A Black-footed Ferret at a Prairie Dog Burrow getty In the late 19th century, state and local tax officials employed private tax investigators — known as “tax ferrets” or “tax inquisitors” — to facilitate the collection of general property taxes. Compensated using a bounty system, these private sector collectors were expected to shore up flagging …
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Flipping from 2021 to 2022 getty The new year is the season of planning for goals and for many of us, it is crucial to have money be there to meet those goals. Investing is the fuel that can get those funds to the right level, and you do not want to run out of …
Most boardrooms are ruled by the bottom line. Too many CEOs can recite a decade’s worth of earnings records but can’t hold a meaningful conversation about the communities they operate in or the customers they serve. However, in the last few years, that attitude has started to shift. More leaders understand that being good and …
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Topline Video game company Take-Two Interactive, known for “Grand Theft Auto,” “NBA 2K” and “Red Dead Redemption,” announced Monday that it is buying mobile gaming company Zynga in a blockbuster $12.7 billion deal, one of the industry’s largest acquisitions to date. Take-Two’s acquisition increases Zynga cofounder Mark Pincus’ net worth by around $150 million in …
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If you are feeling stuck, Anne Raimondi, COO of Asana, has a reassuring reminder: It’s totally normal. Raimondi, who previously worked as an executive at Guru, ZenDesk, and TaskRabbit, views ruts as situations in which you simply aren’t thriving. She says it’s valuable to acknowledge that such periods are a to-be-expected part of any high-growth …
(Photo by Mario Tama) Getty Images The five major equity averages ended 2021 with positive weekly charts. This is no longer the case at the end of the first week of 2022. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) set its all-time intraday high of 36,952.65 on January 5. Its weekly chart is positive. The S&P …
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The average person today will spend about 90,0000 hours of their life at work. Unofficially, due to increasingly blurred boundaries between work and home, that number may be even higher. In exchange for that time commitment, employers traditionally provided financial security. Employees often traded freedom and flexibility for the peace of mind that comes from …
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Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero …
In Georgia, not far from a massive electric vehicle battery plant under construction and another multibillion-dollar factory where electric truck startup Rivian will manufacture its vehicles, the largest battery recycling facility in North America will also open later this year. The company behind it, Battery Resourcers, wants to help solve two challenges—how to handle the …
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Several market observers weigh in on what\’s next for bitcoin. getty Bitcoin prices have had an interesting day today, declining to their lowest in more than three months and then bouncing back. The world’s largest digital currency by market value dropped to $39,677.65 this morning, according to CoinDesk data. At this point, it was trading …
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