Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Learn how Constructive Total Loss works in insurance, when repair costs exceed an asset's insured value, and explore examples and implications for policyholders.

Loss leader pricing is a business strategy that can perform several functions. Examples of loss leaders include selling low-cost computer printers that need expensive ink, and discounting hot dog buns ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Logan is an experienced writer, producer, and editorial leader. As a journalist, he ...

Les Masterson is a deputy editor and insurance analyst at Forbes Advisor. He has been a journalist, reporter, editor and content creator for more than 25 years. He has covered insurance for a decade, ...

A common fear people have about investing is that it’s gambling. They think they would lose on average. But that’s not the case and investors who lose often have a common trait – they don’t know when ...

A profit and loss statement, also called an income statement, lists the revenues and expenses of a business during a given period and give a restaurant owner the bottom line on whether it is making ...

The recent increase in genomic data is revealing a novel perspective of gene loss as a pervasive source of genetic variation in all life kingdoms. Gene loss depends on gene dispensability, which in ...

Short-term and long-term memory function differently, and different issues may affect each one. While occasionally forgetting things is a typical sign of aging, some memory issues may indicate an ...