Finance
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Bitcoin investors made money, but how to pay the taxes?
Apr 14, 2018 1:00 am - If you thought trading bitcoin was wild, try figuring out how to pay taxes on it. Cryptocurrency investors are wrestling with spotty records, tangled blockchain addresse...
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Your chances of an IRS audit are way down. But keep it on the up and up.
Apr 08, 2018 1:15 am - WASHINGTON - Just because the Internal Revenue Service is auditing the fewest tax returns in years, and just because the IRS has thousands fewer enforcement agents to lo...
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Analysis: How to lose a lot of money in the stock market
Apr 08, 2018 1:07 am - A 40-ish colleague approached me at my desk in the middle of the March market turbulence and announced that he was selling equities and buying bonds. Long pause. OK, I s...
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Say goodbye to the 0 percent auto loan era
Apr 08, 2018 1:00 am - Carmakers that used zero-percent financing offers to juice sales at the height of the American auto boom are starting to abandon them as rising interest rates lift their...
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4 habits kids need to learn to be smart consumersApr 08, 2018 1:00 am - Most financial literacy efforts in schools don't improve people's behavior later in life. That could be because we're focusing on the wrong things. Trying to teach teena...
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A personal financial catastrophe can have grave health consequences
Apr 08, 2018 1:00 am - Middle-aged people who suffer a massive and sudden loss of wealth also face an increased risk of death — similar to receiving a new diagnosis of coronary heart disease, ...
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Why you should freeze your child's creditApr 01, 2018 1:15 am - For years, identity theft expert Eva Velasquez warned parents that freezing their children's credit reports was difficult, problematic and probably unnecessary. Velasque...
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Why good drivers with poor credit pay moreApr 01, 2018 1:00 am - Car owners with poor credit can pay hundreds - if not thousands - more to drive than those with good credit. This plays out in two important ways: higher rates on car lo...
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Analysis: Warren Buffett's employees can't practice what he preaches
Apr 01, 2018 1:00 am - Warren Buffett, the most successful investor of our time, is a huge fan of low-cost index funds - funds that replicate a market index rather than try to outperform it - ...
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College left me in debt. I'm making sure my son can get a degree - without loans.
Apr 01, 2018 1:00 am - I graduated from college in 2006 with $89,000 in student-loan debt. With no family help, I relied on a blend of federal and private loans to earn the journalism degree I...