Shoplifting costs U.S. businesses more than $30 billion a year, but studies show it remains an underreported crime — and …
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Q&A: Geneen Roth, Author of ‘Lost and Found: Unexpected Revelations About Food and Money’
The author of New York Times bestseller Women Food and God lost her entire life’s savings in the Bernie Madoff scam. Since then, Geneen Roth has come to realize an ugly truth: For years, her relationship with money had been just as unhealthy as her relationship with food. She always wanted more of both, and yet no matter how many …
Q&A: The Spendthrift Bachelor’s $1,000-a-Month Budget Challenge
Plenty of people survive on a monthly budget of $1,000 or less. But when you’re accustomed to spending $4,000 or $5,000 a month without thinking too much about it, abruptly switching to a $1,000-a-month budget requires some serious lifestyle adjustments.
10 Questions: What Makes a Pasta Worth $26? Do Health Insurers Owe You a Refund? What Is Money Anyway?
For thoughtful, insightful answers—or at least discussions with some funny comments—about these and other pressing consumer issues, here’s a roundup of recent posts and stories. The list even includes a special bonus question: What’s the difference between a collection and junk?
Cheapskate Wisdom … About the Unassuming Millionaires in Your Neighborhood
“These people are not into status, they are not into designer brands.”
Best-Ever Valentine’s Day Gifts That Don’t Cost a Fortune
It is Valentine's Day. For desperate, procrastination-prone men everywhere, the clock is ticking. You might assume that expensive jewelry or a pricey night on the town are your only options. But, according to 10 women who understand value better than most—after all, they write about money and personal finance for their …
Personal Finance Guru Q&A: ‘The Ten Commandments of Money’ Author Liz Weston
Liz Weston, author of a new personal finance bible of sorts, issues this key point in as straightforward a way as possible: “Anybody with a high school education can figure out the basics of money.”
Personal Finance Guru Q&A: ‘Psych Yourself Rich’ Author Farnoosh Torabi
Next up in our personal finance guru Q&A series is Farnoosh Torabi, who doles out financial advice regularly on all the major morning talk shows, writes MoneyWatch’s Your So Money blog, and has a new book out called Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset and Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life.
Personal Finance Guru Q&A: ‘The Real Cost of Living’ Author Carmen Wong Ulrich
In the first of a new series of Q&As with personal finance experts, the TV host and author of Generation Debt offers her thoughts on everything from why she would never pay cash—or even put more than 20% down—when buying a house, to why she always pays top dollar for quality tequila.
Q&A: How to Get Through December without Spending Money
Is it possible to go a month without spending money? What if that month was budget-unfriendly December, when gifts are traditionally exchanged, traveling to see family and friends is mandatory—and oh yeah, you still have to feed and clothe yourself like any other month?
Q&A: Matthew Schifrin, Author of ‘The Warren Buffetts Next Door’
A new book profiles ten unknown, ordinary investors—including college dropouts, engineers, a former truck driver, a retired DJ, most of them without MBAs or fancy degrees. What makes these investors extraordinary, however, is that they’ve managed to do what the wisdom on the street says can’t be done by consistently pulling in amazing …
Q&A: ‘The Adventures of Unemployed Man’ Author Erich Origen
If you ever wanted to make sense of the bubble-riding, downsizing, outsourcing, debt-inducing, credit-crazy, middle-class-destroying era we’ve all just lived through—and in many ways, which we all continue to live in—a comic book will do the job as good as any. Hilarious, clever, very relevant, and remarkably insightful and …
