Affordable housing is an elusive concept. Money writers, myself included, have a bad habit of separating out individual life choices and analyzing them, as if they happen in isolation. Like my recent series detailing the number of counties in America where average incomes can’t support average-priced homes. I did the [Keep reading]
A low credit score can’t give you a heart attack, but it might mean you’ll have one soon, a new study has found. There’s now another reason to keep track of your credit, and it actually can be a matter of life or death. Researchers at Duke University have found a [Keep reading]
People are freaked out about drones being used by Peeping Toms, when the real privacy risk could be much more “innocent.” And embarassing. An Australian woman was recently photographed by a drone subbathing nude in her private backyard. Bad enough. But the photo was taken by a real estate agency [Keep reading]
Malicious software that researchers think has been used by hackers to attack critical infrastructure systems, such as trains and power plants in Ukraine and Poland, has been found in similar American systems, the U.S. government says. And while there is no sign hackers have used the software — called BlackEnergy [Keep reading]
Housing market expert and chart lover Logan Mohtashami has a clever way of making big points with little facts. So here’s one he tapped onto my Facebook page recently. IBM 431K workers 200 Billion market cap Facebook 7,335 workers 200 Billion market cap You follow? That’s efficiency in action. It’s possible [Keep reading]
You couldn’t get nine out of 10 Americans to agree that the sky is blue. So it’s remarkable that nine out of 10 say they have lost control over how their personal information is collected and used by corporations, a new survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center has found. [Keep reading]
There’s “employed” as defined by government statistics. And then there’s “employed,” but not even working enough hours to pay the rent. Roughly five percent of U.S. workers are stuck in part-time jobs when they really want full-time work. It’s a problem that’s not going away, even as the headline [Keep reading]
I once wrote a story about a man who, crushed under student loan debt, said he wish he’d gone to prison rather than college. “(College) was the biggest mistake of my life,” Hernan Castillo told me. “At least I would have learned a trade or two and started being independent [Keep reading]
You can probably rattle off the risk factors for heart attacks, stroke, cancer, and other causes of premature death with ease: smoking, poor diets, lack of exercise, and so on. Here’s one you probably haven’t considered: Loneliness. I’ve been discussing restlessness and American culture for a few months now in [Keep reading]
Facebook took a step today towards addressing perhaps the most common gripe its users have — control of the “news feed” that users see when they log in. Users choose which friends and pages are eligible to be in the news feed, but Facebook’s algorithm decides what actually appears there. [Keep reading]
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