The Era Of Cheap Money, The Lifeblood Of The Economy, is Over.

Easy credit has been the economy's lifeblood in recent years. It gave people who previously couldn't afford homes a crack at the American dream. It fueled multibillion-dollar takeovers of some of corporate America's biggest names. It buoyed the stock market and propped up the prices of many other assets.

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Why You Can't Cancel Your Account: An Insider's Perspective

It's easy to forget that despite infuriating scripts and adherence to dogmatic corporate policies, CSRs are real people. A former call center worker wrote in to describe the extraordinary pressure CSRs feel from management to keep customers from canceling their accounts...

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13 ways to live well on less

"Every dollar you spend has consequences elsewhere in your life. Remembering that will change the ways you spend and save."

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Researchers discovered a quirk in consumer's thinking about prices!

Eleven years ago, researchers discovered a quirk in consumers’ thinking about prices: they acted as if low digits were farther apart than higher ones. For example, consumers behaved as if there were more of a gap between three and four than between eight and nine.

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Just When You Think The Housing Market Can Not Get Worse It Does

Economists disagree whether soaring foreclosures in California suggest the world's eighth-largest economy is poised to slump or if it is just seeing its share of disarray from the subprime segment of the mortgage lending industry.

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Katrina Victims Screwed By Insurance Companies Because Of God

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday against Hurricane Katrina victims who argued their insurance policies should have covered flood damage caused by levee breaches that flooded 80 percent of New Orleans. policies did not distinguish between floods caused by an act of God — such as excessive rainfall — and floods caused by an act of man.

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