I’ll be doing some “Back to Basics” stories for the folks at Insedia.com. The series starts today with perhaps the most basic — but most important — element of personal finance in our credit-driven economy. Here’s my quick-and-dirty guide to dealing with your credit report. What is it and where [Keep reading]
To understand some of the difficulties facing America’s families today, you need to examine only one shocking data point: Day care for a single child under age four costs more than college and just about the same as monthly rent. At least that’s according to a recent report by [Keep reading]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Keep that in mind as you read stories about possible hacking in this year’s presidential election. They have reached a fever pitch as deadlines for recounts are fast approaching. The facts are these: Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump by a relatively small [Keep reading]
And now for some good news. Fereshteh Forough reminds you about all the wonderful things technology can make happen. This is a story about a coding bootcamp doing things, enabling human beings, in a way that would have been impossible just a few years ago. Women in Afghanistan have bleak [Keep reading]
Roughly half of American workers would make their money in the “gig” economy if they had their way, a new survey suggests. And already, about 60 million Americans do. Or, maybe it’s only a few hundred thousand people who are gig workers now. It all depends on how you count. [Keep reading]
Since the day it was created, Republicans have talked about dismantling or defanging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). With the surprise election of Donald Trump as the next president, and continued Republican control of Congress, the GOP will certainly have that chance. It won’t be easy, however. The brainchild [Keep reading]
Sometimes, it’s easy to miss the forest through the trees, and it’s easy to miss the big picture through the data analysis. The story of the 2016 Presidential election is a simple one — Democrats somehow lost 10 million voters between 2008 and 2016. Contrary to the popular narrative du [Keep reading]
Here’s a new kind of ID theft you have to worry about: App ID Theft. Retail apps are cool again, but be careful what you click on. The New York Post revealed recently that Apple’s App Store is getting crowded with fake impostor apps. They appear to be legitimate retail [Keep reading]
The seemingly endless election season is over, and now the real work begins: What will a Donald Trump presidency mean for your money? The folks at Grow asked me to have a story on this natural topic ready for early this morning — well, inside baseball, I had two stories [Keep reading]
In case you haven’t noticed, polls are in trouble. They missed Donald Trump’s rise to the Republican presidential nomination. They missed Brexit. They badly missed the 2014 Congressional elections. And so on. Gone are the glory days — during the first Clinton era – when the science of polling was [Keep reading]
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