Wealth

Glittering pine trees, Santa Claus and stockings are part of many people’s ideas of Christmas, but the holiday can look vastly different around the globe. From Europe to Asia to the depths of Antarctica, here’s how Christmas is celebrated in nine places around the world — and one place orbiting around the world. Croatia Christmas

In 2008, Deacon Hayes and his wife, Kim, “were newly married” and “living paycheck to paycheck” in Phoenix, Arizona, he says. She was a teacher and he was selling wood floors, and, “between credit card debt, student loans, and car loans, we had about $52,000 in consumer debt,” he says. More from Grow:How I paid

Tesla founder Elon Musk speaks at the unveiling event by “The Boring Company” for the test tunnel of a proposed underground transportation network across Los Angeles County, in Hawthorne, California, December 18, 2018. Robyn Beck | Pool | Reuters Responding to political attacks on his wealth and taxes, Elon Musk said his wealth “is not

On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted a TikTok of an interview between Bill Gates and David Letterman in 1995, asking, “Given the almost unimaginable nature of the present, what will the future be?” In the video, Gates describes the internet to Letterman, which was new and strange to most at the time. After showing the clip, the TikTok user who

Flights are booked. Bags are packed. To cancel Christmas travel plans seems unfathomable at this point. But for many, so does the speed at which the omicron variant is spreading. The highly transmissible Covid-19 variant — which was first detected in late November but has since been detected in nearly 90 countries — is causing

The superyacht “Kismet”, currently owned by Pakistani-American billionaire Shahid Khan, is seen moored near Tower Bridge on October 21, 2021 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images More than 1,000 superyachts are now in production or on order, as the global rich seek refuge from Covid-19 and crowds on their nine-figure floating palaces. According

Artist Chris Carnabuci stands before his sculptures of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor (L) featuring painting by Laolu Senbanjo otherwise known as Laolu NYC”, at Sotheby’s auction house in New York on December 9, 2021. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images The Big Three auction houses hit a record $15 billion in sales this

In the centuries-old carol “The 12 Days of Christmas,” celebrations span less than two weeks.   Today Christmas is regularly celebrated throughout December, and in some places, a good portion of November too.  But four months of festivities in the Philippines gives new meaning to the term “holiday season.” The ‘ber’ months Christmas is celebrated

If Mark Cuban could solely invest in one personality trait, it would be confidence. On Friday’s episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank,” the billionaire investor said he rejected one start-up founder’s pitch for that exact reason. The founder, Liv Bowser, launched her Los Angeles-based mental health company Liberate in May 2020. The start-up offers instructor-led Zoom

In this article TSLA Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, stands on the construction site of the Tesla Gigafactory. In Grünheide near Berlin, September 3, 2020. Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty Images Elon Musk faces a hefty tax bill this year — possibly the biggest in U.S. history. “For those wondering, I will pay

Long before it was cool, Ray Dalio credited his financial success to a simple practice: a daily meditation. Twice per day, the 72-year-old billionaire closes his eyes and repeats a short mantra in his head for 20 minutes at a time, he tells CNBC Make It. It’s a practice known as Transcendental Meditation (TM), which

Pedestrians view the holiday windows at the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship department store in New York, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Christopher Occhicone | Bloomberg | Getty Images Despite supply chain disruptions and inflationary issues, retail trade groups and industry watchers are forecasting record levels of sales this holiday season. But a majority of the