laflor | E+ | Getty Images After experiencing a year that I am sure we would all like to forget, there are definitely some financial lessons learned from 2020 that we should use in our day to day lives going forward. The most significant thing about experiencing events that are statistically very rare, such as
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Although investor Kevin O’Leary says bitcoin is a “giant nothing-burger” and has compared it to gambling, he owns some, along with a few other cryptocurrencies. “I have a crypto wallet,” says O’Leary, which he created on Coinbase in 2017. At the time, “I was lecturing at Harvard Business School, and the students challenged me to
Instability in financial markets and personal finances over the course of 2020 may have significantly altered our relationship with money, according to new research, which suggests people have more faith in robots than humans to manage their cash. Over three-quarters (76%) of consumers in Asia-Pacific said they would now trust a robot more than a
Self-made billionaire Mark Cuban, investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, often attributes his success to his commitment to life-long learning. But “the most underrated thing” about Cuban is a skill he honed working at a bar in college, Cuban’s former statistics professor at Indiana University, Wayne Winston, reportedly told podcast
In October 2011, I moved to New York to pursue my dream of becoming a writer. I’d graduated from Boston University in 2008 with $85,000 in student loan debt. Although I’d made some payments, by the time I moved I was closer to $90,000 in the hole due to mounting interest. I juggled multiple jobs