The long-awaited verdict is in, with Johnny Depp coming out on top, but neither of them unsullied in the process. The jury found that Heard defamed Depp, and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Depp’s $5 million in punitive damages were cut to $350,000 under the Virginia state
Taxes
In a Monday Wall Street Journal column (paywall), President Biden urged Congress to help fight inflation by raising tax rates on the very wealthy and using the money to reduce the deficit. Does that strategy make sense in today’s economic environment? At least in theory, raising taxes could ease inflation. But not necessarily for the
Market volatility has put a spotlight on the risks of having a significant portion of your net worth concentrated in just one company. A concentrated stock position can easily arise, for example, when you acquire company shares through restricted stock unit (RSU) vesting, stock option exercises, or founders’ stock in a fast-growing startup. While a
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia was a shocker. Two utterly nonestablishment candidates won the top spots and will face each other in a runoff on June 19. The front-runner is a one-time leftist guerrilla who won’t disavow his past and who vows to launch a radical
Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Another day, another record for gasoline prices, which hit an average of $4.715 a gallon in the United States. That’s up 50% in a year and double what they were when President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. At current daily demand of 8.9 million