What gave this city its ‘best place to retire’ crown? You can actually afford to live there.

The share of homeowners sitting pretty on a huge chunk of home equity just hit a nearly five-year low.  In a new report, property data company Attom found that just 41% of U.S. homes with mortgages were equity-rich in the second quarter, down from 43% in the first quarter of the year. That might not…

Planet Labs (PL +7.99%) stock soared 7.8% through 11:40 a.m. ET Friday after confirming the successful launch, aboard a “Transporter” Falcon 9 rocket managed by Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX +6.12%), of 20 Planet Labs-built satellites to orbit. Image source: Getty Images. What’s Planet launching now? Running down the list, Planet says the SpaceX Transport 18…

You have spent years building the company. A potential purchaser is on the horizon, and your first instinct is to mitigate the government’s take. Here is what too many founders learn too late: with the proper equity structure, held correctly, the answer can be a nominal amount or even nothing at all. Section 1202 of…

For years, the conventional wisdom about young workers has gone something like this: Gen Z doesn’t want a traditional career. They’d rather freelance, day-trade, chase side hustles, and treat a 9-to-5 as something like a relic that their parents clung to. Some were even “financial nihilists” who gave up on an old-fashioned career. Paul Osterman,…

AI keeps getting more capable, but capability isn’t the same thing as intelligence. Here’s why the race toward AGI may be hitting a ceiling few want to acknowledge.

For years, merchant service providers (MSPs) and ISOs have approached healthcare as just another vertical. There’s a bit more compliance, a few integrations, and maybe a longer sales cycle. But beneath the surface, something more fundamental is shifting market demand. Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly,…