My great-grandmother was a vaudeville comic and lived to 96. Here are her secrets to longevity.
The author’s great-grandmother standing in front of the biplane she and her husband traveled in. At 54, I’ve reached the age my great-grandmother was when she stood onstage at county fairs in a red satin gown, tossing juggling clubs to my great-grandfather on his tightwire and setting up punchlines for his jokes. She’d experienced a…
JPMorgan’s junior bankers just gained an ally in their fight against overwork. Here’s what we know about the longtime exec tapped to advocate for them.
Ryland McClendon Last week, JPMorgan Chase announced that it would be seeking to limit junior bankers’ work hours to 80 per week to tackle concerns over unhealthy working conditions. Now, the bank seems to be showing it means business by tapping an investment banker turned HR executive to enforce its new rules. In a memo…
A poker player turned trader up 253% this year details how he picks which stocks to target — and the event-driven strategy he uses to maximize gains
“All the natural human instincts you have, you have to do the complete opposite in almost every circumstance to be a successful trader,” said Christian Flanders. In the early 2000s, Flanders was a trading assistant at a bond-trading firm by day and a professional online poker player by night. Both occupations served as meaningful sources…
A millennial FIRE couple shares how moving abroad and living on a $50k income helped them quadruple their net worth to $700k in 6 years
A millennial couple shares how they’ve grown their net worth from $100,000 to over $700,000 in the last six years. About two decades ago, before he’d ever heard of the FIRE movement, Brian Davis decided to pursue financial independence and an early retirement. He began investing his savings in rental properties, thinking that if he…
I help the ultrawealthy secure golden visas and golden passports. Here are the top 5 countries they want to move to.
Arton said demand for residence-by-investment is continuously growing among the wealthy. I founded Arton Capital in 2006. We advise governments on how to attract wealthy global citizens to their countries through residence-by-investment programs, and we also have a private client division where we advise ultra-high and high-net-worth families about how to obtain residencies in other…
I’d sworn off dating apps until I heard about the ‘burned haystack’ approach women are swearing by. So I put it to the test.
Nicola Prentis thought she had given up on dating apps for good until she discovered a new method. After a two-and-a-half-year break from the time-suck of dating apps, I reluctantly reinstalled one on my phone a few weeks ago. But this time, I was determined not to waste hours swiping or replying to any zero-effort…
A Russian warlord who seemingly put a machine gun on a Cybertruck says Elon Musk ‘remotely disabled’ the militarized EV
Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, stands on top of a Tesla Cybertruck with what appears to be a machine gun mounted to it. The Chechen warlord who showed off a Cybertruck decked out with what appeared to be a machine gun is raging against Elon Musk, saying Tesla remotely bricked his…
Lithuania is the world’s happiest place for under 30s, but it’s also Europe’s suicide capital
Domantas Katelė, an official in Lithuania’s Ministry of Social Security and Labour, is widely known as his country’s “Gen Z minister.” Rings adorn Katelė’s tattooed fingers, which he uses to proudly point to his “Politicians make me sick” door sign. At 25, he’s the country’s youngest-ever deputy minister (he still wears braces), and rarely lets…
MIND is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH diets. A dietitian who wrote a book on it shares 3 mistakes people make when starting out.
The MIND diet was designed to promote brain health. A dietitian who has written a book on the MIND diet spoke to B-17 about the most common mistakes people make when starting to follow it. The MIND diet stands for the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, and combines the principles of the Mediterranean and DASH…
