1 p.m. EST: White House press secretary Jen PsakiJen PsakiOn The Money: Senate confirms Yellen as first female Treasury secretary | Biden says he's open to tighter income limits for stimulus checks | Administration will look to expedite getting Tubman on bill Biden press secretary playfully accepts advice from 'Scandal' counterpart Overnight Health Care: Biden says anyone who wants vaccine may be able to get it by spring | Moderna says vaccine effective on variants, but tests booster shot | California lifts regional stay-at-home order MORE holds a press briefing. Livestream: https://bit.ly/3sTSdq2 … [Read more...] about The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – GOP senator retires
How to get free credit report once a year
Six ways to ensure you maintain a good credit rating
The first time you apply for a loan or credit (which could be opening an account with a phone or electricity company), the credit provider will do a credit check, which will lead to the creation of a credit file on one or more of the credit reporting companies. That file includes identifying details such as your name, address, and date of birth. … [Read more...] about Six ways to ensure you maintain a good credit rating
In the Most Competitive Oscar Season Ever, Bloggers Are Keeping Score
Least predictable of all is Best Picture, where American Hustle, Gravity, and 12 Years a Slave have been in a dead heat for much of the season. Sasha Stone started her site to answer the existential Best Picture question: Why did Citizen Kane lose to How Green Was My Valley? She and O’Neil have come to believe a good prognosticator is a cynical one. “Now we know why Citizen Kane lost,” says O’Neil; it was the better movie. “And it would lose all over again this year,” says Stone. She blogged for free for eight years while working as a teacher’s aide and janitor—“literally cleaning shit off the walls in Van Nuys.” Today she makes low six figures, but sometimes thinks, I would put it all back in the bottle, if I could, just to love movies again. … [Read more...] about In the Most Competitive Oscar Season Ever, Bloggers Are Keeping Score
Marie Osmond reflects on remarrying her first husband: ‘God brought a miracle into both of our lives’
"I have the Harley and he has the Honda," she laughed. "I’ve actually had a motorcycle license since I was 16. I couldn’t really enjoy it because I was always busy with work and you have to worry about insurance [as a performer]. And then when you have kids you’re like, ‘I can’t do that because I have children.’ But now, it’s gotten to the point where I said, ‘Gosh, I’m going to do it before I can’t!’ So, I got me a Harley." … [Read more...] about Marie Osmond reflects on remarrying her first husband: ‘God brought a miracle into both of our lives’
Bloomberg: Online Investing Forums Are Driving Stocks Like Gamestop ‘to the Moon’
It’s a role cast for them with relish by their chat-room usurpers, the tens of thousands of average Joe day-traders whose fervor for a left-for-dead retailer has become a self-fulfilling prophecy in its 245% rally this year. GameStop has become a money geyser for the options-obsessed crowd that gathers in Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum. For those wagering on a decline, it’s been a catastrophe. … [Read more...] about Bloomberg: Online Investing Forums Are Driving Stocks Like Gamestop ‘to the Moon’
