Small business owners these days have a lot on their minds - and too much on their plates. Sky-high borrowing costs, corrosive inflation, a slowing economy and tighter credit conditions are keeping them on edge.

Along with your entr...

Memorabilia collections, by their nature, are specialized and unique. When considering your estate planning, it's important to think about what you requi...

Take in the skyline of any major U.S. city and you'll be looking at a fair number of hidden time bombs.

These are the thousands of buildings with ground leases that are getting close to the end of their term, leaving unprepared buil...

The Federal Reserve's unusually sharp interest rate hikes since early last year have cast a cloud over most real estate markets and left investors struggling to find opportunities that beat inflation without incurring substantially more risk. T...

Planning for retirement is a daunting challenge for anyone, but physician-practice owners face some distinct hurdles unmatched by most other careers.

Between medical school, residency, and fellowships, physicians don't realize their f...

Healthcare practitioners are feeling the squeeze.

A constellation of challenges has been making it harder to maintain a thriving, profitable practice. They didn't begin with Covid, but the pandemic accelerated trends that were already...

In a few frenzied career years, I went from a glass office overlooking Central Park, to getting my MBA from Wharton, to a string of Silicon Valley tech startups.

Now I'm acquiring and improving trailer parks in Iowa, Oklahoma and Texa...

On a recent weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, cars on the street had the look of a bygone era. I saw surviving Saturns, Oldsmobile minivans, even that funky old greenhouse on wheels, the AMC Pacer.  

Turns out, cars in the rest of t...

Crypto winter has arrived-and it's chilly out there for the thousands of employees being laid off in response to the sector's worst downturn in several years.

I should know. My cryptocurrency company is one of the many that had...

Across the country, legislators are piling on regulations and restrictions that make it harder to build and maintain affordable housing at a time of desperate need.

In Dover-Foxcroft, a small town in Maine, a drafted moratorium on ma...

But peek under the hood, and all is not nearly as bad as it seems. You can navigate these financial speed bumps with less pain by taking a buyer beware approach - and scrutinizing your auto loan as closely as you research your new vehicle.

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The need for rules is more urgent than ever. Segments of the crypto economy are becoming too big to fail, putting investors and whole financial systems at risk. The $40 billion of the TerraUSD and its linked Luna token provided a taste of this, w...

In late May, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde told a Dutch television show that cryptocurrencies are "worth nothing." She's not alone in her sentiments. Since volatility shook the digital currency market earlier in the mont...

When Covid-19 first hit, our company went entirely remote. We soon saw 10% drops in productivity.

Two months after the initial nationwide lockdowns, while most other companies kept working from home, we returned to the office. We've b...

As we watch rent and home prices soar around the country, it's easy to forget that the U.S. housing market includes far more options than just luxury condo towers and single-family homes.

In fact, multi-family dwellings and mobile h...

Few would mourn the death of the traditional car-buying experience. The haggling and the I-have-to-talk-to-my-manager routine. The multi-hour wait for financing as you sit through sales pitches for extras like leather protection and roof racks. <...

Family offices looking for a recession-resistant opportunity to diversify portfolios may have overlooked a low-risk exposure to a real estate sector that has steadily outperformed higher profile investments such as hotels and apartments. While it...

Company founders are forces of nature. Their driven personalities take their firms from garage to multi-million dollar ventures, while also inspiring passion in those who work for them.

Yet as their companies scale into sprawling affa...

The U.S. M&A market for managed IT services providers (MSPs) was red hot in 2021. We analyzed market activity and reviewed 78 transactions announced during the year. Despite that torrid pace, many buyers missed out on transactions and their a...