By Gretchen Brown, Next Avenue Contributor Getty Julie (who prefers to use a pseudonym for this story), 54, wants to get her daughter through college without incurring any student loans for the $30,000 annual tuition. So, she helped fund her daughter’s freshman year by taking out a kind of second mortgage — a home equity
The American Dream complex stands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images The American Dream mall still doesn’t have the essential certificate of occupancy needed to open its doors to the public as planned on Friday, Oct. 25, the news website NJ.com reported this week.
A sign is posted outside of the PayPal headquarters in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images PayPal had a break-out quarter, sending its stock surging after reporting earnings. The payments company beat Wall Street’s estimates across the board for the third-quarter results Wednesday evening. Investors applauded the outperformance, sending PayPal shares up more
Getty Images This year could be one of the best ones ever for investors if the gains in major asset classes hold. Stocks, bonds, gold and crude oil are all up nicely for the year. In fact, this could be the first year ever in which all four asset classes rise at least 10%, according
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is back in Washington this week arguing for libra, the digital currency his company created. This, after he last week made the case in front of an audience at Georgetown University that Facebook’s future, its past and its reason for being are all tied up in free speech. So, what’s at