‘We’re just tired of negative cynicism about America’: Booker on why Dems’ ‘joy’ message is resonating Democratic Sen. Cory Booker tells CNN’s Jake Tapper “it’s about time that our country start plugging into that hopefulness and that joyfulness.” Read the full article here

By Kelly K. James, Next Avenue During an interdepartmental Zoom meeting, a vice president asked for feedback about a video he’d produced, on a tight timeframe, to promote our company. On the video, one employee made a comment that made our company look bad. I thought she may have misspoken…

Our goal here at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, referred to as “Credible” below, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we do promote products from our partner lenders who compensate us for our services, all opinions are our own. The…

It appears more investors are eyeing dividend stocks ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision in September.Paul Baiocchi of SS&C ALPS Advisors thinks it is a sound strategy because he sees the Fed easing rates.”Investors are moving back toward dividends out of money markets, out of fixed income, but…

Boeing will return its capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that Starliner delivered to orbit, the agency announced on Saturday.The decision to bring Starliner back from the ISS without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams marks a dramatic about-face for NASA and Boeing, as the organizations…

It’s never been harder to be Mister Softee. Once, there were more than 2,000 Mister Softee trucks in 38 states during the company’s peak in the 1960s. Now, there are only around 630 Mister Softee trucks looping around neighborhoods and parks in 21 states. Competition and rising costs are hurting…

Introduction In December of last year, I argued Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) non-callable preferred shares were a good idea to speculate on a rate cut (and on decreasing interest rates on the financial markets). So far, the investment has done what I expected it to do. Bank of America continued…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Italian prosecutors are investigating charges of manslaughter and “negligent shipwreck” over the sinking of a superyacht in bad weather in which UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others died. Ambrogio Cartosio,…

‘Uncommitted’ Dems react to not getting DNC stage time to speak about Gaza CNN’s Victor Blackwell speaks with Ruwa Romman and Abbas Alawieh on the DNC not fulfilling the “Uncommitted” movement’s request to speak during the convention. Read the full article here

By Elana Rabinowitz, Next Avenue “We call it pretirement,” a woman said while gushing about her new life in the affluent resort town of Saratoga Springs, New York. The smile on her face was impossible to hide. “Pretirement?” I asked, as if she made a verbal typo. She explained that…