These are the ten smartest cities in the world, according to IMD. Anton Aleksenko | Istock | Getty Images Smart cities in Europe and Asia are gaining ground globally while North American cities have fallen down the ranks, according to the 2024 Smart City Index released April. Of the top […]
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Here’s where the world’s top 0.001% are putting their money, according to wealth experts
Yana Iskayeva | Moment | Getty Images The uber wealthy live a world apart and their investing strategies also look vastly different from the average investor’s portfolio. “While there is no official threshold, centimillionaires or individuals with a total net worth of over $100 million, is a good benchmark as […]
AirPods, Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton bags: A company selling lost luggage items attracts worldwide fans
Live snakes, a mounted ram head, a Halloween card signed by Richard Nixon. Those are some of the most fascinating items found in lost luggage in 2023, according to a new report by Unclaimed Baggage, a store that buys lost items from airlines, sight unseen. The company also found a […]
Trump wins voters on inflation as Biden zeroes in on tariffs, jobs: NBC News poll
Joe Biden and Donald Trump 2024. Brendan Smialowski | Jon Cherry | Getty Images More voters trust Donald Trump than President Joe Biden to deal with inflation and the cost of living, their top concerns for the U.S., according to the latest NBC News poll. The poll of 1,000 registered voters […]
Bitcoin miners upgrade power centers and get into AI to brace for slashed revenue post halving
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Adam Sullivan left investment banking to mine bitcoin at an awkward time. It was May 2023, bitcoin was trading at around $21,000, U.S. regulators were in the thick of cracking down on the sector writ large, and Core Scientific, the company he had agreed to take over, […]
Harvard professor who teaches a class on happiness: The happiest people balance and prioritize 3 things
Social scientist Arthur C. Brooks, who teaches a happiness course at Harvard University, has been searching for the answers about what it means to be happy for decades, and he’s arrived at some specific conclusions. In Brooks’ recent book with Oprah Winfrey, the pair explain that your goal in life […]
Nowhere for the water to go: Dubai flooding shows the world is failing a big climate change drainage test
Traffic diverts away from a flooded street in Sharjah on April 20, 2024, after the heaviest rainfall on record in the UAE. Ahmed Ramzan | Afp | Getty Images The Dubai flooding last week illustrated how urban engineering is failing a major climate change test. In a world marked by […]
Bitcoin miners brace for impact as halving goes live
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Adam Sullivan left investment banking to mine bitcoin at an awkward time. It was May 2023, bitcoin was trading at around $21,000, U.S. regulators were in the thick of cracking down on the sector writ large, and Core Scientific, the company he had agreed to take over, […]
Cramer: The ‘proximate cause’ of Super Micro’s 23% drop Friday? Go back to March 8
At law school, we learned about “proximate cause,” one of the few valuable concepts you can take from three years of drudgery. It’s about who and what caused the injury and who pays for it. The current stock market lends itself to proximate causes, as in, “We have to find […]
Top 10 U.S. cities for eco-conscious living—they’re almost all on the West Coast
In honor of Earth Month, realtyhop ranked the greenest U.S. cities for homebuyers. The report evaluated each city based on the following criteria: Sustainability Policy and infrastructure Energy Environment Affordability Overall, the study found that the majority of the greenest cities are on the West Coast — five are in […]