I literally can’t conceive of a world without banks. They give us a safe place to store our cash, facilitate fast electronic payments to people and businesses thousands of miles away, and lend us money to finance big purchases we…
If you’re like most people, you spend around 40 hours each week working to earn a living. You may not enjoy it much, but at least it’s a fair trade-off: your time in exchange for the money you need to live….
Sometimes it appears that everything just keeps getting more and more expensive. That’s certainly the impression you’d get from reading the news – every time you open the paper, it seems, there’s another story about how to cope with the…
When you make a new acquaintance, often the first question you’re asked is, “What do you do for a living?” This line makes sense as an icebreaker because work occupies such a central place in our lives. If you work…
Americans waste a lot of money – and we know it. In 2016, Hloom surveyed 2,000 Americans and found that over 80% admit to wasting money in one way or another. Dining out was the biggest culprit, with more than two-thirds of the respondents…
If you’ve ever owned a car, you know how expensive auto insurance can be. According to AAA, a medium sedan costs an average of $1,106 per year to insure – about 15% of the total cost of owning the car….
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 16 million Americans — more than roughly 1 out of every 10 workers in the United States — are self-employed. That number includes business owners, both small and large, and people who work…
The Affordable Care Act has been around since 2010, but there are still millions of Americans living without health insurance. According to the United States Census Bureau, over 27.5 million Americans, including more than 77,000 children, lacked health insurance in 2018….
When Louise (not her real name) went to visit her 98-year-old grandmother, she was surprised to find several cheap candles sitting on her table. Her grandmother explained that she’d bought them to help out a charity she gave to regularly,…
Think for a minute about the biggest purchases you’ve made in your life. If you’re a homeowner, this list will include your house itself and probably some major repairs you’ve made to it, such as replacing the roof or a…
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