Wealth

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

More and more people are discovering that not only can they live abroad and be happy, safe and comfortable, but that they can successfully earn an income. That’s exactly what I did when I left the U.S. for Mazatlán, Mexico in 2006. I lived off a steady income from freelance editing jobs and running M!,

Inflation is the number one economic fear among millionaires for the first time in recent history, according to the CNBC Millionaire Survey. When asked about the biggest risk to the U.S. economy, inflation ranked first, alongside government dysfunction, according to the survey of investors with $1 million or more in investible assets. The results marked

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives to attend her fraud trial at federal court in San Jose, California, December 17, 2021. Peter DaSilva | Reuters SAN JOSE, Calif. — The 12 jurors who will decide the fate of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes are left to consider the testimony from 31 witnesses over three months as they

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is impressed with bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market value, and its blockchain. “It has been an amazing accomplishment for bitcoin to have achieved what it has done, from writing that program, not being hacked, having it work and having it adopted the way it has been,” Dalio, founder of the

Digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin. Chesnot | Getty Images Most millennial millionaires have the bulk of their wealth in crypto, and they’re planning to add more in 2022 despite the recent price declines, according to the CNBC Millionaire Survey. Fully 83% of millennial millionaires own cryptocurrencies, according to the survey, which

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through a security checkpoint as she arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on December 16, 2021 in San Jose, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images SAN JOSE, Calif. — In his last effort to persuade the jury that Elizabeth Holmes is guilty of fraud, Assistant