They’re back.
In the past few months, it appears, shadow banks, financial firms that make loans but aren’t actual banks, seem to be making a come back. In case you have forgotten about these things already, shadow banks are financial firms, like hedge funds or money market funds or even insurance companies, that aren’t real banks – no …
These days, it’s hard to get through a week that doesn’t include headlines about a guy getting slammed for saying, doing, or tweeting something dumb about women. The slip-up du jour comes from a New Zealand businessman who claimed women get paid less because they take time off for babies and period pain. Oh yes he did.
Alasdair …
Also, one series of insights has it that you should manage your money similarly to the way you golf—or rather, the way a good golfer golfs.
In a vote-off on Facebook, fans of Panda Express named Orange Chicken as the restaurant’s top selection, and the restaurant chain is offering single servings of the dish to all customers free of charge tonight, Friday, June 24, starting at 9 p.m. Follow the link to print out the coupon needed to get your freebie.
Twitter and Facebook. Facebook and Twitter. You may love, or loathe, one app more than the other. Or you may love – or loathe – both equally. Here’s what’s indisputable: they are the two social media titans of our age.
Yet, …
“If you’re Captain Ahab, there’s only one way this story ends: Moby Dick kills you. Every good trader I know is infinitely humble.”
Throw the conventional wisdom for buying and selling cars out the door. Right now, because the supply of new cars is limited, the prices of new and used cars alike are soaring, and decent gas mileage is increasingly more …
Many people get sucked into the belief that having more money is the key to a better life. But it’s not.
More than 17 million American adults and 7.5 million children currently have asthma, and the rates are rising. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.3 million more people were diagnosed with asthma …
Things are not looking so good for this year’s college graduates. Unemployment among those under 25 is at a record-high, they have more debt than any graduating class in history, and starting salaries are plummeting. That’s …
Lea Woodward co-founded Kinetiva with her husband, Jonathan, to help entrepreneurs find their own path in life. Her projects have since garnered international media attention. Woodward talks about how she went from working a …
If you’re wondering why you can’t find a job, don’t blame your underwater mortgage.
That’s the finding of a new study by economists Colleen Donovan and Calvin Schnure, which attempts to get at the roots of our stubborn joblessness problem. There are a lot of economists speculating that homeowners who can’t afford to pay off their …
