Friends, America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter century. The United Auto Workers, the Writers Guild of America, the actors’ union known as SAG-AFTRA, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, the Teamsters and UPS, flight attendants. The list goes on. Over 4 million workdays were lost to stoppages last month, according…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The crash of an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in South Carolina over the weekend has raised numerous questions about what prompted the pilot to eject and how the $100 million warplane was able to keep flying pilotless for 60 miles (100 kilometers) before crashing. Here’s what is known about the modern…
One of the many changes made by the SECURE Act 2.0 was that, starting in 2024, catch-up contributions to 401(k), 403(b), and governmental 457(b) plans would have to be Roth (rather than tax-deferred) for any employee whose wages from the employer in question in the prior year were more than $145,000. Many employers and plan…
Updated September 2023. Do you have small business income or work as an independent contractor? Freelance, Uber/Lyft, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Airbnb? A small business credit card separates your personal and business expenses and can build up your business credit profile. If you are not a corporation or LLC, you can apply as a sole proprietorship,…
Crude oil, like most commodities, is not priced as a single data point like a stock. Instead, commodities, like oil, trade via futures contracts. A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a particular commodity or security at a predetermined price at a specified time in the future. Futures contracts are standardized for…