It’s really hard to be funny. It’s even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker , Bob Mankoff , has made a living making people laugh for decades.

Many traders dislike social media sites like Twitter because so much of the content is celebrating great trades after they occur. If you review the comments of some folks, you must wonder why they aren’t billionaires as they never seem to have a losing trade.

Shake Shack or In-N-Out Burger at the top of their list. So during a trip to Las Vegas, one of the few cities where you can find both of the burger chains, we decided to try a side-by-side comparison to see which burger triumphed.

Shake Shack or In-N-Out Burger at the top of their list. So during a trip to Las Vegas, one of the few cities where you can find both of the burger chains, we decided to try a side-by-side comparison to see which burger triumphed.

Norway’s biggest bank, DNB ASA, has more capital than it needs and will probably start using the excess funds to buy back its own shares. After topping the European Banking Authority’s resilience score , the Oslo-based lender is now attracting investor interest as analysts predict shareholder rewards ahead.

One writer says the received wisdom on how professionals should act on social media is failing to make the world a better place. At each year’s end, people are apt to imagine that the previous 12 months were uniquely bad, The New Yorker ‘s Jia Tolentino recently pointed out .

Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz SE’s chief economic adviser, said investors shouldn’t overlook risks tied to the strengthening U.S. currency. “The number I look at every morning is what the dollar is doing,” El-Erian said Friday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

The best things in life may be free, but that doesn’t mean they won’t take time, sweat, and perseverance to acquire. To ascertain which talents are worth the investment, one Quora reader posed the question : “What are the hardest and most useful skills to learn?” “You can be the most disciplined, brilliant, and even wealthy individual in the world, but if you don’t care for or empathize with other people, then you are basically nothing but a sociopath,” writes Kamia Taylor .

On Monday, Clemson University and the University of Alabama will face off for the second year in a row at The College Football Playoff National Championship Game Presented by AT&T. And though fans will be deciding whether to cheer “Go Tigers!” or yell their loudest “Roll Tide!” on January 9, these two teams aren’t the only ones to inspire some serious school pride.

The giant pharmacy services company’s stock was pummeled in the second half of 2016. On the other hand, CVS Health’s dividend yield is now the highest it’s been in years.

Palo Alto stock was trading only slightly below where it had started the year ahead of its fiscal first-quarter 2017 results in late November. And even then, those results technically exceeded earnings expectations for the 10th consecutive time; revenue climbed 34% year over year, to $398.1 million , and adjusted earnings per share grew 61.8%, to $0.55 .