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champpixs / Getty Images/iStockphotoLauren Garner is Vice President of Demand Generation and Partnerships at Ascent Funding. With specialized finance and lending expertise, she focuses on financial management, strategic partnerships, improving financial literacy and fostering sustainable lending growth.Read more: If you invested $1,000 in Ford stock 10 years ago, here’s how much you’d have nowCheck it out: 7 Reasons to Consider a Financial Advisor Even If You’re Not RichIn her own financial life, she follows the same expert advice she gives to her clients: develop an efficient, simple and sustainable strategy for choosing successful long-term investments.To pursue long-term gains, she decides…

Venture capital giant Flagship Pioneering plans to invest a total of $3.6 billion in new capital over the next three to five years to help create and develop around 25 startups in the areas of life sciences, human health, sustainability and artificial intelligence. This new effort will see Flagship’s core portfolio focused on human health and sustainability, further expanding its AI portfolio that has grown over the past six years since the company entered the space with the founding of Generate:Biomedicines, a developer of therapeutics based on de novo protein generation. Flagship participated with a number of other investors in…

U.Today – JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has issued a market-impacting warning, with this latest warning leaving many investors wondering about the impact on various asset classes, especially cryptocurrencies. According to CNBC, the CEO of JPMorgan issued a warning about inflation on Friday, despite recent signs that price pressures have eased. The index rose more than 2% in today’s trading session, surpassing $58,000. “While we have made some progress in reducing inflation, multiple inflationary forces remain in our way,” Dimon said in a statement accompanying the Fed’s second-quarter earnings call. “As a result, inflation and interest rates may remain higher than…

You’re not alone in the cost of living crisis. A new report shows that three-quarters of Americans agree with you and say they’re not financially stable right now. Prices for necessities like housing, food and transportation have skyrocketed over the past three and a half years, and a family needs an annual income of $186,000 to live comfortably.That’s a staggering figure: more than double what the average full-time worker makes. Even a two-parent household making the average full-time salary would be short about $28,000 a year.It’s no wonder people are pessimistic about the economy and that 70% of Americans are…

Biden misidentifies Harris as ‘Vice President Trump’ at NATO press conferenceReally supportIndependent journalismClick here for detailscloseOur mission is to provide unbiased, fact-based journalism that holds power accountable and exposes the truth.Every donation counts, whether it’s $5 or $50.Support us to deliver journalism without purpose.Vice President Kamala Harris will speak at a rally in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, while Donald Trump will hold his own rally in western Pennsylvania a few hours later to announce his running mate.Both rallies came on the heels of one in Michigan, another battleground state, where Biden sought to reassure voters and again vowed to keep…

Editor’s note: Alison Gilbert is a journalist and the author and co-author of six books, including, with Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer and Pierre Leff, “The Joy of Connection: 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier, More Meaningful Life,” due to be published September 3. The opinions expressed in this editorial are Gilbert’s own. Read more at CNN. CNN — Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the pioneering sex therapist who was named an honorary New York City Ambassador for Loneliness last year, died on Friday at age 96. The historic appointment, which Dr. Westheimer broke political convention to secure, was the…

(Bloomberg) — Argentina’s central bank will start selling U.S. dollars on the country’s parallel foreign-exchange market starting on Monday, a move Economy Minister Luis Caputo called a “deepening of the monetary framework.”Most read articles on BloombergCaputo and President Javier Milley on Saturday began detailing a new strategy to stem the widening gap between Argentina’s official exchange rate and the parallel rates traded in financial markets. Currency controls keep the official peso rate at 919 pesos per dollar, but one of the main parallel rates closed at 1,405 pesos per dollar on Friday.Government figures released Friday showed monthly price increases began…

Blockchain startups have secured $150.9 million in recent days, with Partior’s $60 million Series B announcement being the largest round last week and signaling solid investment in the cryptocurrency space. The blockchain space saw a significant influx of funding this week, with 22 startups securing a total of $150.9 million across various funding rounds, according to Crypto Fundraising. A breakdown of this week’s funding can be seen in the table below. Cryptocurrency Funding July 7-13 | Source: Cryptocurrency Funding Largest funding round: Partior, $60 million Frontrunner Partior has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to improve a…

Joe Biden convened a “family meeting” to bring together relatives and some longtime advisers just weeks after his self-inflicted wounds following his debate performance.During the session, Biden’s advisers pointed to the negative backlash from the debate, arguing that it would cause polls to drop and dry up fundraising for the presidential campaign, but Biden’s children believed that abandoning the race would leave Biden’s gaffes in the debates memorable and tarnish his reputation. Biden must keep fighting.The story begins almost 40 years ago, in 1987, during Biden’s first campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Then-Senator from Delaware, Biden followed his family’s…

A man sits in a wheelchair at the corner of Northern Lights Boulevard and A Street in Anchorage’s Midtown neighborhood on Friday, July 1, 2022. (Emily Messner/ADN) A few days ago, I was making a turn at a busy intersection in Midtown when I saw a man using a garden hose to spray a woman who was lying unconscious on the sidewalk. I felt my mind go blank and my face get hot. I gripped the steering wheel. I had to do something.Anchorage’s homelessness problem goes far beyond endlessly teasing out our indifference to a hassle-free situation. I myself walked…