finance

Most have us have been wanting to discuss more serious topics in The Salon so I decided to make a finance thread. We can talk about anything pertaining to money and give advice and share our stories. I don’t know if any of you read Refinery29 but they’ve been doing a series called Money Diaries...

Regulators approve living wills designed to avert future bailouts The biggest US banks got another boost from Washington on Tuesday when watchdogs gave them passing grades on a test designed to prevent the kind of meltdown triggered by the failure of Lehman Brothers. The Federal Reserve and...

Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, speaks during an event in Manchester, N.H., Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Former White House strategist Steve Bannon told a group of black South Carolina business leaders Friday that he understands the...

Michael Irvin had a successful NFL career that included three Super Bowl wins. However, Irvin says the happiest he ever was playing football was at the University of Miami because he didn't have to support anybody. To this day, Irvin says he still has family members who ask him for money and now...

Not since the time of the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts at the turn of the 20th century was so much owned by so few. A gold Ferrari parked in Sloane Street in London, UK. Billionaires often spend on extravagant super cars and yachts The world’s super-rich hold the greatest...

Uber introduces a credit card by Jonathan Shieber (@jshieber) Uber is getting into the credit card business. Announced today in partnership with Barclays and Visa at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas, the new card gives Uber yet another point of access to incredibly valuable customer...

Study predicts huge and growing gulf between white US households and everyone else could be disastrous for future of America’s middle class. I dare not pass this knowledge down to my kids’: Mysia Hamilton with her five sons. Photograph courtesy Mysia Hamilton Growing up in the projects of...

"There’s nobody who knows how much we spend. You’re the only person I ever said those numbers to out loud.” By RACHEL SHERMAN SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 Over lunch in a downtown restaurant, Beatrice, a New Yorker in her late 30s, told me about two decisions she and her husband were considering. They...

It's said that the streaming industry is only at 3% penetration level and artists are already getting paid nicely and getting gold & platinum plaques again like it's 2003:lupe: So, when it gets to 70-80% and it gets monetized even more, can you imagine the influx of new bread coming in the rap...

I found this helpful and wanted to share. Also for those who want to learn how to develop a chatbot, here is an open source project in git This is a write-up covering the development of my startup, Teller, and the launch of our first pilot program with Brooklyn Cooperative. Although I don’t...

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Based off this thread: Things the Coli needs to leave in 2016..... What are some things you'd like to see more of moving into next year? 1. More business/finance threads: saw a few more popping up lately and hopefully that trend continues and possibly leads to a dedicated section. 2. Black...

:patrice: I've wondered why there isn't a dedicated section for that on this forum already. A lot of places have one. Even LSA (don't ask me how I know :dame:) Seriously though, would be nice to have a place to have discussions and exchange ideas on credit repair, entrepreneurship, home...

This thread is buppie approved. :jawalrus: Brehettes always represent in corporate. My mom related to Ms. Cooper's experience when she was a Senior Manager. Why Goldman Sachs is encouraging employees to talk about race at work – and why as a black woman I think this is so important Edith...

Apologies if this is a repost. Explained on an 8th grade level so that most can understand. Goes in on Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Love how he breaks down the connection of Germanic blood in Western Europe around the 12:00 mark. One of the full lectures.

Goldman Sachs opens to the masses For almost 150 years Goldman Sachs has been the go-to bank of the rich and powerful. But now the Wall Street titan is opening up to the masses on Main Street by offering online savings accounts for as little as $1 on deposit. Goldman’s shift down market comes...

Im going to be coming into a nice lump sum of money soon and have decided that i am either going to start a business or use the funds to get out of debt. :ehh: Opinions welcome, and poll added