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The duel between debt and income is spilling over into the retirement years for more and more people. At one time, it was common to have all the major bills…
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I went shopping for a cell phone the other day and found out I’m not as special as I thought I was. I have never owned one and for at…
Admit it. You’ve considered de-friending the person that challenged you to the Ice Bucket challenge on Facebook. The videos that are flooding your news feed are all apart of the…
Not sure you are aware of this, but the cell phone industry will pass a fairly significant milestone this year and there is a good chance I could be the…
When the bell rings to start a new school year, college students, especially the 70 percent using loans to pay for expenses, need to catch up on a few news…
The phone rang at Michael Hufnagel’s desk nearly every day for three years. Hufnagel is an accountant for a production company in California and phone calls are part of doing…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent a jolt through the for-profit college industry this week when the federal agency sued ITT Educational Services Inc. for predatory lending practices, saying it…
For most men, the goal of Valentine’s Day has not changed since the holiday was more or less invented by the Romans a few thousand years ago. The Romans called…
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