The New American Dream of Renting a Home
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-17 14:05
Home ownership used to be a natural next step for people in their late 20s and early 30s, but as they stand on the sidelines, a new kind of investor is stepping in, but not the one you might think. -We're able to be nimble, like a small investor, but not be with the red tape of bureaucracy of a large REIT or a larger, like, for example, a Blackstone. Westin: Rajan Bhatt is the co-founder and President of Strand Capital, a private equity firm, but he started out as a physician. -I've always been more entrepr ...
Sen. Chris Murphy says ‘Putin got everything he wanted’ from his meeting with Trump
NBC News· 2025-08-17 14:04
Thank you so much for being here on a very big week. You just heard my conversation with Secretary Rubio. We specifically started talking about the fact that President Trump initially said he wanted a ceasefire agreement.Now he wants a broader peace deal. Secretary Rubio defending that approach, basically saying the Russians wouldn't agree to a ceasefire. Do you think that it's the right strategy to now focus on that broader peace deal.That meeting was a disaster. It was an embarrassment for the United Stat ...
From Lemons to $6.2BN: Airwallex’s Crazy Story
20VC with Harry Stebbings· 2025-08-17 14:00
This guy went from working in a lemon factory to building a $6.2% billion fintech giant as a teenager. Jack Jang worked in a lemon factory while studying in Australia before becoming an investment banker. In 2015, he opened a coffee shop with three friends in Melbourne.But when they tried to source beans internationally, they got a hit with massive foreign exchange fees. Jack and his co-founder Max decided to start Airwalklex in 2015, building a transparent crossber payment system that they wished they exis ...
‘History can unite us’: Djimon Hounsou talks importance of preserving stories in age of Trump
MSNBC· 2025-08-17 13:59
>> YOUR HONOR, PLEASE INSTRUCT THE DEFENDANT THAT HE CANNOT DISRUPT THESE PROCEEDINGS WITH SUCH. >> OUTBURSTS OF FREE. >> IF WE ARE TO HAVE ANY SEMBLANCE OF ORDER IN THIS COURTYARD.>> GIVE US. >> GIVE US, US FREE. >> KEEP CRYING OUT.GIVE US FREE OR ANYTHING ELSE. >> GIVE US. >> I'M SORRY TO.>> QUESTION THIS WITNESS. >> GIVE US. US FREE.>> AN ICONIC SCENE. THAT'S ACTOR DJIMON HOUNSOU CRYING OUT THE VOICE OF GENERATIONS IN THE 1997 SPIELBERG FILM AMISTAD, WHICH TOLD THE STORY OF THE FALLOUT FOLLOWING A SLAVE ...
How Dems are getting their ‘act together’: Rep. Dingell reveals strategy to win back American trust
MSNBC· 2025-08-17 13:55
HISTORY OF THIS MOMENT, WHAT WILL THE STORY BE ABOUT US. >> TEXAS HOUSE DEMOCRATS WHO FLED THE STATE TO PREVENT A REPUBLICAN REDISTRICTING PLAN, JOINED DEMONSTRATORS NATIONWIDE THIS WEEKEND TO PROTEST THE BIG POWER GRAB. THOSE SAME DEMOCRATS ARE EXPECTED TO END THEIR EXODUS, LIKELY RETURNING TO THE LONE STAR STATE TOMORROW, AS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT HAS CALLED A SECOND SPECIAL SESSION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO ONCE AGAIN PUSH FOR REDISTRICTING.AS WE'VE BEEN REPORTING FOR WEEKS, THE TEXAS MAPS WOULD HAVE WOU ...
Locking in $4,436 In An Hour #trading
Craig Percoco· 2025-08-17 13:50
All right, and we are in long here. Looking for a nice flip off of this level. See if this is going to be support.We're going to continue up for the session. All right, so we're starting to get a nice push up here. So, I'm going to go ahead and reduce my risk.Risk is now set to break even. See how this trade sort of plays out. Big push.So now I basically have to have the discipline to watch it react off of this, come back down to here, and then probably make a move up for the rest of the day. I trust my ana ...
Marco Rubio says Ukraine-Russia conflict is ‘not our war’: Full interview
NBC News· 2025-08-17 13:41
Joining me now is Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio. Secretary Rubio, welcome back to Meet the Press. Thank you. Thank you for being here.So, heading into the meeting with President Putin on Friday, President Trump said he wanted a ceasefire agreement. Now, he is saying he wants a broader peace deal. We know that Ukraine, we know that European allies want a ceasefire first.Is a ceasefire now off the table, Mr. . Secretary. No, it's not off the table.I think what the president said ...
This Is The EXACT Time & Price to SELL Crypto - Don't Miss It!
Coin Bureau· 2025-08-17 12:45
Whenever crypto rallies, it doesn't take long for those pesky questions to come in and pump the brakes. How sustainable is this rally. How long would it last.And how do I know if this is a local top or the cycle top. And he answered, "That was impossible to know for sure." At the end of the day, crypto is a game of chance, and all you can do is make your best bet, but if you do your research, you can improve your odds of winning. And that's why today we're going to tell you everything you need to know about ...
🚨J-Cal on the Broken American Dream: “Boomers have absolutely f'd these couple of generations.”
All-In Podcast· 2025-08-17 12:20
Boomers have just absolutely this couple of generations. If you look at the cost of homes, the cost of education, the big problem in the United States is wages have not grown except for people who have a lot of money already. If you wanted to start a family and you're in $100,000 in debt for your student loans and homes have doubled, triple, quadrupled in price when compared to your income and we don't have real wage growth.That's an issue and I think this will become the issue of the next election. We see ...
How Rule of Law Hits Wall Street
Bloomberg Television· 2025-08-17 12:07
-I think some of what we're seeing are basically pushing power and pushing authority in directions that we haven't gone before. -We're at a moment now where we have a president who feels unusually unconstrained. -I think we have to be concerned because this administration is pressing boundaries every day.Westin: And some of what President Trump has had to say about the courts and their rulings has not always been reassuring. -Judges are trying to take away the power given to the president to keep our countr ...