Investors, beware: Hundreds of articles on websites that track stocks may not be what they seem. The SEC on Monday announced charges against 27 individuals and businesses for schemes in which writers were allegedly paid in secret to promote the stocks of public companies. The ploys “left investors with the impression they were reading independent,…
Have you ever wondered how a car insurance agent giving you a quote knows so much about you? Well, a lot of the information they get comes directly from the C.L.U.E. report. CLUE is short for Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange. The CLUE report offers is a database of information which contains all of your insurance…
That’s the question Y Combinator wants to answer. The Silicon Valley organization, known for its elite accelerator program, said that it’s looking to fund a study on basic income. The idea is to cover the costs of basic necessities — like food and rent — and then see what people do with that financial freedom.…
Maybe you haven’t quite hit the six-figure salary bracket just yet but you’ve got a retirement plan and set up a brokerage account. Hiring a financial advisor to track it all might be out of your price range, but with new sites like Future Advisor, you might not have to. The main web application, which…
So, which airline has the lowest customer satisfaction? According to certain reports, Spirit Airlines ranked dead last in the latest travel report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). I have to say however that my personal experience with US Airways (now merged with American Airlines) has been less than expected. In short all airlines are…
So your tax refund arrived (or is on its way). How will you spend it? Consider investing. The typical tax refund is $2,800. After you pay some bills, buy your next vacation flights or eat that steak dinner (medium rare, please), you could have about $1,000 left to spend freely. Investing is the time-tested way…
Bank to Ben Bernanke: Application Denied When the former top dog of the Federal Reserve central bank gets denied his mortgage refinancing, a few eyebrows are going to be raised. Speaking to a conference in Chicago Thursday Bernanke told a moderator for Moody’s Analytics, “Just between the two of us …I…