Laziness is one of humanity’s most powerful driving forces. It’s also perhaps the greatest insight from the field of behavioral science — or the one that’s been put to the most practical use, anyway. It goes by the fancy name “default bias,” and societies around the world are now using [Keep reading]
There are some things you can do in a podcast you can’t do with the written word. Here’s one: For this episode of Breach, we tracked down audio of the CEO of Equifax speaking at a business school in 2017. His words are tough to take knowing what we know [Keep reading]
ARCHIVE – August 4, 2011 Imagine being able to sit down in a bar, snap a few photos of people and quickly learn who they are, who their friends are, where they live, what kind of music they like … even predict their Social Security number. Now, imagine you could [Keep reading]
Congress once again hauled Equifax in front of a committee to testify about its 2017 hack on Thursday, and issued yet another report outlining a cascade of errors at the firm which led to the incident. The Equifax hack is the subject of our 6-week investigative podcast, Breach. Click here [Keep reading]
“This is, potentially, the motherload. The big one we’ve all been waiting for.” — Ron Lieber, The New York Times “Your Money” columnist. So begins our second season of Breach, which just dropped today. We begin with an episode titled “Why, Equifax?” — which means all the things you think [Keep reading]
Where can you buy a $1,000 TV for $2,169? Soon, at a Best Buy electronics store near you. The retail giant is poised to roll out a new “lease to own” program that will sound a lot like the Rent-A-Center or payday lending model to observers. It works similar to [Keep reading]
Why was Equifax hacked? Who was behind it? Who deserves the blame? And what should you do now? We’re asking all those questions, and providing most of the answers, in the second season of the Breach cast, dropping March 4. Six months in the making, it’s *almost* here. Together with [Keep reading]
It took more than four hours of questions aimed at credit bureau CEOs, but finally, after a marathon House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday morning / afternoon … the National Consumer Law Center’s Chi Chi Wu said what had to be said. “I’ve testified before Congress … six times,” [Keep reading]
When you’re suffering from constant financial stress — an anxiety-riddled state of being researchers now call “precarity” – you can’t be your best. Your family suffers, your health suffers, and your work suffers. And if your workers are worried about money, they’re going to make more mistakes on the job. [Keep reading]
You know you should invest for the future, but you are afraid of today’s market. Bad news seems to be lurking behind every corner, and uncertainty is …. the only thing that seems guaranteed. Should you buy now, or buy later? One good solution: Do both. CNBC and Grow recently asked [Keep reading]
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