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The Supreme Court is set to review a Biden administration debt relief plan for student loan borrowers. Here's why plaintiffs argue the plan should be struck down.

Consumers flocked to annuities marketed as being "protection-focused" as stocks and bonds faltered and annuity payouts were relatively attractive.

MarketWatch | Dean Seal | Feb 2, 2023 Shares of Coinbase Global Inc. rose 21% to $79.50 after a federal district judge dismissed a proposed class action accusing the crypto exchange of selling tokens that qualified as unregistered securities. The suit, filed in October 2021, alleged that nearly 80 of the digital assets traded on

Tristram Waye for Bitvo | Feb 2, 2023 After a substantial lift in crypto, it begs the question, was that the bottom?  The answer, of course, is no idea.  Because bottoms are not events but rather a process.  After a challenging crypto winter, the relief is welcome, but the question of whether it’s over requires

Fortune via Yahoo Finance | Christiaan Hetzner | Feb 1, 2023 Hypersonic flight, 3D printed humanoid robots, groceries delivered by drones, molecular biomarkers for early detection of malignant tumors Report: That's the conclusion from her annual Big Ideas report published on Tuesday by her money management firm. This 153-page deep dive attempts to handicap the

Accenture | Michael Abbott  | Jan 10, 2023 A combination of well-established forces and recent developments is reshaping banking. Overview: In the absence of that revenue stream, banks shifted their focus from the totality of customers’ financial needs to isolated products that continued to generate fees. At the same time, fintech innovators burst onto the

Roughly 70% of Americans qualify for IRS Free File, but only 2% of taxpayers used it in 2022. Here's what to know to file your federal return for free.

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker | Anjali Das  | Jan 23, 2023 The recent implosion of crypto firm FTX and its affiliates provides a case study for potential crypto exposure under traditional insurance policies in this series of four articles Silent Crypto for D&O and Corporate Liability Insurance (Part I), Silent Crypto Exposure for

Fraud costs Americans billions of dollars each year, and tax season is a time when phone, email and text scams, including IRS agent impersonation, all rise.

Chainanalysis | Feb 1, 2023 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8 billion stolen from cryptocurrency businesses. DeFi protocols by far the biggest victims of cryptocurrency hacks accounting for 82.1% of all cryptocurrency stolen by hackers — a total of $3.1 billion — up from 73.3% in 2021. And of that

Black Americans are nearly three to five times more likely to be audited by IRS, a new study shows. Here's what it means for filers.

The Ark Invest portfolio manager said on "Squawk Box" that Amazon's number of robot workers is set to grow dramatically this decade.

A record 50.5 million people quit their jobs in 2022, breaking the previous high set in 2021 as ample job prospects and high pay lured them elsewhere.

Shares of Adani Enterprise were routed in the aftermath of a report from short-seller Hindenburg Research

Retirement benefits taken at age 70 are 76% higher, adjusted for inflation, than retirement benefits taken at 62, research finds.