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| 3:40 PM 1/19/2012
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Starting in July of 2013, New Jersey residents getting botox injections, breast implants, and other various nips and tucks will be able to get the procedures tax-free thanks to a bill signed today by Governor Chris Christie.
| 6:00 PM 1/11/2012
Forbes contributor Larry Downes predicts that Best Buy will eventually go out of business, based solely on one thing: lousy customer service. Ann Brenoff will take that prediction and raise him one: She thinks there are lots of retail companies on track to go bust for the same reason.
| 11:30 AM 12/9/2011
More than half of those recently polled by Gallup said an income of no more than $150,000 would qualify that person as rich. When asked how much money per year would be necessary for them to consider themselves "rich," 53 percent mentioned an income of $150,000 or less, and 71 percent said an income of $300,000 would be enough.
| 3:20 PM 12/8/2011
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau launched a campaign aimed at simplifying credit card agreements Wednesday. The agency is asking the public for feedback on a more transparent credit card form that is broken down into three sections -- costs, changes and additional information -- and features information high up on fees and interest rates.
| 5:12 PM 12/2/2011
What if there was a simpler solution to avoiding an ATM fee than running all over town looking for an in-network machine? One entrepreneur says he's found it: Instead of paying a fee to use an out-of-network ATM fee, Clinton Townsend, the founder of Free ATMs NYC, proposes consumers watch an ad, the New York Daily News reports. Townsend has already installed one of the free ATMs at a New York City music venue.
| 2:25 PM 12/2/2011
A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Being as wealthy as a quarter of the households in the United States combined. That may soon be the state of the Facebook founder's finances; the company plans to go public at a valuation of $100 billion dollars.
| 5:15 PM 12/1/2011
Even though last year's financial reform was supposed to make credit cards more transparent, consumers are still complaining about interest rates, billing disputes and confusing credit card terms.
| 6:48 PM 11/11/2011
Two weeks after European leaders trumpeted an agreement to expand a bailout fund they said would finally become large enough to prevent major countries from sliding into default, investors around the world remain deeply skeptical. That skepticism now looms as a growing source of danger for the global economy.
| 12:53 PM 11/1/2011
Out of work and living on a $189-a-week unemployment check, Rob Linville needs to watch every penny. Lately, he has been watching too many pennies disappear into the coffers of the bank that administers his unemployment check via a prepaid debit card.
| 3:58 PM 10/31/2011
The people occupying Wall Street aren't the only ones worried about the wealth gap. Nearly three-quarters of the people in a new poll conducted by The Hill say that income inequality is a problem for the United States. Fifty-five percent of respondents said income inequality is a big problem, while another 19 percent described it as somewhat of a problem.