A new Federal Reserve report shows that in 2010, credit card issuers paid $73 million to colleges as part of marketing deals — down 14% from $85 million in 2009.
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Liz Weston, one of the best personal finance experts out there, recently received this question from a reader: Next year we will be shopping for a house in the $150,000-to-$200,000 range and hope to have $20,000 to $30,000 saved for a down payment. We have about $75,000 in student loans we are paying down. Would [...]
Sales of previously owned U.S. homes (which make up the majority of the real estate on the market) were running at a disappointing 4.77 million annual rate in June, according to the latest release from the National Association of Realtors. Lawrence Yun, the organization’s chief economist, blamed an unusual spike in contract cancellations. But whatever the [...]
Weird! You may have heard the theory of shopping for groceries with a basket, rather than a full-size shopping cart, as a trick to limit spending, especially on impulse purchases. Logically, this makes sense: With less space to carry groceries, there’d seem to be less chance for making bad decisions. But a new study shows [...]
When you walk into one of the Net Cost supermarkets in Brooklyn, N.Y., you’ll be greeted by hints of chocolate and grapefruit and rosemary focaccia. And while the store actually sells those products, the smells you’ll smell are fake.
More than 1 in 5 daily deal vouchers are never used. What’s more, at least two states are now looking into whether their expiration dates break the law. Has the heyday of daily deals passed?
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With the newest data on home sales out Wednesday, one thing is clear: The volume of current real estate activity is not what many players hoped it would be.
The New York Times’ David Segal has a devastating piece on the economics of the law school business. Basically, law school programs are hugely profitable, and the schools have expanded — and jacked up prices — rapidly, leaving many grads with too much debt and little in the way of career prospects.
— VANESSA CULLINS, VP of medical affairs for Planned Parenthood of America, writing an op-ed arguing why birth control should be more affordable [via The New York Times]
