Wealth

Most kids between 8- and 13-years-old spend their days riding bikes, playing video games and avoiding homework. Ray Dalio, Bill Gates and Jack Dorsey weren’t most kids. The trio of billionaires each found their professional calling before turning 15. And while their early exposure to finance, tech and business was somewhat serendipitous, Dalio says he
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Calling all brainiacs: Bill Gates wants people with high IQs to work for climate-friendly businesses instead of flocking to Wall Street. At a recent TechCrunch event, Gates spoke about how his climate-focused fund, Breakthrough Energy, has attempted to lure the types of high-IQ employees who’d otherwise be seeking lucrative gigs in fields like investment banking.
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amriphoto Most millennial millionaires feel optimistic about the U.S. economy, with nearly three-quarters expecting improvements by the end of 2022, according to the latest CNBC Millionaire Survey. Inflation concerns are a theme throughout the survey, with 37% of millionaires saying it’s the biggest risk to the economy over the next 12 months, the findings show. 
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Chief executives at 228 American companies co-signed a letter on Thursday urging members of the U.S. Senate to take “bold, urgent action” to pass legislation aimed at reducing gun violence in America. The CEOs who signed the letter represent companies both large and small across a wide range of industries, including some highly recognizable names:
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is no stranger to criticizing other tech companies for monitoring their users’ data. Now, he’s upping the ante – by indicating that such data collection could soon become a widespread problem for society at large. At the TIME100 Summit 2022 on Tuesday, Cook said he was “quite worried” about tech companies
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After more than two years of closed border policies, Japan is set to welcome back international travelers this week. Come June 10, foreign tourists traveling via packaged tours can enter Japan. However, the government’s priority still lies in boosting domestic tourism numbers, said Tadashi Shimura, president of Japan Association of Travel Agents. Even before the
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Fstop123 | E+ | Getty Images Tax breaks designed to boost retirement savings may primarily benefit higher earners, leaving middle-class workers behind, according to a report from the National Institute on Retirement Security. With most Americans receiving less than half of preretirement income from Social Security, many rely on employer-sponsored savings plans and individual retirement
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NAACP President Derrick Johnson Courtesy: NAACP At the end of May, word circulated that the Biden administration was leaning toward a student loan forgiveness plan of $10,000 per borrower. Officials at the NAACP were livid. The association’s president and CEO, Derrick Johnson, said in a statement soon after the news broke that $10,000 “in cancellation
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