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Brian Martucci writes about credit cards, banking, insurance, travel, and more. When he's not investigating time- and money-saving strategies for Money Crashers readers, you can find him exploring his favorite trails or sampling a new cuisine.
You know all about cash-back credit cards and travel rewards credit cards . You probably have a few in your wallet. Every rewards credit card does basically the same thing: return a small portion of your spending back to you…
Fed up with unfriendly and fee-hungry banks, many customers are moving their cash to credit unions — not-for-profit deposit institutions that share many similarities with for-profit banks, but tend to be more customer-friendly. According to the World Council of Credit…
Everyone aspires to good credit. But not everyone is so fortunate, at least not right at the moment. Bad credit can strike for any number of reasons: overwhelming debt loads, missed payments, foreclosure, bankruptcy. Often, it has more than one…
If you want to invest in cryptocurrency, you need to think about how you’ll secure your holdings. Cryptocurrency is like cash, which means whoever has it can spend or transfer it — or steal it. There have been a handful…
The H1-B visa program draws thousands of highly skilled immigrants to work in the United States each year. Buoyed by career success, many H1-B visa holders go on to become legal permanent residents and eventually U.S. citizens. They buy cars…
I bought my first two cars used. The first, a downmarket European import purchased in a private-party transaction, was about 7 years old and had about 70,000 miles on the odometer. It took me five or six years, and thousands…
Everyone born in the United States receives a unique, nine-digit Social Security number at birth. Without this identifier, you can’t enjoy many of the perks that American citizens and legal residents take for granted, including retired and disabled worker benefits. Of course, you also…
“Working ever-longer hours to bring in more cash might make your life more comfortable, but it isn’t going to make you happy,” writes Charlie Sorrel in a provocatively titled Fast Company article, “Science Says You Should Quit Your Demanding, High-Paying…
Are you a planner? I’m not. Until my wife convinced me to join a shared household calendar, I more or less lived by the seat of my pants. I’ll admit that spontaneity extended to my personal finances. Though I’ve always…
The government’s role in the employer-employee relationship has been a source of contention for legislatures for centuries. Few would dispute that free markets and limited government have produced one of the greatest economic systems in history. However, at the same…
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