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Galleries and Stores: Do I Pay the Rent?

Apr 29, 2020
4 min

Galleries and Stores: Do I Pay the Rent?

It didn't take long to call the question. Did we think it would? Do I pay rent? How will I do that? At home, 43% of renters nationwide hadn't paid their April rent by April 15th. We're two days from May and it's still more than 30% who haven't paid April. What's May gonna look like? Already renter's strikes are being organized--ten thousand have signed on for a demonstration this Friday in New York. Can a wildfire spread of rent strikes like that around the country be far beh

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Artists and Self-Employed Covid-19 Benefits

Apr 27, 2020
3 min

Artists and Self-Employed Covid-19 Benefits

People who work and get a W-2 have filed for unemployment benefits in a tidal wave of website-crashing benefit claims. Through Thursday, there were already 26.5 million claims filed for unemployment benefits. And most states have not been able to process anywhere near all the people attempting to file. Let's figure the real total at somewhere north of 30 million now (that's 20% of the whole work force). But artists and self-employed people, professionals and gig workers, don'

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How to Redo Your Budget During Quarantine

Apr 17, 2020
3 min

How to Redo Your Budget During Quarantine

I'm hearing from people across the spectrum of income and wealth who are now in a financial bind. A woman from Texas relying on social security and a small income from a client that is now gone. She can't pay the rent. I spoke to a man who invested all of his inheritance in a real estate project that is now on hold, and at the worst possible time since no cash is available and the project is completely illiquid. It's true, he is worth more than a million dollars so why should

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