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This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. You’ve probably heard plenty about The American Rescue Plan’s COVID-19 relief checks, expanded child care tax credits and unemployment benefit provisions. But what you likely don’t know is how age-friendly it is. In fact, The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 could well be one of the most […]

Hulu will welcome back its most popular original series in April, along a trio of buzz-worthy documentaries and some ’90s-movie favorites. After a two-year layoff, “The Handmaid’s Tale” (April 28) returns for a fourth season. The Emmy-winning dystopian drama picks up with June (Elisabeth Moss) facing new challenges as she leads a rebellion against the […]

SYDNEY — Blackstone Group Inc. made a takeover offer for Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd. valued at $ 6 billion, as regulators investigate Crown’s business practices and threaten to rescind its casinos licenses. The U.S. investment firm has offered 11.85 Australian dollars, or the equivalent of $ 9.15, a share for Crown, a 20% premium to its closing share price […]

Tech companies could face a flurry of new antitrust legislation rather than one big overhaul bill, if the Democratic chairman of the House’s antitrust panel has his way. In an interview with Axios on Sunday, Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, said he hopes to pass a number of […]

Turkey’s newly appointed central bank governor sought to reassure markets on Sunday as investors braced for turmoil following the abrupt firing of his predecessor by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Sahap Kavcioglu, a former member of parliament from Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party who was named to the post late Friday, said the bank’s main objective is to […]

Lou McCall is ready for the sound of one ‘ding’ to change his life. Up to this point, past-due utility bills, an averted electricity shut-off notice, looming child-care costs and troubling car sounds have been part of the background noise for the married math teacher with three young kids. The ding, McCall, 32, hopes, will […]

Millions of Americans are getting their COVID-19 shots every day, but the U.S. is still going to need better treatments that can nip mild or moderate cases of COVID-19 before they become serious.  There are a number of reasons that people could still get sick after they are vaccinated. There will be “breakthrough” cases, since […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE You’d have to hold U.S. Treasury bonds for 57 years to not lose to inflation. See full story. IRS: We’ll delay April 15 tax-filing deadline by one month — but there’s one caveat The IRS has already received more than 55 million tax returns. See full story. Duckhorn IPO: 5 things to […]

Dear Quentin, How can one best give sizable cash gifts to family and friends without being seen as “flaunting wealth”? We have some family and friends who are struggling to make ends meet, particularly as a result of the pandemic. Having means, we chose to help them financially and sent sizable checks. So as not […]

Heather-Elizabeth Brown, a corporate trainer and volunteer police chaplain who lives outside of Detroit, Mich., never expected to be drafting her will at 35. But there she was in a hospital room last April, writing on a napkin: Her prized book collection should go to her best friend Niqui. Her makeup and hair supplies should […]

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE You’d have to hold U.S. Treasury bonds for 57 years to not lose to inflation. See full story. IRS: We’ll delay April 15 tax-filing deadline by one month — but there’s one caveat The IRS has already received more than 55 million tax returns. See full story. Duckhorn IPO: 5 things to […]

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Back in the 1990s, when I worked at Money magazine, David Lereah was a go-to source for our real estate stories. His job then: chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association (he later held that job at the National Association of Realtors). I lost track of Lereah […]

March Madness is giving TV viewers a full-court press of basketball binge-watching this weekend. While the NCAA pares the field of 68 teams to an national champion on April 5 in Indianapolis, another field of hoops contestants is vying for title of best trick shot. XvsX Sports, the basketball app founded by ex-NBA star Metta […]

At least $ 28 billion flowed into public and private electric-vehicle companies last year, including Tesla TSLA, +0.26% and Nio NIO, +4.13%. That’s not counting an even larger amount that went to autonomous-vehicle tech through blank-check companies such as Fisker FSR, +3.24%. Some warn that investors seeking the next big thing are overvaluing young companies. […]

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris expressed outrage and sympathy on Friday as they visited Atlanta to meet with Asian-American leaders in the wake of shootings that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent. “Hate can have no safe harbor in America,” Biden said in a speech at Emory University. […]

Michael Cohen, former President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer, said in a newly unsealed court document that he learned about startups in prison, as he pleaded to be released early from home confinement. Cohen — who was convicted in 2018 on charges including campaign-finance violations related to a hush-money scheme involving women who alleged affairs with […]

Dear Moneyist, I am a remarried father of three boys and three girls; three of those children are from a previous marriage. My wife and I are looking to buy a house next year. She recently told me that she is going to put it in her name only, as she is worried about my […]

Hi there, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance There’s hope for people who missed a valuable tax break on unemployment benefits Though jobless benefits count as taxable income, one part of the sprawling law says the first $ 10,200 of those benefits are exempt from federal income taxes for households making under $ […]

The question still reverberating in financial markets is to what degree the $ 1.9 trillion coronavirus relief will be spent, either immediately or if the virus recedes enough for shoppers to be allowed, and wanting, to go out. This column previously pointed to surveys of both how the initial $ 600 stimulus was used, and […]