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Elon Musk’s $44 billion tumultuous Twitter acquisition seems more shaky by the day, particularly as the issue around spam and bots remains unresolved. The Washington Post reported on July 7 that the deal was “in serious jeopardy.” By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy See: 9 Bills You Should Never Put on Autopay Find: Here’s How Much Cash You Need Stashed If a National Emergency Happens Following the report, shares of Twitter were down 4....

Population growth is slowing — over the last decade, the population growth rate was the slowest since the Great Depression, according to the latest U.S. Census data. And while this will have repercussions on a number of facets of society, you may not be thinking about the impact this slowed growth will have on the economy as a whole, and on a more granular level, your investments. By Gabrielle Olya Read More: 13 Toxic Investments You Should AvoidFind Out: 4 Investing Lessons the Pandemic Has Taught Us...

Gen Zers who are just now starting their first jobs might be sorely disappointed when they get their first paychecks. If they didn’t know that some of their income gets siphoned off before their check is even printed, they might have expected to receive that pay period’s fraction of their agreed-upon wage. Unfortunately for them, several different hands dip into the cookie jar before they get to go home with what’s left of their check....

This year has ushered in a boatload of buzzwords, including “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing.” Now, there’s a new work-related piece of jargon trending: productivity paranoia. By Nicole Spector See Our List: 100 Most Influential Money ExpertsRead More: This Credit Score Mistake Could Be Costing Millions of Americans Coined in a new Microsoft report on workplace trends, productivity paranoia refers to a boss’s obsessive suspicion that their employees are not working as efficiently as they should be because they are working out of the office, where managers can’t observe them in person....

Spider-Man broke the internet last week. Or, more accurately, advance ticket sales for the upcoming Sony Pictures, Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures collaboration, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” crashed both the AMC and Fandango websites, Quartz reported. By Dawn Allcot See: Most Successful Action Movies in the Past 10 YearsFind: Comic Books Through the Years — Is the Industry Dying or Thriving, and Where Should You Invest? Sony and AMC Theatres collaborated in a marketing promotion offering non-fungible tokens to the first 86,000 people who purchased advance tickets and were members of AMC’s Premiere, A-List or Investor Connect programs....

The 2700-page text of the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, unveiled last Sunday by a bipartisan group of senators includes $110 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects; $11 billion in transportation safety programs, $39 billion in transit modernization and improved accessibility and $66 billion in rail investment. But the new bill also includes lesser-known programs: from street safety to wildfires and battery manufacturing to transit stations and the Americans with Disabilities Act, all of which the White House outlined in a fact sheet this week....

If you’ve declared bankruptcy recently, you may not know what your next steps are. Bankruptcy itself can be a long and drawn-out process, and might leave you feeling fatigued. Nevertheless, you must press on, and following these steps will help you begin the rebuilding process after bankruptcy. By Bob Haegele Budgeting 101: How To Create a Budget You Can Live WithAlso See: The 8-Step Plan To Achieving Financial Freedom After all, bankruptcy is not the end; think of it as a fresh start....

Social Security is likely one of the last things on your mind if you’re going through a divorce. But divorce can actually have significant ramifications on how much of a Social Security benefit you’ll receive once you reach retirement age. In some cases, you may receive an even bigger benefit than you expected, but in others, you might not get anything at all. Here’s a look at how divorce and Social Security are intertwined and how you can best plan ahead to make sure you receive the maximum amount of benefits possible....

On the heels of President Joe Biden officially extending the student loan payment moratorium until August 31 — claiming it “will help Americans breathe a little easier as we recover and rebuild a little from the pandemic — it seems he is also returning hundreds of thousands of disabled borrowers behind on loan payments to good standing. By David Nadelle Learn: 50 Ways You’re Throwing Money AwayPOLL: Do You Think Student Loan Debt Should Be Forgiven?...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said in 2018 that he planned to take the EV business private, maintained in a Feb. 1 court filing that his tweet was “entirely truthful” and that investors who claim the missive was fraudulent are wrong, Bloomberg reports. By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy See: Elon Musk: Tesla Bot Optimus is The Year’s ‘Most Important Product Development’ Find: 25 Secrets Elon Musk and Every Other Rich Person Knows...

By Dawn Allcot See: 7 Fastest Ways To Save $20K, According To ExpertsMillennials vs. Gen X: Who Spends More Time Working and Who Spends More Time Spending? Only 23 states currently require students to have any instruction in personal finance before graduating. What’s worse, in the two years since the Survey of the States was published by the Council for Economic Education, only two states added a personal finance course requirement for graduation....

As was widely expected, the Federal Reserve said it will raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point rate, in a back-to-back move, following last month’s historic raise. The new unanimous decision comes amid inflation at a 41-year high and fears of a looming recession. By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy See: 77% of Small-Business Owners Are Worried About Inflation — Here’s How They’re CopingFind: Yellen Says Economy ‘Not in a Recession’ Ahead of Fed Meeting, Big Economic Indicators...

Cryptos are inching their way into mainstream investing, and the next frontier is retirement plans. While advisors remain cautious on digital assets, it seems that they may be shifting to embracing them due to client demand, according to a new survey. By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy Take Out Poll: Should Teens Save for College or Retirement? Take Our PollComparing Investments: Real Estate vs. Crypto vs. Gold The Trends in Investing survey by the Financial Planning Association found that 14% of advisors currently use or recommend cryptocurrencies with their clients — up from less than 1% in 2020....

Hotel room service is one of the most luxurious parts of a vacation. Ordering some champagne and a steak straight to your bed is pretty sweet. But that experience was getting harder and harder to find even before the pandemic started. Only a quarter of hotels were offering room service in 2016. Hotels report that providing room service is almost always a loss for them. It explains why after COVID-19 especially, room service has dwindled significantly....

Mortgage rates can change daily, and a rate lock protects your interest rate from rising before closing — as long as it’s within the specified time frame and there are no changes made to your application. By Josephine Nesbit Discover: 7 Financial Habits That Improve Your Daily Life More: The Minimum Salary You Need To Be Happy in Every State When you apply for a mortgage, the preapproval process can take anywhere from one to three business days, according to American Family Insurance....

Among the least surprising trends to emerge from last week’s release of United States Census Bureau data was that the fastest-growing cities over the past decade were all concentrated in the South and West. By Vance Cariaga See: Don’t Overlook These Hidden Gem Cities With a High Quality of LifeFind: The Cost to Own a 3-Bedroom Home in Every State That’s been the trend for a long time, and it shows no signs of abating....

By Sam DiSalvo Here’s what you lose when you don’t start investing. Check Out: 20 Genius Things Mark Cuban Says To Do With Your MoneyFind Out: 25 Things To Sell When You’re Ready To Retire Your Quality of Life in Retirement Suffers Pension plans are less and less common as an employee benefit, and social security usually isn’t enough money to sustain life in retirement. Investing can be started really easily, and it ensures you’ll have money to live off when you retire....

By Andrew Lisa Find Out: Which Athletes Earn the Most Per Hour? Ouch: Injuries Cost These 13 Athletes a Fortune Megan Rapinoe Net Worth: $3 Million If you’re a girl or a woman who wants to be rich like soccer great Megan Rapinoe, all you have to do is be so good that they have to pay you what you’re worth. Starting with Mia Hamm in the earliest days in the Women’s World Cup, soccer was one of the only sports in America where women were more famous and more celebrated than their male counterparts....

Brad Pitt, 58, is an American actor, producer, and philanthropist. He is arguably one of the most famous people in the world, and his wealth reflects that. Pitt tends to make at least $20 million per picture and has an estimated net worth of $300 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. His next film, “Bullet Train” — co-starring fellow big screen legend Sandra Bullock — will be released Aug. 5....

Zendaya (also known as Zendaya Coleman) has amassed an estimated net worth of $20 million, per CelebrityNetWorth. Keep reading to find out where her wealth comes from. By Dawn Allcot Zelle Facebook Marketplace Scam: How To Recognize and Avoid This ScamRead Next: Will Student Loan Forgiveness Include Parent Plus Loans? An actress, musician, dancer, producer and entrepreneur, Zendaya got her start on the Disney Channel playing Rocky Blue on “Shake It Up” for three years, and then portraying the title character of K....