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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hidde van Vliet, 37, the cofounder of Entourage in Bali. His words have been edited for length and clarity.In 2023, the industrial logistics firm I worked for relocated from Amsterdam to Malta, and I was promoted to general manager. On paper, it looked like a step up. In reality, it was the first sign that the way I was structuring my life no longer fit.I helped lead the company’s move — setting up the office, hiring staff, and building operations from scratch. Malta had what I thought I wanted: sun, ocean,…

A major program for student-loan borrowers in public service is facing big changes — and delays.Over 7 million borrowers are pursuing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which forgives student debt for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments.Thousands of those borrowers, though, might have completed their qualifying payments but are still waiting for relief. That’s because they applied for the PSLF buyback, which allows borrowers to “buy back” months spent in deferment or forbearance periods by making payments equal to what they would have owed at the time. Borrowers can apply for a buyback only if…

Student-loan borrowers, check the mail: there might be some money waiting for you.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a federal watchdog — announced that on February 13, checks began going out in the mail to student-loan borrowers who qualified for a portion of the settlement the agency reached with major lender Navient in 2024.The settlement resolved claims from a 2017 lawsuit that accused the servicer of misleading borrowers about their repayment plan options, leaving them “cheated” out of lower monthly payments. The settlement permanently banned Navient from servicing federal student loans and required it to return $100 million to borrowers.…

We’re a 10-minute walk from the Palace of Versailles. My wife attends ISIPCA, one of the most prestigious graduate perfumery programs in the world, and I’m an American writer living right outside Paris.It may sound glamorous, but my daily routine hasn’t really changed. Before our move in October, I sat in front of a computer all day. After our move, my life has looked pretty much the same.I must admit, there was a wide-eyed part of me that thought the lifestyle of an American expat living outside Paris would all but confirm my Great American Novel, but the reality was…

What do broad student-loan forgiveness and tariffs have in common? More than you might think, according to the nation’s highest court.On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, ruling that he lacked the authority to enact his expansive tariff policies under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. While IEEPA allows the president to regulate economic activity during emergencies, the Supreme Court said that Trump’s tariffs went beyond the law’s threshold.If that argument sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same one the Supreme Court made in 2023 when it struck down former President Joe Biden’s broad…

“Should I go to the first day of the conference or see my daughter?” I asked my group of fellow family travel writers during a Zoom meeting ahead of our work conference.The conference would be held in New York City, where my 20-year-old daughter lives and goes to college.My original plan was to attend the two-day conference and just have dinner with her, but then she surprised me with news. She had the whole day free, while I was in town.I decided to pull a Ferris Bueller.I’ve never been the one to play hookyGrowing up, I watched “Ferris Bueller’s Day…

For years, Dr. Jill Green watched a large chunk of her physician’s salary eaten up by taxes.”I was paying a ton in taxes and still writing a check for a hefty five-figure amount every year,” she told Business Insider.When she and her husband started investing in real estate about six years ago to create an additional revenue stream, she learned about a little-known IRS designation called real estate professional status, or REPS. It’s a strategy some tax experts have nicknamed the “marital loophole.”The rule allows qualifying investors to use real estate losses to offset W-2 income, something most high earners…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Wendy Martin, 50, who chose to delist the Airbnb on her property near Dayton, Ohio, after bad experiences with guests. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.We purchased our property from a family member who was already doing Airbnb.The owners enjoyed it and were pretty successful at it. They made us quite a deal on the property, so we decided to go ahead and just keep it as an Airbnb.It’s a small single-family home. It was built in 1910 as the original home on the property while the family…

In the search for Nancy Guthrie, authorities have relied not only on traditional investigative work but also on data trails tied to two of the world’s largest companies.Google and Walmart have both emerged as significant players in the high-profile investigation, assisting local Arizona law enforcement and the FBI as they work to locate the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.Authorities believe that Nancy Guthrie was abducted from her ranch-style home in the Catalina Foothills, just outside Tucson, AZ, nearly three weeks ago.A major break in the case came more than a week into the elderly woman’s mysterious disappearance,…

Don’t expect prices at the store to fall just because the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs.At best, companies may slow the pace of future price hikes on goods that get tariff relief. But they’re unlikely to cut prices outright, economists at Goldman Sachs wrote in a note published Sunday.”We would not expect companies to lower prices in response to tariff reductions nearly as quickly as they increased them in response to tariff increases,” the economists wrote.The bank estimates tariff passthrough has already lifted core Personal Consumption Expenditures, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, by about 0.7% through…