The vast majority of citizens feel that it’s never OK under any circumstances to cheat on your income taxes. But, in a survey conducted last year by the IRS, the percentage of people thought it was acceptable to cheat “as much as …
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Celeb Schwag: Famous People Get $100K Worth of Free Stuff Annually
Designer clothes, iPads, car leases, vacation packages, baby clothes, diapers … If you’re a celebrity, you’ll receive all of this and more for free, without ever having to endorse or even request anything.
Class Warfare: Study Shows Tensions at 20-Year High
Tensions in the U.S. between rich and poor are at a 20-year high, according to a new study from Pew Research. This conflict now tops the discord between blacks and whites, young and old, and immigrants and the native-born.
Billions Wasted: Do Gift Cards Make Sense When So Many Go Unused?
Retailers and restaurants love gift cards—so much so that they load them with bonus cash in order to sell more cards. This makes total sense once you realize how often gift cards aren’t used at all, and how all those cards add …
Talk About ‘Old Money’: Old Folks Got Richer, Young People Much Poorer Over the Years
We’ve all heard of how the rich have gotten richer over the past several decades—the “great divergence,” as it’s been called, in which a small portion of the population has garnered an increasingly outsized percentage of net …
Maybe Millionaires Aren’t So Bad? Most Support Higher Taxes on the Rich
In a survey of Americans holding at least $1 million in investments, more than two-thirds of respondents (67%) say that taxes should be raised on people earning $1 million and up annually.
Shocker! The Rich Expected to Go on Big Shopping Sprees This Holiday Season
The average consumer is expected to spend less on the winter holidays this year. Yet it’s anticipated that overall holiday spending will rise slightly compared to 2010. How could this be? While middle-class shoppers scale back, …
How Marketers Would Brand Occupy Wall Street
To build a brand—or a movement—that is successful over the long haul, marketing experts say that it is essential to establish definable goals, spread a simple, clear message to the masses, and have leaders to oversee the …
Welfare Soars in Ritzy Suburbs
Americans Overwhelmingly Pessimistic About the Economy, Says TIME/Money Magazine Survey
It’s not often that the majority of Americans agrees about, well, pretty much anything. But based on a joint series of surveys conducted on the behalf of TIME and Money magazines, there’s near unanimity among Americans that the …
145 Money Tips: Get Free DVDs, Avoid Bad Restaurants, Save Money & Mother Nature at the Same Time
There are also money lessons to be learned in this roundup from millionaires who hate fees as much (or more) than you and I, high-profile pawn shop owners who are wise enough to walk away rather than lose money on deals, and …
The Sad, Sorry State of the Middle Class
One needs only to browse the headlines, or perhaps observe the bustling action at your neighborhood thrift store, to realize that America’s middle classes have been faring poorly lately.
