Month: January 2022

As we welcome the Lunar New Year on Tuesday, let’s give a collective hug to the Year of the Ox because in the past year, COVID-19 vaccinations allowed our family and friends to hug again. I’m not even a hugger, but I shamelessly and desperately went a little crazy reuniting with loved ones. Because Lunar New Year is tied […]

What people are listening to at the moment on Spotify is associated with stock market returns, according to a study in the peer-reviewed Journal of Financial Economics. The study, published in August 2021, looked at positivity in the songs of the daily top 200 in 40 countries as a measure of mood in its citizens.  It […]

Shopping around for a deal on a credit card seems like one of those things that’s pretty straight forward. Low, eye-catching rates are plastered all over websites for those doing research online and paper envelopes with special credit card offers pop up in the mail.  But are credit card issuers, really, all that competitive? The Consumer […]

Shopping around for a deal on a credit card seems like one of those things that’s pretty straight forward. Low, eye-catching rates are plastered all over websites for those doing research online and paper envelopes with special credit card offers pop up in the mail.  But are credit card issuers, really, all that competitive? The Consumer […]

CHICAGO – A nationwide chain with hundreds of coronavirus testing sites is encouraging site operators to break off from Center for COVID Control management as the business suspends operations “indefinitely” and questions emerge about two other labs in the Chicago area. Center for Covid Control founders Aleya Siyaj and Akbar Syed this week “encouraged the […]

Democrats hope Biden Supreme Court pick gives boost for 2022 midterms News Sports Entertainment Life Money Tech Travel Opinion Senate Democrats appointing the first Black woman on the court could ignite the progressive base and donors, but experts warn it’s not enough. Democrats are given the chance to confirm the nation’s first Black woman to the high court. […]

A winter storm brewing in the northeast is set to upend weekend travel plans, with more than 5,600 U.S. flights canceled between Friday and Sunday. The powerful nor’easter started going through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Friday night. Airlines canceled more than 3,500 Saturday flights within, into, or out of the United States, as of 8 a.m. ET, according to […]

A winter storm brewing in the northeast is set to upend weekend travel plans, with more than 5,600 U.S. flights canceled between Friday and Sunday. The powerful nor’easter is expected to rip through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast starting Friday night. Airlines canceled more than 1,450 Friday flights within, into, or out of the United States and delayed over 5,650, according […]

Stan Kroenke, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, paid $5 billion to build SoFi Stadium and recently learned something about the investment. It does not include home-field advantage. When the Rams and the San Francisco 49ers play Sunday at SoFi Stadium in the NFC championship game, the 49ers faithful is expected to make themselves at […]

Their checks to the U.S. Treasury were cashed nearly a year ago. But taxpayers say they’re now receiving letters from the Internal Revenue Service asking them to immediately file their 2020 federal income tax returns. Yes, copies of their 2020 returns. Yes, the same paper returns they filed last spring.  “Please file today,” the letter […]