If you think journalists are terrible at what we do, please solve that problem the way you should any other. Do it better. Join us! Lord knows, we need all the help we can get. The good news is, you can do this today, right now, thanks to the digital world [Keep reading]
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There’s a courtroom drama playing out that’s likely to spark a Constitutional crisis during the first few days of the Trump Administration — and could lead to two people simultaneously claiming to be the director of a major federal agency. You’ll need a scorecard to follow along, so that’s what [Keep reading]
Free markets mean corporations and consumers are engaged in a constant arm-wrestling match over prices and rules governing marketplaces. When President-elect Donald Trump takes office, will the rules of this engagement change substantially? Already, Republicans are fighting hard to dismantle, or at least dis-empower, the nation’s newest federal consumer protection [Keep reading]
If this is the last act of Richard Cordray’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it’s a doozy. The bureau announced Wednesday it was suing Navient, formerly Sallie Mae, for allegedly deceiving student loan borrowers about their rights during repaying. The state of Illinois also announced it had sued Navient on Wednesday, [Keep reading]
It’s an old joke that’s quickly becoming reality for many student loan borrowers: “I’ll be paying off my student loans until I die.” During the past decade, there’s been a stunning rise in student loan debt owed by older Americans. The number of Americans aged 60 or older with one [Keep reading]
Next time you run to the grocery store for bread and milk, you might find yourself staying for a champagne tasting. Or seduced by Comice Pears. Or perhaps you’ll just stay home and cook the elicoidali pasta and mascarpone cheese from your Blue Apron box. The digital age has changed [Keep reading]
January is a good time to take stock of your career, and with the economy perking up, perhaps you should to consider making a dramatic change. After all, what’s more American than relocating for opportunity? But even as careers get shorter — the average millennial will have seven jobs by [Keep reading]
America’s housing market continued its staggering post-recession rise in 2016, as many regions surpassed their pre-recession-bubble highs. With interest rates finally rising, might some of those places be primed for a fall…or at least a pause? The list of U.S. areas that could be hurt most by rising mortgage costs [Keep reading]
Angry Starbucks customers keep writing me to say their bank accounts are being drained via the coffee giant’s popular mobile app, more than a year after I first reported the disturbing problem. Such a heist ruined Jenna Veeve Farag’s Christmas morning. “They were able to wipe out my checking account,” she [Keep reading]
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