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The new Cracker Barrel logo is seen on a menu inside the restaurant on Aug. 21, 2025 in Pembroke Pines, Florida.Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesCracker Barrel Old Country Store on Monday issued a statement responding to the widespread backlash it faced last week over its rebranding and new logo.”If the last few days have shown us anything, it’s how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel. We’re truly grateful for your heartfelt voices,” the company wrote. “You’ve also shown us that we could’ve done a better job sharing who we are and who we’ll always be.”The new logo removes the image…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will lead to a “renaissance” of income tax planning through non-grantor trusts that can “stack” the available savings, according to two experts.In light of the law, financial advisors, tax professionals and their clients should consider income strategies involving methods that shift their earnings to multiple trust entities that could harness several of the benefits at once, according to a webinar earlier this month held by Leimberg Information Services, which provides training courses, newsletters and other resources for financial advisors and tax and law professionals with high net worth customers. The potential opportunities stem from new…

And that’s “How It’s Done.”Netflix capitalized on its chart-topping “KPop Demon Hunters” over the weekend with a two-day theatrical release of its new sing-along version.Box office analysts spent much of Sunday trying to determine exactly how well the animated feature performed, relying on anonymous executives from rival studios and scraped data from ticket sales sites. Estimates range from $16 million to $20 million for the sing-along’s domestic run.That’s smaller than recent domestic theatrical re-releases like “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” and the 15th anniversary screenings of “Coraline” — which generated $25 million and $33 million, respectively — but higher…

The total effective tax rate for the 400 wealthiest Americans was lower than the general population, according to a new study.The study, from UC Berkeley economists Akcan Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, compared data from the Forbes 400 list with statistics from the Internal Revenue Service on individual, business, estate and gift tax returns 2010-2020. “In our benchmark estimate, the total effective tax rate—all taxes paid relative to economic income—of the top 0.0002% (approximately the “top 400”) averaged 24% in 2018–2020 compared with 30% for the full population and…

An aerial view of a cargo ship being loaded with shipping containers at the Port of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 7, 2025. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty ImagesPostal carriers across Europe are planning to suspend some shipments to the U.S. as the nations prepare for the end of a longstanding trade rule.Certain shipments from Germany, Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Switzerland are due to be paused in the coming days and weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending the century-old “de minimis” exemption.The trade policy, sometimes referred to as a “loophole,”…

The pitch went like this: Good, safe drinking water has become such a scarce resource that Americans will pay to fill up jugs — 30 or 40 cents to the gallon — at dispensers all across the country.Hundreds of investors bought thousands of units, believing in the vision laid out by Ryan Wear, founder of a startup called WaterStation Management. They plunked down $8,500 for each vending machine and then waited for the dispensers to throw off a steady stream of cash. Among those lured in was a product manager in Oregon in 2021 and then, several months later, a…