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Vanessa Mcgrady

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Your government slashed consumer protections. Now what?

Without the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, new platforms and services may escape a regulatory eye

06.03.2025 9

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"This is our time": Economic blackout targets injustice

The one-day boycott, set for Friday, aims to remind consumers and corporations of the power of the purse

25.02.2025 20

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Don't get scammed after a disaster

"It's really pretty dangerous out there," California fire victims say

09.02.2025 6

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Stock market strategies for nervous investors

Investing in the market has its own set of tried-and-true practices

29.01.2025 10

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Shopping scams are using AI to up their game

Scammers "put a super jet-powered engine behind some of the old tricks"

11.01.2025 4

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Were you bad with money this year? You’re not alone

Nadia Vanderhall made some money missteps in her early adulthood that compounded and reverberated for years. Young and out of college, she accepted...

27.12.2024 4

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Etsynomics: Like to make stuff? Here’s how to sell it

Everyone starts their art journey somewhere, and for me, that was at a neighborhood ceramics studio a little more than a year ago. I became...

16.12.2024 5

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Problematic to perfect: Navigating the minefield of workplace gifts

A couple years ago, I gave a terrible work gift. My agent’s team had done a phenomenal job of championing me in a negotiation and I thought a...

09.12.2024 40

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The connection correction: How to stop loneliness shopping

The first Christmas after my divorce, I handed my toddler daughter to her father without complaint. I wanted her to continue a tradition of...

06.12.2024 3

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"All bets are off": How Trump's economy could affect your money

Presidents don't have the ultimate say in how the economy performs. Take a look at the stock market surge that followed Donald Trump's victory and...

20.11.2024 20

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Ways to lower your mortgage payment

The real estate market crash of 2009 created a wake of chaos. People were laid off from their jobs and couldn’t afford their mortgages, which were...

28.10.2024 10

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How to lower your mortgage payment

These steps could help reduce your monthly bill

28.10.2024 4

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Spousal financial abuse can be a slippery slope

When they lived together, Stephanie and her husband maintained separate bank accounts, splitting everything 50/50. In 2001 they married, continuing...

23.10.2024 3

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Helene, Milton put insurance industry to the test

With untold numbers of properties wrecked by major hurricanes Helene and Milton in recent weeks, homeowners across the Southeast will be in close...

12.10.2024 7

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A cheat sheet for saving on college costs

My parents seemed surprised that in September 1986, my first day of New York University had arrived; nobody had saved even a token amount for...

22.09.2024 4

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Curious about adding solar power to your home? Watch out for scams

I'm a relatively eco-conscious person. I'm all about the green economy, I save packing materials like a World War II grandma and I have logged time...

29.08.2024 2

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