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Gift cards can solve holiday problems, but be selective
All I want to give or get for Christmas is cash.
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Don’t let your parents guilt trip you into bailing them out
They took care of you. Now it’s your turn.
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This holiday season, use your smartphone to spend less
If I can’t stop you from the spending madness that is about to take place, at least be…
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Watching after your retirement nest egg can get scary
Financial planners once used the metaphor of a three-legged stool to talk about funding your senior years.
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Trump’s election does not bode well for the CFPB
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of the financially stressed middle class. To see how true he…
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Tormented by self-inflicted financial stress? Let it go …
At the beginning of the year, I chose a theme song to help with my New Year’s resolution…
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Happy couples will establish their financial ‘house rules’
I’m feeling like the Cubs right now.
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Are you doing enough to protect your privacy?
It hadn’t happened in a while, so I guess it was time.
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New agency needs sufficient clout to protect consumers
They say insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
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Author’s tips will help make Social Security work for you
When it comes to Social Security, the sky is not falling.
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Don’t risk toying with a suspected fake IRS scam artist
One of the most insidious scams involves criminals impersonating IRS officials and threatening people with arrests or lawsuits…
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Critics say proposals may curb access to credit. Let’s hope so.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has detractors.
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Tying the knot shouldn’t mean breaking the bank
Few personal occasions in our lives come with so much anticipation that common financial sense becomes less common.