Welcome to Money Diaries where we are tackling the ever-present taboo that is money.We’re asking real people how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period — and we’re tracking every last penny. Today: an IT architect working in transportation who makes $110,000 per year and spends some of her money this week on…
GOP agrees to pay up to $1.6 million of Trump’s legal bills in N.Y. probes
The Republican Party has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million in legal bills for former president Donald Trump to help him fight investigations into his business practices in New York, according to Republican National Committee members and others briefed on the decision.Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight The party’s executive committee overwhelmingly approved…
Daniel Levy And Eugene Levy Throwback Photos: Father, Son And Brows | PEOPLE.com
Eugene & Dan Levy’s Father-Son Throwbacks Featuring Their Greatest Assets: Their Brows Schitt’s Creek ‘s on- and off-screen father-son duo have an un-brow-lievably close relationship, filled with love, humor and great genes By Diane J.Cho Updated December 17, 2021 11:55 AM Skip gallery slides FB Tweet More View All Next Slide 1 of 8 FB…
Kenyans find rural lifeline after Covid city exodus – BBC News
Kenyans find rural lifeline after Covid city exodus By Vivienne Nunis BBC News Published 1 day ago Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic Image source, WORLD NEIGHBOURS Image caption, Geoffrey Barasa now farms in western Kenya after losing his two jobs in Nairobi If the coronavirus pandemic had not happened, it is likely Jack Onyango would still…
Regulators open probe into red hot ‘buy now, pay later’ industry
Regulators in Washington may crack down on the industry behind “buy now, pay later,” the increasingly popular method for consumers to purchase things online.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday that it is looking to “collect information on the risks and benefits of these fast-growing loans” from five leading BNPL companies: Affirm; Australia’s Afterpay, which…
Tucker Carlson: Biden’s economic policy, labor shortage ‘not a good sign’
Here’s a question — what happens when you crush entire sectors of your own economy for nearly two years and then, to compensate for your crime, you decide to inject trillions of dollars of freshly printed cash into the system? What happens if you do that? Well, honestly, we don’t really know what happens when…
Fired McD’s CEO returns $105M after lying about relationships
Former McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook has paid back more than $105 million in equity awards and cash to the burger giant after it learned that he had lied about the extent of his misconduct while he was its top executive. “During my tenure as CEO, I failed at times to uphold McDonald’s values and fulfill…
How America Really Feels About COVID Deaths
In late May of 2020, the U.S.hit one of what has become so many grim pandemic milestones: our first 100,000 dead from COVID-19.I remember how heartbroken I was then—and how frustrated.The novel coronavirus, a stealthy pathogen, was bound to take a toll no matter how perfect Americans’ response was to the crisis.But Americans’ response was…
Kim Jong-un 10 years: 10 N Koreans reflect on last decade – BBC News
Kim Jong-un: N Korean defectors reflect on last decade By Laura Bicker BBC News, Seoul Published 20 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing It’s 10 years since an untested 27-year-old took power in North Korea and in that time few world leaders have generated as many headlines.But what has it been…
Where Do I Fall in the American Economic Class System? | Family Finance
When asked how they identify their social class, nearly three-quarters of Americans said they belonged to the middle or working classes, according to one survey.(Getty Stock) Understanding where you fall in the American economic class system isn’t as simple as pulling out a calculator or looking at a pay stub. Myriad forces shape individuals’ economic…