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Happy Monday, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories:
How to win every economic and political argument with your family this Thanksgiving
How to be smarter than everyone else when the topic turns to the economy and election.
How the 1% spend their millions on charitable causes
Warren Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates and Michael Bloomberg and other billionaire philanthropists have similar charitable endeavors that are close to their hearts.
As Uber loses its license in London over safety concerns, here’s the best way rideshare customers can protect themselves
Transport for London cited ‘several breaches that placed passengers and their safety at risk’
The best presents to get the hardest people to shop for — your parents
For starters, don’t buy them a reminder of their age.
Why investors need to tread carefully now that Schwab is merging with Ameritrade
Schwab is acquiring TD Ameritade in a deal that will create a brokerage behemoth with approximately $5 trillion in assets.
This is exactly how much housing speculation can affect household income and employment
A new study quantified how much speculative real-estate purchases by investors contributed to the last housing boom — and the Great Recession.
How to give someone a better career for Christmas
The nature of work is changing, and these services will enable your friends and family to adapt with it.
Disney is giving us Baby Yoda toys for Christmas
Merchandise featuring the breakout star of “The Mandalorian” on Disney+ will be available through stores like Amazon, Target and Macy’s.
Shopping on Black Friday? 5 ways to score the best deals
One trick: put something in your online shopping cart and leave it there.
We asked country-music stars — the poets of pickups — to review Tesla’s new Cybertruck
It’s ‘pretty doggone cool,’ said one Grammy-nominated singer.
Elsewhere on MarketWatch
Trump calls Pelosi ‘incapable’ of setting up USMCA vote
President Donald Trump on Monday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to move the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal through the House, saying it’d be her fault if the U.S.’s partner nations pull out.
Here’s why those billionaires could be wrong about a Warren presidency tanking stocks
Declarations of impending market doom if Elizabeth Warren becomes president aren’t based on trading patterns — because there are none, writes Mark Hulbert.
How to talk about the economy with your family at Thanksgiving
If Thanksgiving dinner were distributed the way that wealth is in America, one person would get half the pie, while 10 people would gnaw on skin and gristle.
U.S. tariffs on China have oddly little effect on import prices. What’s going on?
Steep U.S. tariffs on most Chinese goods have had a puzzling lack of influence on the price of imports, raising questions about who exactly is paying the lion’s share of higher duties.
Why stock-market investors should fear a 2020 election ‘sweep’ most of all
History indicates that a clean sweep by Democrats or Republicans next November would be bad news for stocks, analysts warn.
Critics say KKR’s ‘responsible investment’ stance is being clouded by its stake in a controversial tear-gas maker
Executives from KKR & Co. Inc. have raised more than $1 billion in 2019 for their “impact fund“ as the alternative investment firm has made respect for human rights one of the tenets of its private-equity business.
This financial adviser’s viral Twitter post has cost Ken Fisher almost $4 billion so far
Calling out billionaire money manager for lewd remarks was the ‘right thing to do,’ says Alex Chalekian.
Schwab and Ameritrade in the spotlight: Are broker stocks worth buying?
Mergers could create a spike in prices but, overall, there are pricing pressures in the industry.
