Starbucks and Wal-Mart are looking a lot more like banks lately. Starbucks just announced a new debit card that sounds a lot like an airline miles card, while Wal-Mart is about ramp up its cash-back and other benefits on some transactions run through its plastic. What’s in it for these big [Keep reading]
Feel like you’re bouncing around between jobs? Have no fear, you are hardly alone. A typical young adult in the U.S. has held an average of 7.2 jobs by age 28, new research shows, which is roughly equivalent to having one new employer each year. The study, released Friday by the U.S. [Keep reading]
Part of an ongoing series, Women in Tech. Dr. Dena Haritos Tsamitis is one of the most powerful voices in the world of technology, and one of the most accomplished. She helped found Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab, among the first organizations designed to encourage cybersecurity research sharing among schools, private industry, and government. [Keep reading]
About a month ago, I was excited to hear from a John Oliver / Last Week Tonight producer looking for help understanding specialty credit reports. Oliver’s show provides fantastic, entertaining TV stories about the serious (and admittedly) dry topics I’ve covered for years: payday loans, student loans, etc. So I was happy that [Keep reading]
All you tax procrastinators dreading this weekend: I’m about to give you some good news. You can procrastinate for one more weekend! Tax filing date is NOT April 15 this year. It’s Monday, April 18. Really. Perhaps I shouldn’t have said anything. After all, thanks to the tax ID theft [Keep reading]
Here’s all you need to know about the U.S. economy: It’s a great time to be a waiter or bartender. With there being companies such as Silven Recruitment out there, it comes as no surprise to find that the hospitality industry is one that many people want to be a [Keep reading]
It’s no surprise that consumers don’t like debt collection companies very much. It is a surprise, however, that complaints against them keep mounting, even after federal regulators sue firms for the very things consumers complain about — trying to collect on debts that don’t exist, calling at odd hours, contacting [Keep reading]
In good times and in bad. In sickness and in health. In Bull and Bear markets. Wall Street gets paid, no matter what. The people who manage your money, and most critically, your retirement, get their 1 or 2 percent every year. Even when you lost one-third of it, as [Keep reading]
Here’s a list of affordable cities that should be familiar to you by now: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Omaha. But here’s a list of U.S. cities that are rapidly becoming less affordable: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Omaha. In other words, the secret is out. The good news is, many of these [Keep reading]
March Madness? What March madness. Why do we like betting on march madness? We all like to think the annual college basketball tournament is about amazing upsets, but it’s not. In the same way, we like to think that investing is about picking great stocks. It’s not. People who think [Keep reading]
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