Those new chip-enabled credit cards are working, says Visa: counterfeit card fraud dropped 26 percent in a year at merchants set up to accept the cards, Visa told me this week. You didn’t think criminals would stand still, did you? In a mad dash to squeeze every last dollar out [Keep reading]
(Learning about business can be fun! I’ll explain more below, but today I launch an exciting new series with friend, digital entrepreneur, and bar owner Dan Maccarone explaining what the bar business can teach you about your business. It’ll live on Medium, and here.) by Dan Maccarone and Bob Sullivan [Keep reading]
Claiming Americans consumers have been “set up to fail” by the short-term lending industry, federal regulators on Thursday issued sweeping new rules that would drastically alter the payday and title lending industries. Under the proposed rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, short-term lenders would have to verify borrowers’ ability to [Keep reading]
A billion useless people. No, maybe that’s generous. Billions, thanks to robots and artificial intelligence. The “rise of the useless class.” The end of work. And with it, the end of pay. There are the things that the world’s biggest thinkers are thinking about right now. It’s frightening how little [Keep reading]
Women and men feel very differently about the health of the U.S. housing market, a new survey suggests. Men are far more confident that buying a home (and possibly investing in residential window replacement Austin, new furniture, or a better oven to add to a new home), is a good [Keep reading]
You’ve got to hand it to Gene Marks, a consultant and author, for saying what everyone else has been thinking: that replacing loyal employees with younger, cheaper workers is the way American business gets done. In fact, says Marks in his provocative Fortune column, ” it’s the right thing to do. But is [Keep reading]
As recent college grads begin to enter the workforce this month, consider this: Workplace generation gaps used to pit 60-somethings vs 20-somethings. Not any more. Tech changes so fast that 25-year-olds have trouble communicating with 22-year-olds now. Sorry, Zoomers, but you’re kind over the hill now. (Join the club!) Analysts are [Keep reading]
A “debt collector” call can arrive at any time for just about anyone. Even if you’ve never missed a payment on a bill. There’s only one way to protect yourself: Know what questions to ask. Debt collector telemarketing scams are incredibly persistent because they work. “Debt collectors” can sound scary, [Keep reading]
Corporations hack people. They hack consumers, and they hack their own employees. Mere mortals don’t stand a chance when high-powered computers with finely-tuned algorithms attack them. Computerized cheating is among the most frightening developments of our time, and it should alarm you much more than it does. The latest frightening [Keep reading]
Can a debt collector contact family, friends, or co-workers in an attempt to find you? Yes, yes, and yes. But she or he can’t say very much. (This story first appeared on Credit.com. Read it there.) The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act offers consumers a wide set of protections about [Keep reading]
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