"Hacking Finance" To Be More Than Just About Making Money
"Hacking Finance" is on a mission to prove there can be more to the finance industry than just making money. The digital magazine is also building out events to create conversations and communities of socially-minded finance people.
Leslie Campisi is the editor of, " Hacking Finance." She joins Cheddar to explain why the operation is important to the industry. Campisi hopes that Hacking Finance reaches the young person in finance that is questioning or thinking critically about their career.
Campisi explains that the content ranges from high-level content to material for the everyday investor. The digtal content is completely free and the events will come with a fee.
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
Climate change doesn’t just mean more extreme weather – it also leads to billions of dollars in lost productivity, tourism, and stresses infrastructure.
