How much space you can get for a monthly rent payment of $1,500 depends entirely on where you live.In Manhattan, New York, it’s an average of 216 square feet — roughly the size of a bedroom. But in Wichita, Kansas, the same amount will get you an average of 1,329 square feet — enough for a multi-room apartment or even a modest house, according to RentCafe.The rankings are based on average rent and apartment size data for March 2025, from real estate data platform Yardi Matrix, which is operated by the same parent company as RentCafe. The ranking used U.S.…
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Solar energy is booming across the U.S. and, for the first time, Florida is catching up to industry powerhouses Texas and California.Despite removing climate change from its official state policy in 2024, Florida added more utility-scale solar than California last year, with over 3 gigawatts of new capacity coming online. “This is not a fluke,” said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, senior analyst at Wood Mackenzie. “Florida is now shaping national solar growth.”The surge is being driven by utilities, not rooftop panels. Florida Power & Light alone built over 70% of the state’s new solar last year. A state rule lets developers skip…
Curating your fitness routine to better match your personality could help you get the most out of your workouts, a new study shows.The paper, published last month in Frontiers in Psychology, shows that certain personality traits may indicate which type of exercises people enjoy and how likely they are to stick with them.”We found that our personality can influence how we engage with exercise, and particularly which forms of exercise we enjoy the most,” Flaminia Ronca, one of the study’s co-authors and an associate professor at University College London, said in a press release.”It’s OK if we don’t enjoy a…
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 14, 2024 shows US President-elect Donald Trump on November 13, 2024, and Special Counsel Jack Smith on June 9, 2023. Saul Loebmandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith for alleged political violations of the Hatch Act, an accusation levied by President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans but one, as publicly presented, void of specific evidence of wrongdoing.Notably, the OSC, which is different than an office of a special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice, lacks…
In 2017, Doug Barnard, a college student at the time, took a trip to India with his mom. The experience was so impactful that it eventually inspired him to become a full-time traveler—a path he didn’t know was possible for him.”Going to India was an eye-opening experience for me. It was the first time I’d been to some place so foreign, so stimulating and for me it was this epiphany that I needed to experience more,” Barnard tells CNBC Make It.”The most exciting part was talking to the people and seeing how things work. The immersion was what really got…
Linde on Friday reported better-than-expected quarterly results Thursday, showcasing what the industrial gas giant does best when times get tough. Revenue for the first quarter ended June 30, increased roughly 3% versus the year-ago period, coming in at $8.5 billion, ahead of the the LSEG compiled analysts’ consensus estimate of $8.35 billion. Adjusted earnings per share rose just over 6% year over year to $4.09, also outpacing the $4.03 expected, according to LSEG. Bottom line Linde delivered in a difficult operating environment — which is exactly why you own the stock. The company is a critical supplier so high up…
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesHealth care remained a resilient sector for jobs in July even as the broader labor market showed further signs of slowing, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday shows.Health care and social assistance saw 73,300 jobs added last month, far and away the most growth of any group in the period. When including private education with the health-care group, as some economists do, that growth would have increased to 79,000 for the month.Nonfarm payrolls in July grew by 73,000, meaning that health care accounted for virtually all of those gains…
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 3, 2025.CNBCBerkshire Hathaway on Saturday reported a small decline in second-quarter operating earnings as Warren Buffett’s conglomerate warns of negative impacts from steep U.S. tariffs.Berkshire’s operating profit — those from the company’s wholly owned businesses including insurance and railroads — dipped 4% year over year to $11.16 billion in the second quarter. The results were impacted by a decline in insurance underwriting, while railroad, energy, manufacturing, service and retailing all saw higher profits from a year ago.The Omaha-based conglomerate once again issued a stern warning…
Emmy, a 31-year-old living in Los Angeles, has been in a credit card debt cycle — racking up balances, paying a card off and then maxing it out again — since she was 18. When Emmy, who uses a pseudonym online to protect her privacy, started sharing her debt journey on TikTok in March, her total balanced exceeded $28,000.”I know this is my fault,” she tells CNBC Make It. “I was always the friend that’d be like, ‘Shots on me,’ or ‘Oh, don’t worry, I got it’ or ‘Just pay me next time,'” she says, adding that she wouldn’t always follow…
Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new Adobo Ranch dipSource: Chipotle Mexican GrillRestaurant brands are hoping hot new menu items will drive visits among younger costumers. Hot, in this case, is literal.Spicy items like chicken sandwiches, seasoned sides and sauces are cropping up more often on menus at major fast-casual and quick-service chains. The idea is to introduce easy-to-execute and buzzy options that can capture the attentions of Gen Z and Gen Alpha diners, even if it’s only a flash in the pan.One of those companies was Chipotle, which in June introduced Adobo Ranch, its first new dip in five years, as a…
