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Estate planning sometimes addresses the special needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, or those who have family members in the LGBTQ+ community. Statistics demonstrate the reality that the number of people undertaking estate planning for whom LGBTQ+ considerations should be incorporated is growing. This article will provide an overview of some of the many planning and document considerations. This will include an explanation of a novel technique that may prove helpful for some LGBTQ+ people, especially given some of the changing tides in attitudes and law. There are risks that federal policies that prohibit discrimination on…

Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for freeThe stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White HouseDonald Trump’s sentencing hearing in the Manhattan “hush money” case has been pushed back to September 18, as he seeks to set aside the guilty verdict following a US Supreme Court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for their official acts. The presumptive Republican nominee, who became the first former president to be convicted of a crime when found guilty on 34 felony counts in May, was originally set to be sentenced on July 11, just days…

Article Thesis Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) has a strong brand and a successful track record. Recently, its shares got under pressure due to some current growth worries, but as consumer sentiment will improve eventually, so should Starbucks’ results. Past Coverage I have covered Starbucks Corporation in the past here on Seeking Alpha, most recently in June 2022. In that article, I argued that it had some advantages compared to its peers Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS), although I noted that Dutch Bros offered a better relative growth performance. With two years having passed since that article has been published, it’s time for…

Student loan debt is a hot topic this election season. As the battle for and against debt forgiveness rages on, many borrowers are being vocal about their opinions on forgiveness. Less than a third of the American public currently approves of how student loan debt is being handled by the Biden Administration, a poll from the University of Chicago showed.  Many adults do believe forgiveness is necessary in certain circumstances, however. In those instances, borrowers along all party lines support the Biden Administration’s efforts to reduce student loan debt.”In recent years, more than a million borrowers who were defrauded by…

Our goal here at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, referred to as “Credible” below, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we do promote products from our partner lenders who compensate us for our services, all opinions are our own. The interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is 7.125% as of May 30, which is 0.135 percentage points higher than yesterday. Additionally, the interest rate on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage is 6.375%, which is 0.250 percentage points higher than yesterday.  With mortgage rates changing daily, it’s a good idea to…

It takes a lot of money to be financially secure in old age. Federal Reserve data suggests that to be financially secure in retirement, people will likely need more than $500,000 in savings. In assessing how retirees are faring, it is important to go beyond simply asking people how they are feeling about their situation and look at objective measures of well-being. The Fed’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking is designed to capture various aspects of people’s financial security. The SHED asks people how they feel about their financial situation and large numbers of retirees report they are either…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Boeing must either plead guilty to felony fraud or go to trial against the US government as the next step in a criminal case stemming from its door panel blowout, according to the latest terms offered to the company by the Department of Justice. Under the potential plea agreement, the airline would plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to defraud the US and pay a fine of $243.6mn, the second criminal penalty of this size in the case, according to someone familiar…

Why You Should Keep ASP Isotopes On Your Watchlist ASP Isotopes Inc. (NASDAQ:ASPI) with a life history of fewer than three years, is a specialty materials company, that is seeking to build clout in the terrain of Isotopes, where the supply chain is inherently quite fragile, and provides budding players, the opportunity to make a mark. For the uninitiated, Isotopes are atoms of the same chemical elements that have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons; for instance, take carbon which has three naturally occurring isotopes- Carbon-12, Carbon-13, and Carbon-14. All three of these isotopes will have…

A federal judge said Friday that card issuers Visa and Mastercard could likely withstand a “substantially greater” settlement with merchants who argued they overpaid swipe fees than the proposed $30 billion settlement she rejected last week. U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie of the Eastern District of New York provided that assessment in an 88-page opinion she released Friday, just three days after she rejected the preliminary $30 billion settlement.The agreement would have lowered and capped swipe fees, also known as interchange fees, that are paid by over 12 million merchants to handle Visa and Mastercard transactions. The judge called the…

Home prices continued to increase in March, reaching a new high despite homebuyers shying away from housing, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index report. Home prices are now 6.5% above their level last year, on par with the increase registered in February. The 10-city composite increased 8.2% annually from 8.1% the previous month. At the same time, the 20-city composite posted a rise of 7.4%, up from 7.3% the previous month. The indices measure home prices in major metros across the country.Across the nation, home prices increased 0.3% month-over-month, slowing down from the 0.6% growth…