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When Amazon tried to charge my business account $288.56 last month, the payment didn’t go through. Instead, I got an “insufficient funds” notification on my phone.Turns out, it’s expensive to let inventory — especially “aged inventory” — sit in an Amazon warehouse.The “aged inventory surcharge” quite literally bled my business…
Owning rental property comes with significant tax advantages. So significant that, when used strategically, they can help investors scale solely through tax savings.Jill Green, a full-time physician who invests in real estate with her husband on the side, has used tax savings to grow her portfolio by roughly one property…
Starbucks’ comeback is gaining momentum, with the company posting its first comparable transaction growth in the US in eight quarters on Wednesday — but reversing slumping sales was just phase one.Now, leadership says it’s time to begin a new chapter.Ahead of Thursday’s Investor Day presentation, in which the company outlined its…
Elon Musk might have just walked straight into a trap.Ryanair’s marketing team and CEO Michael O’Leary have spent years courting controversy as a promotional strategy. Provoking the world’s richest person might win them the most attention yet.What started as a critique of Musk’s Starlink has proliferated into a weeklong war…
General Motors has warned investors that its electric-vehicle strategy is proving costly — and that the pain is not yet over.The Detroit automaker said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that it will record about $6 billion in fourth-quarter charges tied to scaling back EV plans in the US, with…
If your New Year’s resolution is to land a job, you’re up against daunting odds. When you apply to the average white-collar job right now, as I recently reported, you have a 0.4% chance of actually landing it.So what’s a smart job seeker actually to do in this apocalyptic market?…
