, fuel, propane, oil and electricity is skyrocketing." The farm typically sells turkeys for about $6 a pound, meaning the average Thanksgiving turkey it sells costs about $100.

☆ Ad prices are now cheaper than they've been all year. Here's how much marketers are paying for ads on Google, Meta, Amazon, and TikTok.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ad prices on Meta, Amazon, and Google skyrocketed during the pandemic but are now declining. Digital ad prices are declining due to a number of factors:Advertisers are pulling back on spend on Meta and Google. Ad prices are typically low during the third quarter as marketers prepare to spend during the fourth quarter. Ad buyers usually anticipate a 15% to 20% increase in ad prices during the fourth quarter, said Vic Drabicky, founder and CEO of ad agency January Digital. As TikTok continues to build out its technology and relationships with advertisers, ad prices continue to rise.

☆ As advertisers cut spend, ads on Google, Meta, and Amazon are cheaper than they've been all year — but marketers don't expect it to last
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Lauren Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ad prices on Meta, Amazon, and Google skyrocketed during the pandemic but are now declining. Digital ad prices are declining due to a number of factors:Advertisers are pulling back on spend on Meta and Google. Ad prices are typically low during the third quarter as marketers prepare to spend during the fourth quarter. For ads designed to get people to take more immediate action, like Amazon's and Google's shopping and search ads, we looked at cost per click (CPC). As TikTok continues to build out its technology and relationships with advertisers, ad prices continue to rise.

☆ One simple investing move can set you up for huge returns and a minimal tax bill
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Carmen Reinicke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Typically, the money invested in a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k) is post-tax, meaning you've already paid the taxes on the amount contributed. An extreme example of this is investor and Palantir Technologies founder Peter Thiel, who grew a Roth IRA from $2,000 to about $5 billion in about two decades. Rules of conversion Converting assets to a Roth IRA can get around some of the other limitations on the accounts. Investors should also consider the bill they'll have by converting assets into a Roth IRA now. It also usually only makes sense to do a Roth conversion if you see your tax rate increasing in the future.

☆ In the new thriller 'Emily the Criminal,' director John Patton Ford takes on the student loan crisis
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Emily the Criminal Courtesy: John Patton FordIn the new film "Emily the Criminal," the title character, played by actress Aubrey Plaza, is almost always in a state of fear. "I think fear is the great motivator of human beings," said John Patton Ford, 40, the film's screenwriter and director. Even if the plan survives Republican challenges, outstanding student loan debt will still exceed $1 trillion, and every year an additional 5 million Americans borrow for their education. Annie Nova: From the start of the film, Emily is in a really desperate financial situation. 'No other country would tolerate this'AN: Did you research the student loan crisis for the film?

While going through a costly divorce earlier this year, Cavanaugh's flood insurance coverage lapsed. Many people in the small coastal community, which faces the Gulf of Mexico southwest of Fort Myers, did not have flood insurance coverage. It appears that, despite an increased occurrence of devastating flood events, a declining percentage of people nationwide have flood insurance policies. Chuck Larsen / SantivaChronicle.com via APOne significant issue is that many homeowners assume a typical homeowner's insurance policy covers floods. The average cost of flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program is $995 a year, according to Forbes Advisor analysis.

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty ImagesHere's what: Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan was more generous than expectedOn August 24, President Biden announced his long-awaited plan for student-loan forgiveness: Individual borrowers earning less than $125,000 would receive $10,000 of forgiveness, and students who received Pell Grants (i.e. low-income students demonstrating financial need) would receive an additional $10,000 for a total of up to $20,000 in forgiveness. "Broad student-loan forgiveness can change the course of my life, and many people's lives. Loan forgiveness is an investment in everyday people whose debt has held them back. Private student loans don't qualify for forgiveness; 3 alternatives to consider if your debt is ineligibleYou can't get forgiveness with private student loans, unlike with their federal counterparts.

This week, a reader asks: Should they use extra money to pay for college or buy a house? I want to try to buy a house with it (we have other house-buying money put aside). I feel like housing prices will only grow and a house is a good investment. He thinks the market will crash eventually. No matter what you and your partner decide to do with the money, make sure you take a minute to celebrate your achievement.

I used the 'rosebud' cheatcode to make my Sims wealthy without working, and I kept looking for the same cheatcode in real life. Now that I'm older, I realize building wealth isn't the same as the instant gratification of entering the 'rosebud' cheat. I romanticized the idea of cheating my way into wealthAside from basic financial management, I learned about the 'rosebud' cheatcode. Coupled with extra exclamation points and semicolons, the 'rosebud' cheatcode could put millions of simoleons (Sim dollars) into my Sims' bank accounts. I thought their families found the 'rosebud' cheatcode to wealth, and I was desperate to figure out how to do the same thing.

☆ I moved to an island paradise to use a village for digital nomads. Here's what it was like.
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-07 | by ( Mairead Finlay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Mairead Finlay moved to the Portuguese island of Madeira to be part of a "digital nomad" village. Now, I'm living in Europe's first village for digital nomads on the Portuguese island of Madeira, thanks to an initiative set up by the regional government and Startup Madeira to lure tech and creative talent to the island. That makes me fairly typical: A recent study estimated that 83% of the world's 35 million digital nomads worked for themselves, and 51% were marketers, developers, designers, writers, or in e-commerce. The next month, the digital-nomad village on the tropical Portuguese island of Madeira opened. Inside the village's co-work space for digital nomads.

☆ These valuable pennies are worth up to $200,000—and they might be in your pocket
▼ + stars: | 2019-07-18 | by ( Minda Zetlin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Most pennies are worth 1 cent, but to coin collectors, some are worth more than their weight in gold. While most pennies are only worth a few bucks, highly coveted ones might be sitting in your pocket or stuck somewhere in your couch cushions. 1943 Bronze Lincoln(Image: Heritage Auctions, HA.com)Only a handful of these bronze pennies have been discovered, including the one found by Lutes. "The most valuable Lincoln cent sold privately in 2010 for $1.7 million," said Stone. The doubling on the 1969-S Doubled Die Obverse is especially prominent in the words "LIBERTY" and "IN GOD WE TRUST," he said.

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