It comes as a sudden realization a week before payday and, sometimes, a text or email from the bank or the hideous embarrassment of having your debit card declined in …
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If making money was easy, everyone would be rich. The fact that the majority of people in the United States are poor tells you something about investing. It also tells …
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If you’ve ever lived in Texas, you get used to the same repetitious weather forecast in the summer. Hot, continued hot, followed by a warming trend toward the end of …
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The national unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since 2008, at just four point nine percent. That’s so low that some economists are calling it full employment. That means …
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For most of us, our view of housing is rooted in the 1950s, as are our views of working and retirement. The 50s shaped so much of our thinking that …
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According to recent surveys, sixty four percent of Americans don’t have a thousand dollars in savings for emergencies. To cover that debt two-thirds of America would have to either borrow …
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The view of housing most people carry around with them has its roots in the 1950s. In those days housing was frequently collocated with jobs and factories that no longer …
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It’s hard to believe today that in the summer of 2014, not even two whole years ago, that the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil sat at $115. …
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Sometimes there’s no way to put a happy spin on the economic news and this is one of those times. The Royal Bank of Scotland issued this simple assessment of …
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Modern food production is nothing short of a marvel of scale, convenience and efficiency and, worldwide, employs more than a billion people. The scope food production industry is matched only …