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Apple earnings: Is the worst over yet for iPhone?

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Apple reports its second quarter earnings results after the bell on Tuesday. The key question for the company: is the worst over yet?

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Applying for and managing financial aid for college  is a high-stakes process for students and their families.
Could this stop students from going to college?

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Applying for and managing financial aid is a high-stakes process for students and their families. Navigating this task successfully can mean the difference between going to college or not, but the complexity and time-sensitive nature of the process stacks the decks against some students. Eligible students always ask three simple questions: How much money am I getting? When am I getting that money? Why haven't I gotten my money yet?

And these days they're asking one more question: Why can't it be as easy to get this information as it is for me to check on the status of an online retail order? "What we know about this generation of college students is they want to be able to get help when it is convenient to them, and so that means 24/7," says Melissa Smurdon, director of financial aid at Butler University.

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Nicole Engelbert, Oracle vice president of higher education development, notes that students are coming to college with more needs, adding "They want convenience and a more consumer-friendly experience, but unless we make it easier, students will be unsuccessful in their quest to obtain enough financial aid to fund their degrees."

To make things simpler for the 15,000 students who apply each year and the 1,200 who ultimately enroll, Butler is rolling out Oracle Student Financial Planning Cloud, an application that shows students exactly what the cost of an education is at the university, which scholarships and grants they've been offered, and how much they'd have to take out in loans-all through easy-to-use mobile and web interfaces.

"Being able to make this process more navigable is incredibly beneficial," Smurdon says. "We have students who leave the process every year without getting through it. Those are potential students who don't even get as far as a financial aid package to discover if Butler is a possibility."

Currently, when prospective Butler students receive their financial aid notification, it's a piece of paper that outlines their next steps. But simply giving a potential student a list doesn't mean they'll complete all the tasks. "It's basically the difference between getting something in an envelope and thinking, 'Yeah. I've definitely got to do this at some point.' as opposed to going into an app and having it all there, all the time, and knowing exactly what's left to be done," Smurdon says. "When students are awarded a loan, Oracle Student Financial Planning Cloud tells them what they need to do to accept that loan."

Students can accomplish all of those tasks online, in a seamless, integrated experience. "Oracle Student Financial Planning Cloud delivers a far more frictionless financial aid experience for students so they can make more informed financial decisions," says Engelbert. The end result, she adds, is higher student satisfaction and improved student outcomes.
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Beyond benefiting the students, once Butler rolls out the Oracle application in the fall, it will be able to use the huge amount of new student data that's generated to plan not just for the year ahead, but four years into the future. "That four-year view also helps us look at demand for aid in future years as well as the tuition revenue that is generated, and then project forward," Smurdon says.

The application will also free Butler's financial aid administrators-14 people handle about 22,000 student interactions each year-to spend more of their time counseling students and their families, making sure they understand the financial implications of going to college and helping them decide whether Butler is the right place for them.

Smurdon notes that her staff will find that key processes are far more straightforward. "Something like estimating financial aid eligibility is built into the product, which means a counselor could start to counsel a student from an estimated aid perspective far earlier in the application process," she says. "Cloud isn't about shiny technology or a slick delivery model," says Engelbert. "It's about helping institutions spend more time focusing on what truly matters."
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Particularly in higher education, advocates for new cloud technologies can face resistance that doesn't exist in for-profit enterprises. Smurdon and her colleague Michele Thibodeau, senior information systems analyst, offer some recommendations for smoothing that path:

Use your first cloud project as a jumping-off point. "Financial aid, by its nature, is incredibly complex," Thibodeau says. "By taking financial aid into the cloud, we're moving the hardest piece of the student system. It will make our subsequent forays into the cloud so much easier. Other departments will be looking at this and saying 'You know, maybe this whole cloud thing isn't so scary.'"

Make time for change management. Train your people and evangelize the benefits of the new system, of course, but also make sure that other departments understand what you're doing and how it might impact them. Says Thibodeau, "We shared a demonstration of the product and the vision behind its adoption but we also needed to make sure they understand that they may not have as much IT support during this implementation period."

Plan for the day after. When Smurdon first saw the demo of Oracle Student Financial Planning Cloud, she was thinking of all of the new student-centric initiatives her team could take on because they would have the time to do them. "Being able to work with students-that is why financial aid professionals get into the job," Smurdon says. "Not so they can spend their time creating reports and sending reminder letters."

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Financial Aid Is Too Complex-Butler University Will Use The Cloud To Simplify It

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Applying for and managing financial aid is a high-stakes process for students and their families. Navigating this task successfully can mean the difference between going to college or not, but the complexity and time-sensitive nature of the process stacks the decks against some students.

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Eric Trump says lawsuit against Deutsche Bank

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Eric Trump says lawsuit against Deutsche Bank

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Eric Trump tells FOX Business’  Stuart Varney says thats Democrats have no legitimacy and are being driven by political motives.
Could this cause more conflicts between the government?

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Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump told FOX Business' Stuart Varney that the subpoenas issued by congressional Democrats have no legitimacy and are being driven by political motives.

"All it is, it's presidential harassment," he said on Tuesday. "They know my father is doing an unbelievable job. They have no candidate out there, so let's subpoena everybody."

President Trump, three of his children -- Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka - and the Trump Organization filed a lawsuit Monday in New York's federal court against Deutsche Bank and Capital One to prevent the Democratic-controlled House from obtaining their financial records.

House Financial Services and Intelligence committee chairs Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif, called the lawsuit "meritless" in a joint statement.

The subpoenas issued seek information on the personal finances, businesses, and private information of the president and his family dating back decades.

"If you read how vague the subpoenas are, it's any family member, any child, any business, any entity going back any period of time having nothing to do with government at all," Trump said.
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Trump said the purpose of the lawsuit is to make a clear distinction that Congress has no grounds to subpoena the family and its businesses.

"Let's just throw a net out in the river and let's hope something swims into it," he said about the House Democrats' actions.

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Eric Trump says lawsuit against Deutsche Bank, Capital One just 'presidential harassment'

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Trump Organization Executive Vice President Eric Trump told FOX Business' Stuart Varney that the subpoenas issued by congressional Democrats have no legitimacy and are being driven by political motives. "All it is, it's presidential harassment," he said on Tuesday. "They know my father is doing an unbelievable job.

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McDonald's sales rate has went up 5.4% since they released their new Donut sticks.
Could this be a worldwide thing or just in America?

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donut sticks and bacon sent mcdonald's sales through the roof - cnn

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Donut Sticks and bacon sent McDonald's sales through the roof

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Donuts Sticks and bacon were a sweet and savory success for McDonald's last quarter.

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Amazon announced that they have posted its first round of job Opens a New Window listings for its new second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia  to create 400 opportunities this year.
Imagine how many unemployed people can get this job.

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Amazon announced it has posted its first round of job listings for its new second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and is "on pace" to create 400 opportunities this year.

"We posted our first few job listings this morning," the e-commerce giant said in a blog post late Monday.

Of the 400 jobs promised this year, Amazon posted five full-time opportunities, which include three openings for a "Global Category Manager," which will be tasked with building a strong "strategic business direction."

"While the number is small, these employees will help build the foundation of our workforce and workplace," the company added.

Amazon pulled out of its plan to build a second headquarters in New York City in February following a flood of opposition from city and state officials, but said it has "enjoyed a warm welcome" from the Arlington community and "strong support" from officials.

"The strong support from state and local government has allowed us to make significant progress towards establishing our presence here. We are ahead of schedule and on pace to create 400 new jobs this year and a total of 25,000 over the next decade plus," Amazon said.

The first building in its new northern Virginia headquarters complex will open this fall, with new employees moving into a temporary office space in June.
Here's a look at the first round of job postings: Global Category Manager (Three postings)
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DESCRIPTION: This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.
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DESCRIPTION: This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.

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Amazon started to hire for its new HQ2. Here's a look

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Amazon announced it has posted its first round of job listings for its new second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and is "on pace" to create 400 opportunities this year. "We posted our first few job listings this morning," the e-commerce giant said in a blog post late Monday.

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This article focuses on how cheap the real Game of Thrones house was because it was only $656,000.
Should the house cost more since it is a famous house?

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Ever dream of living like your favorite Game of Thrones characters?

Well, now someone's dream is a reality.

A 19th century castle in Ireland used to shoot exterior scenes during the HBO series third season just sold for less than a million dollars.

On Monday, Ireland-based Maison Real Estate announced Gosford Castle, a sprawling 15-bedroom estate in Markethill, Northern Ireland has been bought after several months on the market.

The castle, which also includes ten bathrooms, was listed last summer for 500,000 pounds or $656,000.

Maison real estate agent Jeremy Baird confirmed to FOX Business that castle was used for exterior scenes throughout the third season of HBO's hit series 'Game of Thrones.'

"The scene of the execution of Rickard Karstark, who is beheaded by Robb Stark in the episode "Kissed by Fire," also took place here," Baird said.

The Gosford Castle was originally built for The 2nd Earl of Gosford and was designed by London architect Thomas Hopper. During the Second World War, the castle was used to accommodate troops and prisoners of war.

However, the estate was later purchased by the Ministry of Agriculture to create a Gosford Forest Park. Years later it fell back into military use before being run as a hotel from 1983.

Then in 2006, the castle was bought by Gosford Castle Development Limited group, who put forward a $5 million proposal to restore the building into 23 luxury residences.

According to Maison, the restoration was "undertaken by artisans and craftsmen with a focus on retaining the character and historic integrity of the castle."

However, the portion of the castle that was sold has only been partially developed in places and converted into six luxury apartments.

Maison did not immediately comment on how much the castle was sold for.

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A real 'Game of Thrones' castle just sold and it was pretty cheap

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Ever dream of living like your favorite Game of Thrones characters? Well, now someone's dream is a reality. A 19th century castle in Ireland used to shoot exterior scenes during the HBO series third season just sold for less than a million dollars.

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This article focuses on Ballmer gaining $5.1 billion after combining with strong micro soft and Facebook.
Should more people invest in Facebook and/or Micro soft?

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Mark Zuckerberg's net worth jumped over $4 billion today.
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The net worths of big tech's blue chip billionaires jumped Thursday as soon as stock markets opened. The gains came after both Facebook and Microsoft reported better than expected revenue growth on Wednesday after the market closed. Altogether the value of Facebook and Microsoft shares held by 27 billionaires rose $7.4 billion, thanks to the strong earnings reports.

The biggest gainer by far was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the largest individual shareholder in the social network he founded in a Harvard dorm room 15 years ago. Zuckerberg's fortune rose $3.9 billion on Thursday to $71.8 billion.

Despite concerns over its platforms' data security and privacy, Facebook's quarterly revenue exceeded $15 billion, a 26% year-over-year increase. The company estimates that 2.1 billion people use one of its services every day. Its share price on Thursday rose 5.8% to $193.26.

Facebook also disclosed a $3 billion to $5 billion legal charge from the FTC, which it claims dragged its diluted earnings per share down 55%. The penalty seems to be tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which sparked a national conversation about the social media giant's usage of user data. But investors seemed to shrug off that news.

"We're making significant investments in safety and security while continuing to grow our community and our business. This quarter once again, shows that we can do both," said Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's billionaire chief operating officer. The 22 billionaire Facebook shareholders' stakes are collectively worth $5.7 billion more as of 4:30 pm ET Thursday than at the market close on Wednesday.

The day's second-biggest gainer was Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who holds more shares in the software giant than any other individual. His fortune jumped $1.2 billion, to $48.2 billion.

Microsoft's earnings shattered expectations, with diluted earnings per share up 20%. Its quarterly revenue climbed 14% to $30.6 billion, largely on the back of its commercial cloud business, which alone has jumped 41% year-over-year.

Steve Ballmer is Microsoft's biggest individual shareholder.
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Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 as its 30th employee and served as CEO from 2000 to 2014. He bought the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers from fellow billionaire Donald Sterling in 2014 for $2 billion. Ballmer has put $2 billion into a donor-advised fund focused on addressing poverty in America.

He's not Microsoft's only big winner today. Cofounder and former CEO Bill Gates sold or gave away most of his shares years ago but still enjoyed a $400 million boost. According to Forbes' real time wealth tracker, he's now worth $101 billion, one of just two centibillionaires alive, beaten only by Jeff Bezos. (Bezos's net worth could skyrocket during trading Friday in the wake of a strong quarterly earnings report from Amazon today.)

Overall, the nine members of Forbes' list of the World's Billionaires who have significant stakes in Microsoft-a verifiable "who's who" of investors that include Gates, Ballmer, Reed Hastings, Charles Simonyi, Penny Pritzker, Mark Stevens, Herbie Wertheim, Robert Duggan and Reid Hoffman -saw their fortunes rise a combined $1.7 billion.

Not every billionaire won after Wednesday earnings. Elon Musk lost over $650 million of his net worth, with Tesla facing a bigger-than-expected $702 million loss. "This was one of the most complicated quarters I can think of in the history of the company," Zachary Kirkhorn, Tesla's new CFO, said on a conference call with analysts.

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Zuckerberg, Ballmer Gain Combined $5.1 Billion After Strong Microsoft, Facebook Earnings

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The net worths of big tech's blue chip billionaires jumped Thursday as soon as stock markets opened. The gains came after both Facebook and Microsoft reported better than expected revenue growth on Wednesday after the market closed. Altogether the value of Facebook and Microsoft shares held by 27 billionaires rose $7.4 billion, thanks to the strong earnings reports.

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Since 2016 the US labor board has been projecting the fastest declining rate.The focus on this article is basically explaining that we are losing more jobs everyday.
By 2026 there are going to be 7 more jobs that we will loose.
Could everyone be out of a minimum wage job by 2030?

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If you're searching for the perfect career or thinking about switching fields, you may want to do your homework first.

While U.S. employers added 196,000 jobs in March - the 118th month of straight gains - and average hourly earnings rose by 4 cents ($27.70), that doesn't mean all occupations are seeing success.

In fact, some industries are actually seeing a rapid decline in terms of employees. And some states, in particular, are being hit harder than others. According to a study released earlier this month by personal finance website GoBankingRates.com, West Virginia, Alaska, New Mexico, Wyoming and Louisiana are among the worst states for job hunting.

Since 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has been projecting the fastest-declining occupations in the U.S. by 2026. Earlier this month, the agency updated its statistics to give job seekers a more recent look at how certain industries are doing - in terms of salary and projected growth.

Overall, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that employment will be up more than 7 percent in 2026. The agency previously said health care, health care support, construction and personal care fields would be amongst the fastest-growing occupations from 2012 to 2022.

Of the 818 occupations the bureau tracks, the agency found that locomotive firers, which receive an average annual salary of $63,820, will decline by -78.6 percent by 2026. Respiratory therapy technicians, which earn around $51,000, will also see a rapid dip of about -56.3 percent over seven years. Parking enforcement workers, averaging $39,840 per year, will also flounder - with the agency expecting a -35.3 percent decline in 2026.

Here's a list of the 25 occupations (in order) that will be hit the hardest by 2026.

1. Locomotive firers

2. Respiratory therapy technicians

3. Parking enforcement workers

4. Word processors and typists

5. Watch repairers

6. Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles

7. Foundry mold and coremakers

8. Pourers and casters, metal

9. Computer operators

10. Telephone operators

11. Mine shuttle car operators

12. Electromechanical equipment assemblers

13. Data entry keyers

14. Postmasters and mail superintendents

15. Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers

16. Coil winders, tapers, and finishers

17. Grinding and polishing workers, hand

18. Timing device assemblers and adjusters

19. Switchboard operators, including answering service

20. Prepress technicians and workers

21. Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

22. Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders

23. Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

24. Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

25. Legal secretaries

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Top 25 fastest-disappearing jobs in the US

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If you're searching for the perfect career or thinking about switching fields, you may want to do your homework first. While U.S. employers added 196,000 jobs in March - the 118th month of straight gains - and average hourly earnings rose by 4 cents ($27.70), that doesn't mean all occupations are seeing success.

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The article detailed how Trump is trying to use his presidency to become more rich.Since he ran for president his workers at Trump tower dropped 27%.Trump only owns 41% of his own business the Trump tower.
Should we be worried that Trump can barely take care of his own business?

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W hen Donald Trump opened Trump Tower in 1983, it marked a seminal moment in American retail, as six stories of glitzy shops like Harry Winston and Cartier beckoned luxury buyers who strode past a live pianist and a 60-foot indoor waterfall. "We got the highest rents ever, anywhere," says former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res, standing in the pink atrium four decades after she helped build it.

Times have changed. Gazing around, almost all the tenants are now gone. The hollowing-out began years ago, but it has only gotten worse since Trump entered politics. Nike abandoned its attached flagship store earlier this year, and Ivanka Trump's accessories business closed up shop as well. What's left is basically nothing but Gucci, Starbucks and The Donald, wall-to-wall. Trump Bar sits atop Trump Grille, next to Trump Café, the Trump Store and Trump's Ice Cream. It is unlikely Trump pays himself rent for any of them. "Things are all different now," Res says.

President Trump in the Oval Office in September 2017.
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That difference includes profits. Net operating income dropped 27% between 2014, the year before Trump announced his run for president, and 2017, his first year in the White House. When the real estate mogul descended the escalator to launch his campaign, in this very building, no one could have predicted the chain of events that would lead to this point. Even among those who gave his moon-shot presidential bid a chance of success, the assumption was that Trump would dump his assets before taking office.

By refusing to divest, Trump raised an unprecedented question: How would the most divisive presidency in modern American history affect a company built on the president's persona? Forbes has been working to answer that question since the moment Trump got elected, interviewing nearly 200 colleagues, partners and industry observers. While the experiment continues to unfold, in real time, the early results are in. Much as he's trying-and he's definitely trying-Donald Trump is not getting richer off the presidency. Just the opposite. His net worth, by our calculation, has dropped from $4.5 billion in 2015 to $3.1 billion the last two years, knocking the president 138 spots lower on the Forbes 400.

Three factors are at play. Much of that decline is due to deeper reporting, which revealed, for example, that the president had been lying about the size of his penthouse. Some of it is due to larger market forces. Trump owns commercial space at a time when e-commerce is decimating brick-and-mortar retail, shaving more than $100 million off his fortune-and no amount of bully-pulpit Amazon-bashing will change that.

But the third factor comes from how Trump the president affects Trump the brand. Those familiar with him saw his 2016 run as a surreal marketing strategy, and Trump has said as much, telling Fortune way back in 2000, "It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it." Since his unexpected ascent to the White House, Trump has tried to leverage the trappings of the presidency to benefit his commercial projects, from visits to his golf courses to hosting summits at Mar-a-Lago to launching a new hotel-licensing business aimed at his voters. (The Trump Organization denies the licensing business has to do with politics.)

"My father made a tremendous sacrifice when he left a company that he spent his entire life building to go into politics," counters Eric Trump, who now comanages the Trump Organization on behalf of the president, in a statement to Forbes. "Everything he does is for the good of the American people-he has zero involvement in the Trump Organization and quite frankly to suggest otherwise is outrageous." (Eric Trump himself, however, told Forbes shortly after the inauguration that he would provide the president bottom-line updates "probably quarterly.")

Either way, Trump's mixture of politics and business has proved to be a net loser for him so far. In further polarizing the country, he has also further polarized his business-to the tune of an estimated $200 million hit against his net worth. Understanding how that has happened offers a fresh window into the state of Trump Inc.-and Trump's America.

n May 2016, a dozen or so golf course appraisers settled in at Trump National Doral, the president's 643-room Miami mega-resort, for a few days of seminars and golf. At the time, Trump was steamrolling through the Republican primaries while bashing Mexicans, Muslims and even the pope. So it was no surprise when, inside his resort, the conversation turned to how the tumult was affecting Trump's golf businesses.

A top Doral executive, of all people, was willing to provide an answer. According to three witnesses, he told the room of appraisers that business at the resort-whose revenues were as big as Trump's ten other U.S. golf courses combined-was suffering because of the campaign. Historically, Doral had drawn much of its clientele from the Northeast, where Trump was and is especially unpopular. "At the time there was a lot of talk about comments that Trump had made," says Jeff Dugas, who attended the event. "Nobody was extremely surprised."

Big names like Nascar and the PGA Tour also pulled business from the club. After Trump won the election, Doral lost 100,000 booked room nights, according to someone who knows the resort's business. While revenues for the Miami luxury hotel market jumped 4% overall in 2017 according to the data analytics firm STR, Doral's revenues fell by an estimated 16%. And that was before a deranged gunman wandered into the lobby earlier this year, draped an American flag over the front desk and began shooting at the chandeliers before he was apprehended by police.

Overall, revenue at the president's U.S. golf properties fell by an estimated 9% in 2017. It goes beyond politics-guests now endure metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs. "It's not a country club experience," a source familiar with Trump's golf business says. "It was captivating at first, but it has become tiresome." Not even the chance to rub shoulders with a sitting president can overcome this problem: Revenues appear to be down at the three courses Trump visits most often.

A similar scenario has played out in Trump's traditional wheelhouse: luxury residential real estate. The president still holds roughly 500 condos, co-ops and mansions, all with their own complications, in terms of both hassles and branding. He has 37 units worth an estimated $215 million in midtown Manhattan. Prices for condos in Trump Tower have fallen every year since 2015, when Trump declared his candidacy, and are an estimated 33% below their highs. Similar trends are playing out a few blocks away at Trump Parc East, where prices are down 23%, and at Trump Park Avenue, where they have dropped 19%.

In Chicago, values of Trump condos have crept downward, the opposite direction of the overall market. "People bought into the building based on the brand being synonymous with luxury," says Cyndy Salgado, a real estate broker who once worked for the Trump Organization, selling condos in the Chicago tower. "Now many people feel that the brand represents divisiveness, embarrassment and questionable morals." All told, the shift in perception has erased an estimated $50 million from the value of his residential units in Chicago and New York.

On the Caribbean island of St. Martin, Mario Molinari, a real estate agent, recalls trying to show a Chinese billionaire a villa a few months ago. The seller, he says, was Donald Trump, who was offering 11 bedrooms, an outdoor bar and a private tennis court for $16.9 million. But when they got to the gate, the president's property manager told them they needed background checks to go inside, which typically take a couple of days to process. "It's too small for me," the billionaire responded, miffed. More than a year after the place went on the market, Trump still hasn't sold it.

Such weakness seems to have infected the Trump brand across the board. After multiple bankruptcies, Trump adroitly turned his business toward real estate management and licensing, slapping his name on other people's buildings, ties, steaks and even a urine test-allowing him to make money while others take all the financial risk. But partners at three Trump-branded hotels (Toronto, Panama, New York City's SoHo) have taken the president's name off their projects, which helps explain why politics has dragged that segment of the Trump hotel empire down about $30 million, by Forbes' estimates. Meanwhile, many of his licensing customers, including Macy's and the mattress-maker Serta, fled in the early days of his abrasive campaign-and the president's company doesn't seem to have landed a single new deal since. In 2015, Forbes valued Trump's product-licensing operation at $23 million. It's now down to a mere $3 million. "He's so polarizing that people are afraid to do business with him," says Jeff Lotman, who runs the licensing company Global Icons. "He has significantly tarnished the brand."

Headaches in the luxury market could, in theory, be offset by Trump's newfound popularity with the larger, less affluent MAGA set. Four months after their father took office, Eric and Donald Trump Jr. announced a new business venture to bring lower-priced Trump brands to hotels in Middle America. Filings released months later indicate that the majority owner of this venture is none other than the president himself, with a 77% stake, positioning Trump to profit from his political stardom.

But not much has come of it. The Trumps signed deals to brand four hotels in Mississippi, but those agreements generated only $27,000 last year. They told reporters there were as many as 35 other deals in the works-none of them have panned out so far.

rump's business has some bright spots. A few blocks from the White House, at the Trump International Hotel, Trump fans hobnob with cable news stars and Cabinet secretaries. The place turned a $2 million profit in the first four months of 2017, far exceeding the Trump Organization's expectations. A chunk of that money comes from various GOP organizations, which have pumped more than $1.3 million into the hotel since it opened in fall 2016, according to Federal Election Commission data. Despite what seems a violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, designed to keep presidents free from foreign financial interest, the governments of other nations are welcome too. Everyone from Kuwaiti officials to the prime minister of Malaysia has reportedly spent money there. And lobbyists working for Saudi Arabia disclosed that they ran up a $270,000 tab in just six months.

In terms of condo sales, Trump sold one in New York to a woman named Angela Chen, just a month after he took office. Chen paid $15.9 million, $1.8 million more than her downstairs neighbor shelled out for a similar apartment a year earlier. The deal sparked conflict-of-interest concerns because Chen is apparently the head of a business called Global Alliance Associates, which claims to use its network with the "highest levels of government officials" to help companies expand into China.

Presidential provenance is also proving lucrative. After Trump made Mar-a-Lago world famous, the club is said to have doubled its initiation fee to $200,000. Fallout from the president's response to the deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville reportedly prompted roughly 20 organizations to yank events from the club, likely costing Trump over $1 million in revenue. Nevertheless, Forbes estimates, Mar-a-Lago is now worth $160 million-$10 million more than it was before it became the winter White House.

The same goes for the president's penthouse in Trump Tower. Although declining prices in the building have likely hurt its value, the 11,000-square-foot apartment became a historic landmark the moment Trump won the presidency. Forbes figures the election could have added $10 million to any potential deal.

This phenomenon also extends to the value of Trump's Boeing 757, which became a backdrop for his campaign rallies. Some plane brokers think it could be worth double the roughly $20 million it would fetch if anyone else owned it ( Forbes estimates a more conservative $6 million presidential premium). Eric Roth, who customized the interior of the plane for Trump, says, "What's a baseball worth? About $3. What about if Babe Ruth signed it? It's not $3

anymore."

Some of the presidential profiteering appears more direct: On the day he assumed office, Trump took the unusual step of immediately launching his reelection campaign. Donor money kept flowing, and Trump's companies have kept charging rent to the campaign. The result: America's first billionaire president has turned more than $900,000 of donations into revenue for himself, without putting up a dime.

A s long as he's president-and refuses to divest his business holdings-Donald Trump will be able to boost his fortune in ways no other businessman can. Three days before Christmas last year, Trump sat in the Oval Office to sign the most significant tax reform legislation in decades. "This is something I'm very proud of," he said, clutching a black marker. "Great for our country, great for the American people."

Great as well for Donald Trump. The president famously refused to release his tax returns, but the new bill clearly benefits him. A Forbes analysis shows that Trump could save about 10% on business income. Based on Trump's 2005 tax return, which leaked shortly after the real estate mogul took office, that could mean as much as $11 million annually.

Other policies, which went into effect with far less fanfare, may also bolster his fortune. Take tariffs. Higher steel and aluminum prices make it more expensive for developers to build. For someone like Trump, who owns buildings but hasn't done much construction recently, that raises the barrier to entry for competitors. His immigration policies, which appear to be raising the cost of construction labor, could have a similar effect. Those two factors are "very favorable to a guy who owns hard assets," says Dave Rodgers, a real estate analyst at financial firm Baird.

And while Trump promised not to do any new foreign deals while in office, cutting off a source of growth, opportunities will be waiting once his presidency ends. In the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Kazakhstan, Trump's ex-business partners felt empowered to move ahead with potential projects, making it clear they are prepared to pay him down the road. "The tower will be ready for the Trump mark," the president's former partner in Georgia told Forbes last year, "if the Trump mark is ready to come back to the tower." And Trump has not forgotten about his business: He asked about the Georgia project in a meeting with the country's prime minister last year, according to the partners.

For now, though, Trump's presidency remains a net loser for him, which seems ironic. In not divesting, he set himself up so that his actions, and those of people who engage with his businesses, present perpetual conflicts of interest-or the appearance of them. Meanwhile, if he'd liquidated, paid capital gains tax on his entire fortune and created a blind trust to invest it all in the booming stock market, Trump would be $500 million richer than he is today-without the headaches.

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W hen Donald Trump opened Trump Tower in 1983, it marked a seminal moment in American retail, as six stories of glitzy shops like Harry Winston and Cartier beckoned luxury buyers who strode past a live pianist and a 60-foot indoor waterfall.