Dear Quentin, I don’t know where to start. So I will start at the beginning. I met a man at a friend’s wedding a few years ago. He was charming in that British-man-in-America sort of way (Hugh Grant has a lot to answer for), he told jokes (perhaps too many …
Read More »The Moneyist: I’m 41. My fiancé is 61. I’m worth $1.3M. He’s worth $250K. He won’t marry if I insist on a prenup. How can I protect my assets?
Dear Moneyist, I am 41 and my fiancé is 61. I am worth $ 1.3 million. I have 1.1M cash in my business, and $ 200,000 on my house equity and personal checking. My career is booming. In 2015, I made $ 70,000, and so far this year I have …
Read More »The Number One: He’s outperformed all other hedge funds so far this year, but now he’s got most of his portfolio in cash
Chinese education stocks have paid off big for QQQ Capital. Getty Images Just a few years ago, Qian Yongqiang was running his own money. Now, after riding a wave of big wins in the stock market, his explosive hedge-fund finds itself on the top of the world and sitting on …
Read More »As Trump says he’s abandoned stimulus talks, renters and landlords face a financial cliff
President Donald Trump has quashed hopes for a new federal stimulus package before the presidential election in November. And that could leave America’s renters and landlords in a lurch. On Twitter TWTR, +0.26% Tuesday afternoon, Trump initially said that he had instructed his team to stop negotiating with Democrats until …
Read More »Key Words: Elon Musk still doesn’t know whether he’s voting for Trump or Biden, but he might by Tuesday night
MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images|iStockphoto Elon Musk, who’s got your vote in November? “ ‘Let’s just see how the debates go… I think that’s going to be the thing that decides things for America.’ ” That’s his cagey answer when Kara Swisher posed the question in Monday’s episode of her “Sway” …
Read More »Key Words: Bryan Cranston reveals he’s recovering from coronavirus: ‘Keep wearing the damn mask’
He is the one who masks. Bryan Cranston has revealed that he contracted COVID-19 “a little while ago” — and he wants everyone to mask up and practice social distancing. The decorated Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor perhaps best known for playing chemistry teacher turned meth dealer Walter White on …
Read More »The Tell: Investor turns $100,000 into $2.2 million — now he’s banking on a cruise line to reach his early retirement goals
The buy-and-hold approach to the stock market generally isn’t a celebrated strategy among Reddit’s “Wall Street Bets” bunch, but more than a few glasses are being raised for one member of the meme-making trading community who claims to have made an absolute killing in recent years. IKnowTheCodings, as he goes …
Read More »Key Words: Tennessee man sitting on almost 18,000 bottles of hand sanitizer says he’s doing ‘a public service’
These pandemic profiteers have become internet pariahs. Brothers Matt and Noah Calvin admit in a New York Times interview that they bought up all of the hand sanitizer and antibacterial wipes that they could find across Tennessee and Kentucky after the first U.S. coronavirus death was reported on March 1, …
Read More »The Moneyist: ‘My father has lived a life of crime and drugs. He threw away every opportunity we gave him.’ Now that he’s on disability, doesn’t he owe his kids something?
Dear Moneyist, For most of his life, my father has lived a life of crime and drugs. He threw away every opportunity we gave him, financial or otherwise. He was never really around besides the odd note written on yellow legal paper that I would get from time to time, …
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