This Week on TRB
Posted October 23, 2021 by Cameron Rufus Future Proof Festival: September 11th-14th 2022 I have 300 FREE registrations for financial advisors on a first come, first serve basis. This is NOT a drill🎈 https://t.co/AQO84vdFIw pic.twitter.com/8A8bWAXDr0 — Downtown Josh Brown (@Downtown) October 20, 2021 This week we announced the Future ProofContinue Reading
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey says ‘hyperinflation’ will happen soon in the U.S. and the world
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square, speaks during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey weighed in on escalating inflation in the U.S.,Continue Reading
This 31-year-old travel blogger lives in France on $53 a day—here’s how she spends her money
Kesi Irvin never imagined that she would spend her life traveling the world. “When I was little, I was always that person who excelled in everything that I did,” Irvin, 31, tells CNBC Make It. “In school, I had straight A’s the entire time, I had leadership positions … IContinue Reading
This handwritten letter by 18-year-old Steve Jobs is up for auction — and could fetch up to $300,000
If you’re a Steve Jobs fan, you can soon own a signed, handwritten letter penned by the late Apple co-founder at age 18. But it won’t come cheap. British auction house Bonhams is set to auction off the letter, which Jobs wrote to his childhood friend Tim Brown, on Nov.Continue Reading
Are you in the right career? Ask yourself these questions
Dorie Clark, author of “The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World.” We spend our days replying to emails, going to meetings, checking off to-do lists and, as our careers zip by, sometimes we wonder if we picked the right profession, or if our livesContinue Reading
4 book recommendations from Emma Grede, the first Black woman investor on ‘Shark Tank’
Emma Grede is a self-proclaimed bookworm. “There’s nothing I love to do more than read,” the 39-year-old co-founder and CEO of denim-brand Good American, and founding partner of shapewear-apparel line SKIMS, tells CNBC Make It. Grede recently appeared on ABC’s business reality show “Shark Tank” for its season 13 premiere, making history as theContinue Reading
Covid vaccine boosters are now available. Here’s who’s eligible for Pfizer, Moderna and J&J’s shots
A patient receives their coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine booster during a Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination clinic in Southfield, Michigan, U.S., September 29, 2021. Emily Elconin | Reuters Nearly 100 million people nationwide are immediately eligible to receive Covid booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authorized extra doses ofContinue Reading
Carl Icahn’s tender offer for Southwest Gas sets the table for a proxy fight
Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Company: Southwest Gas Holdings (SWX) Business: Southwest Gas Holdings purchases, distributes, and transports natural gas in Arizona, Nevada and California. The company operates in two segments, Natural Gas Operations and Utility InfrastructureContinue Reading
Third juror dismissed in Elizabeth Holmes trial after found playing Sudoku
Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., left, arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A popular puzzle game got a third juror in the Elizabeth Holmes trial dismissed after she admitted toContinue Reading
Facebook whistleblower releases documents to multiple news outlets showing company knows the harm it causes
Facebook on Friday was hit with multiple reports stemming from documents provided to news outlets by Frances Haugen, a former employee turned whistleblower. The reports cite internal company research and documents that show the company is aware of many of the harms its apps and services cause but either doesn’tContinue Reading