Articles filed under Economy
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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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Surprise! Homes are more affordable now than in the pastApr 08, 2018 1:07 am - Anyone looking at rising housing prices - especially people who would like to buy their first home now - would assume that houses are less affordable than ever before. H...
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Analysis: How to lose a lot of money in the stock marketApr 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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Deepest Trump country has finally recovered jobs lost in the recessionApr 08, 2018 1:05 am - Deepest Trump country has only recently recovered the jobs it lost because of the Great Recession. We define "Trump country" as the broad confederation of rural areas, m...
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Say goodbye to the 0 percent auto loan eraApr 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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A personal financial catastrophe can have grave health consequencesApr 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 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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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...
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Same family income, same street, but the black boy still grows up to earn lessMar 25, 2018 1:00 am - Virtually nowhere in America do black boys grow up to earn incomes equivalent to white boys raised in the same neighborhoods by parents with comparable wealth and educat...
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Why reverse mortgages are a harder sell nowMar 25, 2018 1:00 am - The millions of Americans who haven't saved enough money for retirement still have a potential safety net: their home equity. But recent changes to reverse mortgages mea...