Kmart Nears Extinction: What Does This Say About Retail?
Published on 04/12/2022Many of the shelves are bare at the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, picked over by bargain hunters as the store prepares to close its doors for good April 16. Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. — once well over 2,000 — will be down to three in the continental U.S. and a handful of stores elsewhere, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon.
The Arbitrage Life: 100-Year-Old Park Ranger Hangs Up Her Hat
Published on 04/09/2022The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
The Thing You Should Do Before Investing: Budgeting
Published on 04/08/2022Most millennials feel comfortable creating personal budgets, according to a survey of over 500 Americans. While the millennial generation faces hardship with an uncertain job market and economy, they’re finding solutions through budgeting tips and tricks.
The Arbitrage Life: Apparently the Covid Vaccine is REALLY Safe
Published on 04/07/2022A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.
New Cell, Who Dis?
Published on 04/06/2022A newly discovered cell could be used to help COPD in the same way that stem-cell therapy is used to regenerate nerve cells and tissues.
Taking That Next Step
Published on 04/05/2022Your financial to-do list is small but mighty in your 20s. Setting up automatic transfers to a high-yield savings account, contributing enough to your 401(k) to get the full employer match and paying down high-interest debt can take you quite far. Now, you can do more to propel yourself to financial success in your 40s and beyond.
Elon Just Bought a Ton of Tweets
Published on 04/04/2022Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder, just before raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech and the First Amendment.
The Arbitrage Life: We still use Telegrams?!
Published on 04/01/2022The world still sends millions of telegrams every single year. That raises a few questions why such an old and outdated technology has managed to stick around while so many others like pagers dial-up modems and the iPhone 12 have all but disappeared.
The other other other diversification: Trading Cards
Published on 03/31/2022As we discussed last week, there’s a resurgence in collectibles investing, but if you’re nerds like us you’ve known this for years. From when I picked up my first pack of Donruss ’84 Baseball cards to when I bought my first Magic: The Gathering decks in 1994, trading cards have been in and out of my life for years.
Waymo Branching Out
Published on 03/30/2022Waymo’s self-driving ride-hailing service is branching out to San Francisco.
Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite
Published on 03/30/2022Things have been so hectic recently between the sociopolitical, international, and entertainment news that it has been hard to focus on the little things. For example, did you realize we’ve had our first day of spring? That’s right, it was March 20, 2022. You know what that means? Warmer temperatures and bugs!
EU Reining in Big Tech
Published on 03/29/2022The European Union set the stage for a stepped-up crackdown on big tech companies with an agreement on landmark digital rules to rein in online “gatekeepers” such as Google and Facebook parent Meta.