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I tested the best Mint alternatives, and this is my new favorite money app
With Mint shutting down, I needed a new budgeting program for tracking my finances. The app I found - and have been using for four months now - is better than Mint ever was.
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It's 2030, and digital wallets have replaced every card in our purses and pockets
OpenWallet, now joined by Microsoft, looks to the near future when digital wallets replace traditional wallets in the same way debit cards replaced checkbooks.
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Key Questions to Ask a Buyer's Agent When Purchasing a Home
When buying a house, asking the right questions is crucial to making informed decisions and ensuring a smooth home-buying process.
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Why Zillow Zestimates Are Not Accurate in Massachusetts
Zillow, a leading real estate marketplace, offers a popular feature known as "Zestimate," an estimated market value for homes across the United States.
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대부업대출 잘되는곳, 조건, 후기_money lending business
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Air Miles Cash Rewards: Get More Cash Rewards with Air Miles Cash
I recently found out about a new way to use my Air Miles account that I wasn’t aware of. Air Miles Cash rewards offers you a chance to redeem your miles points for cash off every day purchases that you make at participating retailers.
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How drinking too much sabotages your finances
In personal finance, "the latte effect" is shorthand for daily, frivolous expenditures that sneak up on you over time. If you just stop buying triple caramel lattes at Starbucks every afternoon, you can save X each year. And if you choose to invest those funds, you could earn Y each year instead.
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Investment Manager Explains Why 99.5% Of Americans Can Never Win
I sit in an interesting chair in the financial services industry. Our clients largely fall into the top 1%, have a net worth of $5,000,000 or above, and — if working — make over $300,000 per year. My observations on the sources of their wealth and concerns come from my professional and social activities within this group.
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Record Number Of Americans Renounce US Citizenship For Tax Reasons
The year 2013 is poised to set a record for the highest number of expatriations ever by US citizens. The total figure so far this year is 2,369, which is one third more than the 1,781 who left in the whole of the previous record year of 2011.
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Mike Lathigee Vancouver Investor
Mike Lathigee an investor of Vancouver and Las Vegas real estate shares his knowledge on global economics at a local level.
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American Express to Pay $75.7 Million for Unfair Marketing
American Express Co. (AXP) has agreed to pay $75.7 million to settle claims from U.S. financial regulators that it used deceptive marketing practices to sell protection services to credit-card customers.
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Great Reset: Unprepared: The world braces for retirement crisis
Many of those facing a financial squeeze in retirement can look to themselves for part of the blame. They spent many years before the Great Recession borrowing and spending instead of saving.
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It Is Expensive to Be Poor
Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can't save up enough to move on.
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How will Obama's new myRA retirement plan work?
In his State of the Union address, the president proposed a new way for Americans to create a nest egg. There are some catches.
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Were you charged $9.84? It might be fraud
Be on the lookout for a recent $9.84 charge on your debit or credit card. It might be part of a massive, worldwide scam. Thieves are using stolen payment cards to make small charges that could easily go unnoticed. The charges are attributed to generic-looking websites such as EETsac.com, CEWcs.com and EduAcc.in, which claim to offer customer support services.
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Screwed by Square
When Square came out with their portable credit card reader, I was very excited to adopt this technology. In exchange for a little under 3% of each transaction, they provided a way to turn my cell phone and my iPad into credit card machines. Portable, convenient, reliable. What’s not to like?
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Are the Suburbs Making People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?
Most people living paycheck-to-paycheck aren't actually poor. They make a decent amount, and they have a decent amount of wealth. And, believe it or not, this makes sense. Now, you might expect that people without any liquid savings like cash or checking accounts wouldn't have any illiquid savings like housing or retirement accounts, either.
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Georgia teen can't return $31,000 he got in bank error because he already spent it
Georgia teen Steven Fields might not be able to return the $31,000 he got in First Citizens Bank mistake because he's already spent most of it.
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The Growing Perils of the Cashless Future
We're finally on the brink of the cashless society that futurists and other have been forecasting for years. The average consumer owns at least two credit cards and early adopters have begun ditching plastic for virtual wallets. Even businesses that used to rely heavily on cash — think taxis, food trucks or even craft fairs — can now go cashless, thanks to new technology like Square.
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People Are Seriously Talking About Banning The Banks — And It's Not As Crazy As It Sounds
Economists have begun seriously discussing the idea of banning banks. That seems ridiculous and far-fetched, but the idea might not be as crazy as it sounds. But before we get to the idea, there's something important that needs to be addressed, which is that people tend to have a gross misconception about what a bank does. The typical person probably thinks about a bank the way it's depicted in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life."
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