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Illegal For 79 Years, This Loophole Lets Regular Americans Invest Alongside Silicon Valley Insiders

For 79 years, if you wanted the right to invest in early-stage companies like Apple in the 1970s, Facebook in 2004, or Airbnb in 2009, you had to be an “accredited investor.”

Mark Cuban Aims To Disrupt A $365 Billion Industry – With The Only Startup That Bears His Name

Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban has founded or invested early in hundreds of startup companies over the years. But only one of them, founded in January 2022, bears his name.

How a Janitor Built an $8 Million Fortune Without Touching Cryptos, Stock Options or Leverage

Ronald Reid was the last person you would expect to be a millionaire. He used safety pins to hold his old coats together and cut his own firewood well into his 90s. He drove a second-hand Toyota Yaris and resisted new purchases.

Why Warren Buffett's 1999 Warning Still Applies Today

Warren Buffett arrived in Sun Valley, Idaho, with an unpopular warning — one the visionaries in the room were in no mood to hear. The tech leaders gathered there were bent on changing the world and had already made fortunes doing it.

You'll Never Guess the Top-Performing Stock of the Last 20 Years

If a time machine could take you back to the start of the 2000s — without the desire to open up a crypto wallet — what’s the No. 1 investment you would make? Maybe Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which has sold 1.3 billion iPhones since 2007 and reported a $19.4 billion profit last quarter?

California Plans To Ban Gas-Powered Lawn Mowers — This Startup Wants To Replace Them All

In August, California passed a law to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Now it’s taking aim at millions of lawn mowers in the Golden State.

What George Soros Just Did for Electric Vehicle Stocks

Possibly no investing legend is more polarizing than financier George Soros. Anyone who donates millions of dollars to further political agendas around the world is going to be controversial.

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya Predicts New Law Showering Billions On Clean Energy To Create World's First Trillionaire

Chances are, you saw headlines previously about Congress needing a 15th round of voting to elect Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

Billionaire Charlie Munger Reveals Why Berkshire Hathaway has an $88 Billion Pile of Cash

The S&P 500 dipped by 19% in 2022, but stocks still don’t seem cheap to Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s billionaire partner at Berkshire Hathaway. “In my whole adult life, I have never hoarded cash, waiting for better conditions,” Munger said in an interview in late 2022. “I’ve just invested in the best thing I could find.”

Pennsylvania Farmer Behind $5 Trillion Trend Speaks Out: I Created A Monster

Add up the market valuation of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), all the cryptos in the world and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s fortune, and you get to over $3 trillion. But one 80-year-old man has created something bigger than all three of these combined.

12 Years Ago, a Little-Known Catalyst Created Tesla as We Know It. What's Hitting Markets Now Is 4x Bigger

In late 2008, markets were in freefall as the global financial system was on life support. Lawmakers were debating spending trillions of dollars to stave off total collapse. At the time, one unknown 38-year-old CEO pleaded for assistance in bringing one of his cheaper electric sedans to market.

Biden Administration Paying Americans Thousands of Dollars to Embrace EV's and Solar Homes

On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, directing billions of dollars to Americans looking to upgrade their homes, businesses and cars. One provision of the law allows Americans making less than $150,000 a year to claim a $7,500 tax credit for buying an electric car.

Will The First Trillionaire Come From AI Or Clean Energy? Two Billionaires Make Opposite Bets

Microsoft Corp. Co-Founder Bill Gates became a billionaire in 1987 at age 31. He was the youngest self-made billionaire until Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg became one at age 23.

How a Janitor Built an $8 Million Fortune Without Touching Cryptos, Stock Options or Leverage

Ronald Reid was the last person you would expect to be a millionaire. He used safety pins to hold his old coats together and cut his own firewood well into his 90s. He drove a second-hand Toyota Yaris and resisted new purchases.

California Plans To Ban Gas-Powered Lawn Mowers — This Startup Wants To Replace Them All

In August, California passed a law to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035. Now it’s taking aim at millions of lawn mowers in the Golden State.

Bill Gates Labeled 'Hypocrite' for Flying Around the World in Private Jet While Preaching Climate Change

Microsoft Corp. Founder Bill Gates fielded charges of hypocrisy in a BBC interview after a broadcaster asked how he squared his extensive and carbon-heavy use of private jets to travel with his dire warnings of climate change.

Pennsylvania Farmer Behind $5 Trillion Trend Speaks Out: I Created A Monster

Add up the market valuation of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), all the cryptos in the world and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos’s fortune, and you get to over $3 trillion. But one 80-year-old man has created something bigger than all three of these combined.

Illegal for 79 Years, This Loophole Lets Regular Americans Invest Alongside Silicon Valley Insiders

For 79 years, if you wanted the right to invest in early-stage companies like Apple in the 1970s, Facebook in 2004, or Airbnb in 2009, you had to be an “accredited investor.”

Trillion-Dollar Titans: Who Will Win The AI Battle?

The success of the artificial intelligence (AI) search engine ChatGPT, which recently reached 100 million users, led Google’s management to officially declare “code red” in December.

ChatGPT's 100 Millionth User Means the Age of AI Is Here

ChatGPT signed up its 100 millionth user recently, a milestone reached just 64 days after its Nov. 30 launch. It took Facebook 4½ years to reach 100 million users. Instagram took 2½ years after its 2010 launch, and Twitter took five years to hit the 100 million milestone.