There are times when cash really is king; after all, it's important to have an easily accessible emergency fund to cover unexpected expenses. However, having excess cash beyond those six to nine months worth of expenses can mean missing out on major returns.
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At 10:23 a.m. on Friday, April 5, New York City was rattled by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake. You may not normally associate New York City with earthquakes, but they do occasionally happen. While there are no reports of damage so far, this was a fairly large one for the area—and its impacts were felt throughout the tristate area and even as far south as Baltimore. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the epicenter of the quake was in Lebanon, New Jersey. The Ramapo fault...
MPs voted this week to ban anyone aged 15 or younger in 2024 from buying cigarettes. If the legislation passes and is enacted, it would be a world first. Ben Quinn reportsBefore 2007, going out on the town in the UK involved inhaling secondhand smoke – on trains, in restaurants, in clubs and in pubs. Even non-smokers would find that a stale tobacco scent could linger after an evening out. The ban on smoking indoors in public places changed things almost overnight.Now with smoking rates among the...
This has to be a tough start to the week for Donald Trump. After a flurry of Hail Marys failed to delay District Attorney Alvin Bragg's case, the former president now sits in a New York City courtroom as his hush money/election interference trial gets underway. To make matters worse, his beloved social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT), is getting pummeled in the stock market. Three weeks ago, DJT began trading, and anyone — from MAGA supporters to foreign sovereign wealth...
How rich have America’s super rich become? The annual compensation of Steve Schwarzman, the chief exec of the private-equity colossus Blackstone Inc., offers up one telling yardstick. In 2023, we learned earlier this year, Schwarzman’s take-home actually fell some 30 percent off what he collected the year before. But Schwarzman’s overall payday for that year, even after that tanking, still amounted to a jaw-dropping $896.7 million. The current personal net worth of Blackstone’s CEO? The...
The least successful House speaker in history—the only one to be ousted—is taking time out of his revenge agenda to take a stab at rewriting history to somehow make himself the hero. That includes a Georgetown University event called “How Strong Is Our Democracy? With Kevin McCarthy.” Politico reports that despite that title, at “a time when both Democrats and Republicans—for very different reasons—warn that ‘democracy is on the ballot’ in 2024, he didn’t seem to have that level of concern about...
This year’s Palm Springs-based festival brought together some of the industry’s biggest names, from headliners like Tyler, the Creator to Doja Cat, as well as a raft of guests including Olivia Rodrigo and ShakiraDoja Cat at Coachella review – an electrifying tour de forceNo Doubt at Coachella review – a joyous, high-energy reunionTyler, the Creator at Coachella review – an exhilarating, high-stakes spectacleLana Del Rey at Coachella review – a disappointingly lifeless start to the festival...
It’s always a bit of a cheat to describe a new movie strictly in terms of the mental connections it sparks with what’s come before; every film is unique in some way, and describing a movie only by naming its most obvious influences (intentional or otherwise) is rarely best practices. That being said: This trailer for Chris Prine’s Poolman sure has some pretty heavy Big Lebowski vibes, huh? The surface similarities are almost inescapable, as writer/director/star Pine sports long hair and a...
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claim they’re working on a new land crossing between Israel and Gaza, to allow more aid to get to civilians who are in hard-to-reach areas. An IDF spokesperson said it will be a new land crossing. This comes after the Israeli defence minister said on Wednesday that the country plans […]
A new wave of younger people are going into the building trades, but experts and policymakers say that Maine needs many more of them.
There's a number from Amazon's Fallout series that can actually be called, only the person that picks up doesn't send all that pleased to hear from you. Light spoilers ahead for the Fallout show. Whenever there's a phone number clearly shown in a piece of media, the first question should always be "does anything happen when you call this number?" A lot of the time it won't lead to anything, as they're often fake, but sometimes production companies will set it up so that when you call the...