Personal Finance

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Income Inequality Is Not a Real Problem

American capitalism is doing its job in providing opportunity to all -- and deserves credit, not criticism, excessive...

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Forty Million Credit Cards Stolen from Target

If you have shopped at Target since Black Friday, your credit card number may have been stolen by...

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Tax Deductions You’ll Miss in 2014

A number of deductions are expiring in 2013 and will not be available to lower your 2014 tax...

Long-Term Unemployment Benefits to Expire Under New Budget Deal

1 million people receive their last unemployment check on Dec. 28, and 850,000 people now will receive nothing...

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Cable Consolidation Still Leaves Programmers in Charge

Rumors are swirling about a consolidation of some sort between Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Charter Communications, the...

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Underwater Mortgage Insurance, Because Negative Equity is Becoming Widespread

Over 20% of all homeowners with a mortgage still owe more money in their mortgage than their homes...

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$3.6 Billion Lost to Fraud is IRS’s Improvement from the Year before

For tax year 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued $3.6 billion in potentially fraudulent refunds.

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Divergence is Another Word for Opportunity

When I look at the strong gains in the domestic equity market over the past year, I tend...

Controlling the No Control Frustration

Controlling the No Control Frustration If you feel frustrated, perplexed and downright pissed off about the shenanigans going...

The Fed is out of Control

“The establishment of Central Banking removes the checks of bank credit expansion, and puts the inflationary engine into...