Passengers are used to hearing flight attendants give safety briefings and warn of the perils of using their smartphones below …
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Matt Brownell
Projections for holiday retail spending are watched closely every year, with consumer spending during the biggest shopping season of the …
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The Biggest Little City in the World is also the most in-debt city in America.
Reno, Nev., holds the distinct of …
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There’s nothing more expensive than spending money you don’t have. That, of course, is a lesson you might learn the …
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The list of questions you get asked at the checkout counter seems to grow every year. In addition to the …
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They say everything is bigger in Texas. But apparently that doesn’t apply to credit scores.
Credit reporting bureau Experian released its …
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When the Durbin Amendment took effect in October, capping the swipe fees that banks can charge retailers on debit card …
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Whether or not swipe-fee reform has hurt or helped consumers remains an open question, but there’s little doubt that it’s …
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The quintessential phishing scam goes something like this:
An email arrives in your inbox, purporting to be from a financial institution, …
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Retailers make fat profit margins on the extended warranties they sell on products, so there’s a little secret they probably …
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Matt Brownell – previously covered retail and personal finance for MainStreet.com, TheStreet's consumer news outlet. Now a business journalist based in New York City, his work has been featured on Fox Business, Yahoo, Newsweek and Bankrate.
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