One of the most common recommendations for using a credit card successfully is to pay off the balance in full every billing cycle so you avoid interest charges. Just about everybody knows that — but that doesn’t mean everyone does it. In fact, despite some modest improvements in credit card [Keep reading]
Never had this happen before: When I tried to email a company accused of scamming a consumer to ask for a comment, the company immediately tried the same scam on me. Read on… — She was accused of check fraud, and theft by deception. She was told that she owed $4,526, [Keep reading]
By now you’ve probably heard of RFID blockers — those wallets, purses and other gadgets offering protection from hackers who can pluck your personal information out of thin air. RFID, or radio frequency identification, chips are growing in popularity. But there’s something you need to know about those blockers before you buy them. The rise [Keep reading]
When people say they own their home, it’s usually a half-truth at best. Often, a bank owns the home they live in — most of it, anyway. Still, Americans have a lot of real money tied up in their homes — on average, $150,506, according to a new report by [Keep reading]
Americans are terrible at taking vacations, and that’s a shame, because they aren’t helping their companies or themselves. People are just less productive in summer, for a whole host of reasons. So you might as well hang out at the beach anyway. Americans wasted a record-setting 658 million vacation days [Keep reading]
We’ve written a lot recently about the disappearing starter home. A combination of rising prices, aggressive investors, and flat incomes are turning America into a nation of renters … and making things very hard on young people just starting out. But there are still communities where plenty of starter homes [Keep reading]
Baseball has long celebrated cheating, but electronic cheating just sent a former team front-office worker to prison for nearly four years. Former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa, who earlier pled guilty to using old passwords to access a former team’s scouting database, was sentenced to 46 months in jail on Monday. Correa broke [Keep reading]
Rana Foroohar’s new book, Makers and Takers, is a first-class takedown of the way many American firms make money today. The book’s subtitle – The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business – lays out the sad paradox. Some people make money by making things. Others make money [Keep reading]
When I started researching age discrimination earlier this year, I thought I understood the problem fairly well. I had no idea. I had no idea how much the law favors corporations trying to dump older workers; and I had no idea how much casual age discrimination exists. I knew you [Keep reading]
There’s been a scary increase in successful ransomware attacks against large organizations this year. Specifically, hospitals have found themselves at the mercy of hackers who demand ransom payments to unlock critical system files. Recently, there have been signs that these criminals have moved on to universities, too. The University of Calgary [Keep reading]
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