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Playing the lottery gives people the dream of becoming filthy rich overnight, and that is a lot more exciting than hard work year after year and having to save along the way.
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Annual charitable giving reached another annual record last year, and the bulk of the donations continued to be from individual donors.
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The question that many lottery players will ask is what they should do, or what they should not do, if they win a vast sum in the tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Many lottery players will be playing for a chance to win Friday night's $280 million Mega Millions lottery. This begs the question: what are you supposed to do or not do if you win?
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Total credit card debt at the end of last year had reached $919.1 billion, and at current growth rates, should wind up 2016 at roughly $1 trillion.
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Americans are expected to spend more than $14 billion on Father's Days gifts this year, the highest total in the 13-year history of an annual spending survey sponsored by the National Retail...
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Research shows that Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 incur more overdrafts than any other age group: an average of more than two per person annually.
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About 17% of Americans have, at one time or another, cosigned on a loan or credit card for someone else. The bad news is that 38% of cosigners had to pay some or all of the loan or credit card bill.
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Switzerland has overwhelmingly rejected a national referendum on a universal basic income. If it had passed, disaster would have loomed for Switzerland’s economy.
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The Mega Millions lottery has now reached a whopping $260 million annuity value for the June 7, 2016, drawing.
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Low pay, high housing costs (mostly rentals) and lack of education are among the hurdles that single mothers must overcome, and the hardest place to do that is in urban Honolulu, Hawaii.
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There have been 430 data breaches recorded this year through May 31, 2016, and that nearly 12.6 million records have been exposed since the beginning of the year.
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CoreLogic on Wednesday released its 2016 Storm Surge Report, which includes its latest analysis of the potential for damage from hurricane-caused storm surge along the Atlantic or Gulf coasts.
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Wells Fargo, the nation's biggest home mortgage lender, on Thursday announced a new home loan program that requires a down payment as low as 3%.
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By one estimate about a quarter of all U.S. households used a reloadable debit card in 2014, and according to Federal Reserve statistics more than 3 billion transactions were made on the cards in...
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