The news is bad when it comes to credit card debt but buried in that news is a glimmer of hope for the future. First here’s the bad news. According …
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There’s been a lot of good economic news lately and 2014 is shaping up with better returns than even the most optimistic forecasts predicted. After the heady days of 2012 …
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There’s good news today on the labor front. NBC News correspondent Chelsea Clinton, who was paid a reported $600,000 for a handful of stories filed since 2011, has left the …
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My fellow RT contributor, Bruce Haring, has an interesting piece on how Goldman Sachs managed to buy themselves out of criminal prosecution and jail time. The settlement is for Goldman’s …
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Things must be bad in Honduras. After all, so many people are leaving there and heading north that it can’t be a great place to live. Right? Well, yes and no. …
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The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting you have one and, for America, it’s time we collectively faced up to our addiction to debt. For a brief …
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If you were at all connected to the real estate industry in 2005/2006 you knew something wasn’t right. While it might have been hard to foresee the collapse of the …
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The economy and personal finance are moving targets and that makes conventional wisdom a rear-facing metric. One topic that goes a long way back in conventional thinking is the concept …
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According to a recent Bankrate survey nearly a third (26%) of Americans have nothing saved for retirement. Zip. Zero. Nada en absoluto. A number that’s consistent with other surveys that …
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Beyond our changing climate, politics, race relations or the economy, Americans are obsessed with one thing: losing fat and looking good. The Holy Grail for doing so has long been …