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This restaurant chain offers the worst bang for your buck, customers say — and it’s not even the most expensive
When it comes to dining out, customers say Shake Shack SHAK, +0.55% has gotten far too pricey for what it’s dishing out. And that’s despite the fact that it’s even not the most expensive of the fast-casual and fast-food restaurant chains. That’s the big takeaway from a study by Stifel SF, +0.82%, the wealth-management and…
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My single, 80-year-old mother is thinking of selling her Berkeley house to get some cash. How can she avoid capital gains tax?
My mother is 80, unmarried, and owns two homes on one lot in Berkeley, Calif. The property consists of one single-family home and one cottage. She lives in one and rents the other. She has never really worked and has no savings. She rents one of the houses and lives in the other, getting by…
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Robert Shiller: Home prices are ‘very, very high,’ but might get cheaper in six months
“‘Home prices are very, very high by historical standards’” That was Yale economist Robert Shiller talking about the current state of the housing market during a March interview on on CNBC Overtime. Shiller, a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research, helped create the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, which are leading trackers of the U.S.…
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Your tax return can tell you a lot about how to manage your investments
After last year’s disruptive tax season full of temporary Covid-19 rule changes and other complications, the 2022 filing season is almost sleepy in comparison, especially for investors. “Activity is minimal – just a small amount of dividends and very few trades. Last year, everyone decided they wanted to be traders, but this year, people didn’t…
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Justice Clarence Thomas controversy explained: what he’s accused of doing, and why it raises ethical concerns
A bombshell report this week alleged that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accepting lavish gifts from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow for decades without disclosing them, such as trips on Crow’s superyacht and private plane. Some Americans are wondering whether Thomas, 74, could lose his spot on the Supreme Court over not disclosing these…
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Main street investors plan to keep pressure on Gensler as Citadel Securities fights auction reform
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is embarking on its most ambitious program of market-structure reform in a generation in the wake of the meme-stock saga that focused the public’s attention on stock-market plumbing like never before. The financial rule making process is typically dominated by insiders with the knowledge and resources to keep up…
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4 things could shield stocks as Goldman warns of worst earnings season since pandemic
The outlook for corporate profits during the first quarter is looking pretty gloomy. But a team of analysts at Goldman Sachs Group see hope for individual companies that could manage to buck the trend by delivering on four areas of critical importance to investors. Analysts cut their outlook pretty aggressively as the economic outlook deteriorated…
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Is climate change changing baseball? Hotter air means hotter MLB home-run hitters, study says.
Should we save a spot in the baseball annals for the “climate-ball” era? Climate change and its impact on home-run-favorable thinner air may earn a place in recorded history alongside Major League Baseball’s dead-ball era and the notorious black eye on America’s pastime when steroids juiced the power game. The way that climate change heats…