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Is $6 too much for a fast food burger? Judging by how many quickly-served, higher-quality burgers are hitting the market lately selling for $5, $6, and up—strictly for the sandwich, not a whole meal—diners seem to be game for paying more for better, bigger burgers.
If you find that you're treated rudely when you patronize a store or other business, don't take it personally: A new study finds that one-third of consumers say they experience disrespectful treatment once a month. This uncivil behavior hurts companies' profits as well as customers' feelings.
The retailer’s favorite customer isn’t the bargain hunter who purchases goods on sale. The same goes for colleges nowadays. Many American universities admit that they actively recruit students who don’t need financial aid and will pay full, non-discounted tuition.
Before Palm Beach, Sun Valley and Aspen became the playgrounds of wealthy there were the Thousand Islands.
When you’re in debt, one of the toughest problems is knowing where to start. It’s not that you have just one debt. You have several. Or dozens. Which debt should you pay off first?
For the first time in two decades, the number of U.S. households with at least one TV has declined. So why would the rates charged to TV advertisers be rising?
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker may be ousted by the company’s board of directors after less than a year on the job and may be replaced – at least on an interim basis — by ex eBay CEO Meg Whitman, according to Bloomberg News
Housing starts just hit their lowest level in three months. As observers of the real estate market, should we be worried?
It’s easy to lose money by gambling. And it’s really easy to lose money by gambling when the house is basically using a stacked deck, and never plans on paying out all the winnings. According to attorneys who filed a civil suit yesterday on behalf of the U.S. government, the popular poker website Full Tilt [...]
— prepared remarks from Raj Date, special advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at the American Banker’s Regulatory Symposium
Google may have finally mastered the ways of Washington. Chairman Eric Schmidt is due to testify today at a hearing before the U.S. Senate on whether the Mountain View., Calif.-based company is abusing its market dominance in search. Google, of course, denies wrongdoing, At the same time, however, it wants to avoid the same antitrust [...]
