Finance
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Is automatic withdrawal the way to curb student loan defaults?
Feb 17, 2019 5:17 am - What if student loan payments were treated like Social Security taxes - automatically withheld from a person's paycheck? Fewer people would fall behind and risk having t...
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Companies are also flunking retirement planningFeb 17, 2019 5:10 am - Plenty has been written about American workers' failure to plan adequately for retirement. Their employers seem to be doing an even worse job. Only 1 in 10 large employe...
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How minimalism can declutter your finances, tooFeb 17, 2019 5:00 am - Christian Matney, 22, and his wife, Aubry, 23, haven't let their youth hinder them from big financial goals. The Austin, Texas-based couple — content creators at YouTube...
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The glass ceiling is even higher in the penthouseFeb 17, 2019 5:00 am - The glass ceiling is even higher in the penthouse. Women earn enough on their own to qualify for 1 percent status in just one of every 22 top-earning households, new res...
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'Retail arbitrage': How people are making money reselling clearance items on Amazon
Feb 16, 2019 5:00 am - With their two young kids in tow, Juston and Kristen Herbert drove to a Target near their home outside Scottsdale, Arizona. It was time to get to work. The Herberts were...
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Mortgage rates dip to their lowest levels in more than a year
Feb 14, 2019 12:00 am - After soaring to seven-year highs in November, mortgage rates have been on a steady decline the past 2½ months and this week sank to levels not seen in more than a year....
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IRS says average tax refund is down 9 percent this year
Feb 14, 2019 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The average tax refund is down 9 percent this year, the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday. Tax filing season opened two weeks ago, so the data onl...
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Your cybersecurity plan is only as strong as your weakest linkFeb 13, 2019 12:00 am - "I'll appreciate it if you make this an overnight delivery and email me the tracking #." This was the closing line of an email that one of our bankers recently received ...
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Record 7 million Americans are 3 months behind on car payments, a red flag for economy
Feb 13, 2019 12:00 am - A record seven million Americans are 90 days or more behind on their auto loan payments, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday, even more than during the...
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Gender can no longer be used to calculate auto insurance rates in some states
Feb 11, 2019 12:00 am - California has become the seventh state to ban auto insurers from using gender as one of the factors that they can use to calculate the rates customers pay. But as regul...