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The Best Investment You Have: Your Credit

When it comes to investments, there is no end to the commentary about the best ways to do it. Often there is substantial risk....
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Would Gawker Be Able to Punk President Trump?

On the Sunday before Super Tuesday, Donald Trump did something that would have been a serious misstep for any other campaign, and yet...
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Are Hackers Already Outsmarting New Chip Credit Cards?

Visa has released data showing adoption of Visa chip cards by U.S. banks and merchants is gathering steam. But the capacity for Europay-Mastercard-Visa (EMV) chip...

How Tim Cook Is Securing Steve Jobs’s Legacy with Encryption

Steve Jobs understood what people want. His insistence on making hard things easier — for instance, using a personal computer — was an essential...
Debt

5 Sad Facts About Americans’ Savings

Spend less than you earn. It’s not a complicated concept, but in reality, saving is anything but simple. Americans have struggled for years to...
Money

How to Use Your Extra Day of Income This Leap Year

If you’re an hourly worker, February could potentially give you an extra day of earnings this year, thanks to Leap Year. That means, for...
Scam Alert

Tax Email Scams Are Up 400%

Filers beware: There’s a good chance there’s a tax scam email in your inbox. According to the Internal Revenue Service, there’s been an approximate 400% surge in phishing...

Why Hillary Clinton’s Emails Matter This Year

There is no shortage of punditry about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s homebrew server, and the resulting fallout, aka “Emailgate.” Whether you read...
Identity theft

5 Ways Identity Theft Totally Screws Up Your Life

Identity theft is on the rise in the United States — at least reports of identity theft are way up — and oftentimes, people...
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Worried About Another Recession? Here’s Something You Can Control

Some analysts and economists are worried there might be an economic contraction or recession in the very near future. Stock markets are falling, oil prices are...