What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. Bloomberg reports: While concrete figures on... Read more »
While millions of Americans no doubt enjoyed some degree of schadenfreude watching the correction in FAANG stocks wipe out nearly $1 trillion of value from the largest US tech firms: Mark Zuckerberg alone has... Read more »
Americans are paying less to fill up their SUVs for a seventh week in a row as the price of gas slides toward yearly lows. CBS MoneyWatch reports: Since hitting a four-year... Read more »
Harvey Coleman wrote Empowering Yourself: The Organizational Game Revealed. In the book, Coleman shows how to succeed at work. A poster on reddit shares a summary by Wendy Nemitz of “Empowering Yourself”... Read more »
Facebook is experiencing one its worst days as a publicly traded company. According to CNBC, Facebook lost about $119 billion of its value on Thursday, marking the biggest one-day loss in U.S.... Read more »
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person, reports Bloomberg. Zuckerberg only trails Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. From the report: “It’s the... Read more »
Belying its simplicity and ubiquity, the price tag is a surprisingly recent economic development, Aeon magazine writes. For centuries, haggling was the norm, ultimately developing into a system that required clerks and... Read more »
The gap between the super rich and the rest of the world widened as wealth continued to be owned by a small minority, according to Oxfam report. The world’s richest one percent... Read more »
Apple announced on Wednesday it will invest $350 billion in the U.S. economy over the next five years while creating 20,000 new jobs thanks to the new tax law. The company expects... Read more »
Walmart Stores Inc., the largest private U.S. employer, plan to raise its starting hourly wage to $11 and to give bonuses to employees to stay competitive in a tightening labor market. Taking... Read more »