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☆ Wall Street activism is proving its influence on corporations. Just look at Disney's Bob Iger.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Investors are still digesting the news that Bob Iger will reprise his role as the chief executive of Disney. Bob Iger, CEO of Disney Charley Gallay/Stringer/Getty Images1. On Sunday, Disney announced legendary leader Bob Iger would return to his post as CEO and replace Bob Chapek, even though Chapek just months ago signed a contract extension. Disney stock had plunged 21% since Chapek's appointment in February 2020. As long as these headwinds batter the stock market, investors are likely not going to sit idly by and watch what they believe to be mismanagement by corporate leaders.

☆ New York cannabis farms have nowhere to sell a combined 300,000 pounds of weed, valued at $750 million, as delays continue for dispensaries in the state
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New York cannabis farms are unsure of what to do with a combined 300,000 pounds of weed — valued at $750 million — without open dispensaries to sell the pot. Applicants for legal cannabis retail stores are still waiting to hear back from the state's Cannabis Control Board. An estimated 300,000 pounds of weed are becoming a growing concern for farmers who planted the crop in spring 2021 in hopes of cashing in on the drug's legalization in New York state. The lot is valued at about $750 million based on the average wholesale value of $2,500 per pound, according to Bloomberg. In May, Tremaine Wright, chair of the Cannabis Control Board, said the legal retail licensing process would begin over the summer and sales would begin in late 2022.

Former President Donald Trump described in great detail Thursday night how he purportedly delivered a 2018 election win to now-Gov. Ron DeSantis by sending FBI agents to stop "ballot theft" in a major Florida county. Her comment on Twitter was in response to Trump's statement about the Florida elections that year. “The Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office has no documentation of any federal law enforcement presence during the 2018 elections,” Ivan Castro, spokesman for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, told the newspaper. "We conclude that the November 2018 election was not efficiently and effectively conducted.

☆ A spiral of violence and fear is creating angst for many voters ahead of the midterm elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

For many voters, a vicious spiral of violence and fear is creating angst, paranoia and an overwhelming sense of dread that the nation is on the eve of destruction, according to a growing body of public opinion research. Polls show a large portion of Republicans fear democracy is in peril because they believe that elections are rigged against them. Frustrated by the fear that democracy no longer serves them, some Americans are becoming convinced that violence is the answer. Steele, the former head of the national GOP, said the public and political leaders both bear responsibility for protecting the republic. “But it also gives space for people who want a safer country to plan ahead, too.

Zeldin hopes to end a two-decade drought for Republicans seeking statewide office in New York. “New Yorkers are ready,” Zeldin said. Her support in a primary for an upstate congressional district of right-wing political activist Carl Paladino who lost to the state Republican chair drew the ire of some in the state party. While there are about 3 million unaffiliated voters in New York, a successful Republican candidate has to make inroads with registered Democrats. “When I got elected they were saying the same things about me that they’re saying about Zeldin,” Pataki said.

☆ Bitcoin's break above $20,000 has investors wondering if the crypto bottom is in. Here's what analysts say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

October is a historically strong month for crypto, but this month, prices and volatility have been relatively flat. Don't call it a bottom yet The odd inactivity has investors wondering if the crypto market could be turning for the better and breaking out of this year's rut. That, combined with the recent low volatility, would provide more evidence of a bottom, but bitcoin today is still leaving derivative exchanges. "For low price volatility to be associated with bottoms, the portion of bitcoin inflows into exchanges dominated by whales ought to be relatively low," he said. CryptoQuant also analyzed bitcoin's MVRV, or market value to realized value, ratio, which shows crypto hasn't gone into undervalued territory.

WINNIPEG, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said a clear plan of action was needed before any mission to help Haiti goes forward, a day after his government sent a delegation to assess the humanitarian and security crisis in the Caribbean nation. "I'm so pleased that there is such an interest by the Caribbean countries to be part of any solution," Trudeau told reporters in Winnipeg. "But, of course, before we establish any sort of mission, we need to see a clear plan of action." When asked, neither Trudeau nor his defense minister, who was also at the news conference, responded as to whether Canada would be willing to deploy its armed forces as security in a Haiti mission. Reporting by Steve Scherer in Ottawa and Rod Nickel in Winnipeg; writing by Steve Scherer; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Paul SimaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ A top AWS exec shares advice on what you should do when the company you want to work for is in a hiring freeze
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

But they shouldn't sit idly, Nancy Wang, a top AWS exec and the founder of a nonprofit, says. Nancy Wang of AWS is the founder of Advancing Women in Tech. This is especially critical for women and members of marginalized groups who are underrepresented in technology, Wang said. So in 2017, she founded Advancing Women in Tech, a nonprofit dedicated to helping women and minorities rise in technology roles. Learn skillsIt helps to think of yourself as a product when you're looking for a job, Wang said.

☆ Once a dystopian fantasy, manipulating sunlight to cool the earth is now on the White House research agenda
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

"The stratosphere is calm, and things stay up there for a long time," Parson told CNBC. That sulfur dioxide goes through other chemical reactions and eventually falls to the earth as sulfuric acid in rain. Known risks to people and the environmentThere are significant and well-known risks to some of these techniques — sulfur dioxide aerosol injection in particular. And spraying sulfur in the stratosphere would contribute in the bad direction to all of those effects," Parson told CNBC. His goal is "simply that we learn more and develop better mechanism[s] for governance," he told CNBC.

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson, who delivered bombshell testimony about Trump's conduct on Jan. 6, agrees to cooperate with Georgia prosecutor investigating 2020 election tampering: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is cooperating with Georgia district attorney Fani Willis. Hutchinson told January 6 investigators about Donald Trump's efforts to undo the 2020 election. Willis is looking into Trump's alleged interference in Georgia's election results. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Willis has been trying to get Meadows to testify for months, but the former Trump White House chief of staff has yet to cooperate.

An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Inside an Animal Sanctuary in Bolivia Where Tourists Can Help
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Photographs Yael Martínez | Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

An animal voyage is special because it requires us to make many journeys all at once. My favorite record of an animal voyage is a book that’s fluent in failure. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Lessons From a Lifetime of Animal Voyages
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Sam Anderson | Photographs Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

☆ Where the Wild Things Are
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( The New York Times Magazine | Photographs Yael Martínez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat. “If the snow leopard should manifest itself, then I am ready to see the snow leopard,” Matthiessen writes. “We’ve seen so much, maybe it’s better if there are some things that we don’t see.”Today, nearly 50 years later, if you are so inclined, you can go see a snow leopard at the zoo. The best trips, like Peter Matthiessen’s search for the snow leopard, find a way to make themselves permanent. To return home from an animal voyage is to become, yourself, a new animal living in your old habitat.

☆ Unilever violating merger deal over Israel sale - Ben & Jerry's founders on MSNBC
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Ice creams of Ben & Jerry's, a Unilever brand, are seen at their shop in London, Britain, October 5, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File PhotoSept 18 (Reuters) - The founders of ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's said on MSNBC on Sunday that parent Unilever PLC (ULVR.L) is in violation of the 2000 merger deal over its sale of Ben & Jerry's business in Israel to a local licensee who could sell their products in the West Bank. "That agreement gave authority over the social mission to the independent board of Ben & Jerry's. Ben & Jerry's said earlier this month that it plans to amend its lawsuit challenging Unilever's sale of the Israeli business in Federal court in Manhattan. read moreRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Alden Bentley; Editing by Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ I'm a 17-year-old high school student who can't vote. Here's why I built a system to track Congress' troubling stock trades.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-10 | by ( George Mccain | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As a 17-year-old student at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, I can't even vote. I would spend the summer of 2021 creating a website — SenateTrades, I dubbed it — that analyzed senators' public financial disclosures. During an April congressional hearing, there was some bipartisan consensus that changes need to be made to congressional stock trading. My high school social studies class certainly didn't cover congressional stock trading. George McCain is a rising senior at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

☆ How a former freelance journalist emptied her savings and put $20,000 on her credit card to turn a Vietnamese-coffee side hustle into a full-time business
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-11 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sahra Nguyen was a freelance journalist when she started building Nguyen Coffee Supply in 2016. She saw an injustice in US coffee culture because Vietnamese coffee was missing from the market. From journalist to business ownerNguyen started her career as a freelance journalist with a desire to tell stories about the Asian American community. Starting Nguyen Coffee Supply wasn't just about sharing a love for coffee, she added. With Nguyen Coffee Supply, Nguyen said she hoped to spread the word about Vietnamese coffee and, in the process, "elevate the culture and community and products."

☆ All the best products we’ve tested in 2021 (so far)
▼ + stars: | 2021-11-03 | by ( Cnn Underscored Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +62 min

Best coffee subscription: Blue Bottle (starting at $11 per shipment; bluebottle.com)Blue BottleBlue Bottle’s coffee subscription hit all of our marks during the testing process. This mask, though, formed the best seal around the edges, blocking out more light than any other mask we tested. Not only does it keep your drinks hot or cold for many hours, it’s solidly durable and has the best lid we’ve ever tested. Best smart display: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($99.99, originally $129.99; amazon.com)AmazonThe Echo Show 8 is the best smart display we tested, with a versatile 8-inch screen in a build that really fits anywhere. Best smart thermostat: Nest Learning Thermostat ($223, originally $229; amazon.com)GoogleThe Nest Learning Thermostat studies your habits and controls the temperature in your home automatically.

Before reading "Millionaire Teacher," I thought my investing options were: go it alone, or hire a pro. But, as it turns out, there's a Goldilocks-esque option sitting smack-dab in the middle that I'd never considered: intelligent investment firms. Hallam uses Vanguard's Target Retirement Funds to outline how intelligent investing works (though robo-advisors aren't quite the same thing). In addition to the Vanguard Target Retirement Funds described above, which come with a wide range of target retirement dates, Hallam lists out a series of companies that offer the same services. ), you might really benefit from handing the reins over to an intelligent investment firm.

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I started by asking a financial advisor for help, then opening a SEP IRA and funding it little by little. Every time someone brought up the idea of a retirement account, I rolled my eyes and tuned them out. I asked for helpWhen I decided to start saving seriously for retirement, I didn't know what to do first. I considered all my retirement account optionsI was always so intimidated by how many retirement account options there were. This allowed me to build up year one of my SEP IRA and play a bit of catch-up.

☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
▼ + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +57 min

Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.

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