High-yield savings accounts are safe and FDIC insured up to $250,000. They offer higher compounding interest rates than traditional savings accounts, you have easy access to your funds, and your account may have no fees attached. (iStock) As of Dec. 22, 2020, there were more than 75.5 million cases of […]
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Create Multi-Platform Apps for Your Business Idea With Minimal Coding
Bring your business into the digital age with ease. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! December 12, 2020 2 min read Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, […]
The Radical Idea Of Making Sure Everybody Has Enough Money To Live On
FutureProof is a collaboration between HuffPost and Unearthed, Greenpeace UK’s journalism unit While $21 a month may not seem like a life-changing amount of money, for Denis Otieno Anam it has been exactly that. “It was a big, big thing,” said the 40-year-old teacher, who lives outside the town of […]
Retirement in Brief: A Memory-Loss Trap to Avoid, a Call for National Savings Dashboard, and an Idea to Lessen Longevity Risk
Americans should have access to a free website that tracks all of their retirement benefits, including Social Security, employer-sponsored savings plans, and individual retirement accounts, according to a new paper from the Brookings Institution. In a separate paper, the nonprofit public-policy organization says that “tontines” should be explored as potential […]
Retailers Have No Idea What Will Happen This Holiday Season
On Tuesday, consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) reported its third-quarter results, and joined the list of big-box chains declining to provide any financial guidance for the holiday quarter. Target (NYSE:TGT) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT) had already done the same, citing unprecedented uncertainty. Major retail chains that have spent the past […]
Self-taught inventor sees liquid air storage idea make the big time
owngarden | Moment | Getty Images Work has started on a liquid air energy storage site in the northwest of England, with the team behind the project stating it will be one of the largest energy storage systems in Europe. Highview Power’s 50 megawatt facility in Greater Manchester will harness […]
Relocating parts of ancient woodlands to make way for HS2 is flawed idea, ecologists say
HS2 has been accused of creating a “smokescreen for destruction” with a strategy to relocate soils from ancient woodlands facing destruction to make way for the high-speed train line. HS2 yesterday acknowledged that there was limited evidence for the success of its strategy of translocating soils and tree stumps from […]
Roger L. Martin: The Idea That More Is Always Better Is Ruining Business
Illustration by Chiara Vercesi Text size Balance is widely accepted as an essential feature of human health. When we lack balance, we become fundamentally unhealthy: obese, workaholic, narcissistic, or obsessively thrill-seeking, for example. Paradoxically, the modern worlds of economics and business have adopted as their core rule the opposite of […]
Inventors, Here’s How to License Your Idea and Make Money
September 29, 2020 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Like anything else, to improve your odds of success at licensing a product idea, you need to be able to play the game longer and smarter. The longer you’re in the game, the better chances you […]
College basketball floats idea of bubbles for safe season
The NBA bubble has held. So has the NHL’s double bubble. The WNBA and MLS, no leaks. In this unprecedented landscape of sports in a pandemic world, one indisputable fact has emerged: bubbles work. Thousands of tests, minimal to no positive COVID-19 test results. So as the NCAA gets set […]