They Avoided Financial Ruin After Traumatic Brain Injury
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View ArticleCBS: Dish Viewers to Lose Network if No Deal by Thursday
Filed under: Company News, Media, Entertainment Industry, Consumer Issues Darren Michaels//CBS via Getty ImagesDish Network customers may lose access to CBS programming, including "The Big Bang...
View ArticleSprint Lures AT&T, Verizon Customers With Half-Price Deal
Filed under: Telecommunications, How to Save Money, Deals, Cell Phones Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images When you're No. 3, you've got to try harder. So Sprint (S) is wooing AT&T (T) and Verizon...
View ArticleNeilsen: Americans Watch Less TV, Stream More
Filed under: Media, Internet, Consumer Issues, Music & Entertainment Nathaniel E. Bell/APA scene from Netflix's "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey and Jackie Sharp. NEW YORK -- Americans are...
View ArticleDialing for Donations: Where Does Your Money Really Go?
Filed under: Charity, Consumer Ally, Personal Finance, Nonprofit Organizations, Consumer Protection Getty Images 'Tis the season for giving. But when the phone rings and it's a charity calling to get...
View ArticleNeeding a Cappuccino Fix, Martha Stewart Plans Coffee Shop
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View ArticleMarket Wrap: Dow, S&P Set Records on ADP Jobs News
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View ArticleI'm a Secret Santa Who's Given Away $750,000
Filed under: Holiday Shopping, Charity Pressmaster/Shutterstock By Marcus Eisner In its "My Secret Money Life" essay series, LearnVest hands over the mic to people who've chosen to keep a financial...
View Article4 Important Last-Minute Money Moves for 2014
Filed under: Retirement, Mortgages, Personal Finance, Tax Deductions, Planning Constantin Stanciu/Alamy With less than a month to go until 2015 begins, you're running out of time to get everything done...
View ArticleAsk Stacy: Where Can I Find Help With Credit Card Debt?
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View ArticleMerry Christmas! Gas Price Decline Is Like a Tax Cut
Filed under: Energy, Gas Prices Nati Harnik/AP Most Americans have received the equivalent of a significant tax cut. No, Congress did not suddenly agree to do something, and no, President Obama did not...
View ArticleHow I Fund My Holiday Budget With Credit Card Rewards
Filed under: Holiday Shopping, Credit Cards, Shopping, How to Save Money shutterstock The average U.S. shopper expects to spend about $718 on holiday gifts this year, according to Accenture's 2014...
View ArticleChances Are You'll Be in the Dog House Over a Present
Filed under: Retail, Holiday Shopping, Gift Guides Getty Images "Oh, I'm sure you'll pick something wonderful" has to be one of the scariest phrases someone can hear from a significant other during the...
View ArticleWhen Gas Prices Drop, America Goes on Vacation
Filed under: Travel, Vacation Planning, Spending, This Built America Shutterstock / paffy By Evelyn Cheng When gas prices fall, the U.S. consumer spends more in the stores. That much is clear. But when...
View ArticleBipartisan Bill Would Widen Federal Help for Disabled
Filed under: Health Care, U.S. Government, Health Insurance, Social Security, This Built America Getty Images By Hope Yen WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to allow Americans with disabilities to open...
View ArticleObama Offers Candor, Insights in Q&A with Top CEOs
Filed under: U.S. Government, CEOs, Barack Obama, Internet Fraud, This Built America Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media By Jim Kuhnhenn WASHINGTON -- At times blunt, at others obliging, President Barack...
View ArticleCaterpillar CEO: Immigration Key to Economic Growth
Filed under: Job Market, Industry News, CEOs, This Built America Scott Eisen/APCaterpillar Chairman and CEO Douglas R. Oberhelman By Hailey Lee Company growth depends on a healthy economy, which is...
View ArticleWhy Caring for Older Adults Is Getting Costlier
Filed under: Retirement, Personal Finance, Retirement Living Getty ImagesWith a growing number of aging family members in need of assistance, more Gen Xers and millennials will be acting as caregivers....
View ArticleL.L. Bean Struggles to Meet Demand for Iconic Boot
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View ArticleFast-Casual Eateries Are Hot... But a Good Investment?
Filed under: Food & Beverage, Restaurants, Stocks, IPOs, Investing christianz1969/Flickr Americans lately have been transferring their love of fast-casual restaurant food to stocks of companies in...
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