Watching athletes stand on the podium, sniffling as their national anthem plays, it’s easy to get swept up in the romance of winning a gold medal. It’s also easy to forget that television has the bad habit of compressing time for viewers. Michael Phelps makes winning gold medals look easy. [Keep reading]
Sometimes, a glitch is more than a glitch. Sometimes, that glitch grinds much of the country to a halt. And it gets the company involved hauled in front of Congress to explain itself. Recent airline techno-disasters at Delta and Southwest — and United last year — have made one thing clear: Systems [Keep reading]
Americans are doing a little bit better at saving money in an emergency fund — but women, some minorities, young adults, and the less educated are still woefully unprepared for a financial emergency, according to a new study. Overall, there have been marginal gains in the number of Americans who [Keep reading]
People often ask me: “Why travel with your dog?” It’s a hassle. It severely limits the hotels I can stay at, and usually costs me more. It slows me down. It’s hot. I have to stop so he can pee. It makes dinner meetings almost impossible. Well, any normal meeting [Keep reading]
Go on vacation. Your heart needs it. Really. In the long list of studies I’ve shared extolling the virtue of holidays and warning about overwork, this one is the most important: A massive study published last year showed that employees who put in more overtime had much higher likelihood of heart [Keep reading]
The switch to chip-enabled credit cards last year came with a serious deadline: New rules went into effect in October making merchants more liable for fraud. As is obvious to everyone who’s swiped when they should have inserted their card at a checkout line, the changeover hasn’t gone as smoothly [Keep reading]
SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL BETWEEN NEW YORK AND SEATTLE — America, we need to talk. And not on Facebook. I mean, really talk. I’ll have many thoughts to share from this summer’s cross-country road trip (#RoadTrip201^), but one is screaming at me so loud I have to spit it out immediately. While [Keep reading]
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]
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