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I began my corporate career in data and later transitioned into product management in tech.Running my own creative business was a goal I always kept in the background — something I hoped for, but didn’t always believe was realistic. Over the last year, I made a few shifts that helped me grow a personal passion into a sustainable venture.In April, after eight years of working in the corporate world, I left my £550, or around $750, a day, product management contract to become a full-time artist.Now, I’m working from my new studio, running a profitable creative business, and finally spending…

More Wall Street executives are getting paid like private equity bosses — a trend that’s only going to continue as the lines between public and private markets blur, according to a new report.Wall Street compensation firm Johnson Associates released a report this month predicting that more investment banks and traditional asset managers will start paying their executives with a form of compensation traditionally associated with the private equity industry.Carried interest is a share of the profits earned by investment managers, often 20%, after a fund returns capital to investors. It’s helped many private equity bosses reach billionaire status in recent…

Copenhagen, Denmark, is the world’s most livable city.The Danish capital ranked the highest in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index report, a survey of 173 cities. EIU, which publishes the annual report, measures and scores cities on five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. This report compiled data collected between April 14 and May 11, 2025.Copenhagen received three perfect scores in stability, education, and infrastructure. Known for its canals, architecture, and bike-friendly culture, the Danish city scored 98.0 out of 100 according to the report’s index.Western Europe dominated the top five with Vienna, Zurich, and Geneva…

Gucci’s parent company just got a new boss to steer it through a rough patch.Kering, which also owns YSL, Bottega Veneta, and Balenciaga, announced in a news release on Monday that Luca de Meo, the former CEO of Renault, had been appointed CEO.The luxury retail company said that de Meo will officially start the new role in September, subject to the approval of Kering’s board of directors during its shareholder meeting in that month.In the press release, de Meo said he would work to “continue to make Kering an essential player in the luxury industry.” Kering did not respond to…

Matthew Perry appears at the GQ Men of the Year Party in West Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 17, 2022. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP LOS ANGELES — A doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to the “Friends” star’s overdose death will plead guilty, according to an agreement filed in court Monday. Dr. Salvador Plasencia agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, according to the signed document filed in federal court in Los Angeles. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed to drop three additional counts of distribution…

Senate Republicans propose to cut trillions of dollars in taxes for households and businesses in their version of President Donald Trump’s signature economic package, a plan that comes at the expense of curbing health coverage for some low-income Americans and adding to US deficits.The bill would preserve Trump’s first-term tax cuts and create several new breaks that he championed on the campaign trail — including eliminating taxes on tips. To offset the cost, senators are proposing to repeal some clean energy tax credits and scale back Medicaid benefits spending more deeply than in the House-passed bill.Within hours of the bill’s…

Major Supreme Court cases that remain include a challenge to President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship. About two weeks remain in the term. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images The Supreme Court term usually ends with a bang, not a whimper. This is crunch time at the court, as the justices push to issue their opinions by the end of June. Some 20 cases remain to be decided—about a third of the total argued cases–many of them the most important of the term. The Supreme Court used to be a rather stately beat with a…

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The high court is slated to issue opinions on high-profile cases in the coming weeks as its term ends. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The high court is slated to issue opinions on high-profile cases in the coming weeks as its term ends. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Around this time every year, the U.S. Supreme Court ends its term with a bang. The Justices typically save their biggest rulings for June. Outstanding cases include the president’s birthright citizenship executive order, a Tennessee law blocking…

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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed by the House and whose revised text was released Monday by Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee, includes a number of significant tax provisions for both corporate taxpayers and nonprofits.”Even before we saw the legislative text of the One Big Beautiful Bill, we knew these would be the big provisions for most of our clients that they were interested to see what was going to happen,” said Jess LeDonne, director of tax technical at the Bonadio Group. “The big one that I get the most questions about right now would be the…