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The Biden administration's budget proposal issued Friday proposes a top capital gains tax rate for millionaires — a reduction from the initial 39.6%.

Guest Post | May 28, 2021 Digital literacy is an umbrella term that defines a large number of different skills that a modern entrepreneur should have. Since computers get deeply integrated into our lives, all people have to know how to use them. Being familiar with computers doesn't mean creating documents and printing them with

Women entrepreneurs could add more than $280 billion to Southeast Asia's e-commerce market by 2030, according to a new report from the IFC.

Acorns will merge with with Pioneer Merger Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC.

New cars, airfares and building supplies are suddenly more expensive. If you are planning one of these purchases, it may pay to wait until prices come down.

Aljazeera via Bloomberg | May 26, 2021 Spike in power use from server farms servicing Bitcoin led to illicit coal mining, endangering lives & climate goals. China’s escalating push to rein in cryptocurrency mining was triggered in part by concern that the practice has stoked a surge in illicit coal extraction, endangering lives and undermining

The new initiative is intended to help an estimated 2 million homeowners refinance their mortgage at a lower interest rate.

While more than 4 million new businesses were formed during the pandemic, a new survey finds that half may not survive more than a year.

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Amid a boom in special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, the Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing new protections against the investment vehicles.

The Toronto Star | Josh Rubin | May 25, 2021 The Ontario Securities Commission fired a warning shot Tuesday across the bow of unlicensed exchanges selling cryptocurrency to Canadians, charging one of the largest with breaching Ontario securities regulations. Poloniex, a Seychelles-based crypto exchange once owned by Goldman Sachs-backed start-up Circle, broke securities regulations by

The bosses of the nation's largest banks return to Capitol Hill, where they will face another round of grilling from lawmakers.

"Once the money comes in, the emotions take over," said Tania Brown, a certified financial planner at SaverLife. "Have a plan of action."

Wealthy families may have to dig through decades of documents to figure out the taxes on an inheritance if this Biden proposal becomes a reality.

The IRS tried to claw back $1,200 stimulus checks sent to deceased individuals. About 60,000 of those payments totaling $72 million were returned voluntarily.