Although summer may be the best time to catch a concert, those student loans may be holding you back from seeing the illusive Lady Gaga on her Monster Ball Tour. According to Ticketmaster standard admission to see the reigning queen of pop at Madison Square Garden costs a few nickels shy of $200....
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9:00 AM 6/19/2010
I graduated college on May 17, and less than 24 hours later boarded a plane for a two-week tour of Europe. London, Paris and Madrid are exciting, but expensive. Even such a short trip can prove financially draining, so here are some tips for anyone looking to travel across the pond this summer....
Direct Marketing Associates, which solicited potential car buyers using credit reports, settled charges lodged by the Federal Trade Commission that the company lied to consumers with low incomes and poor credit by telling them they had been approved for loans. The company and its owner were...
Dave & Buster's, FTC settle on protecting customers' credit cards
12:30 PM 3/29/2010
The Dave & Buster's food and entertainment chain got publicly spanked by the Federal Trade Commission after being accused of leaving more than 130,000 of its customers' credit and debit card information left vulnerable to hackers -- causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of unauthorized and...
Census scams can cost you, here's how to spot them
1:15 PM 3/24/2010
Filling out a Census form is a once-in-a-decade chore for most -- and it's also an opportunity for crooks to take advantage of those who are only trying to do their civic duty. That doesn't mean you should avoid filling out a Census form. It just means you need to understand how these scams...
I absolutely hate driving and unfortunately, the city where I live depends on cars -- overwhelmingly so. In elementary school, I would bike to school several times a week. Then, I would do it just for fun and to burn off all that extra energy you may imagine a sixth-grader might have.
But now,...
Near the start of the new century, the Internet gave us Napster, the peer-to-peer network that allowed people to trade and download songs and albums for free, illegally of course.
Since then, the way people purchase music has been altered and the music industry has taken notice. In 2007, the...
Money College: Laptop bargains for less than $500
1:00 PM 2/16/2010
So many little things add up when starting college: from tuition to all the bells, whistles and mandatory add ons that eventually drain every last penny in your name before you even set foot in a classroom. And for most schools, including mine, it's policy that students own a laptop.
My school...
Money College: Chegg's rental model a nifty Netflix for textbooks
5:00 PM 2/15/2010
It's bad enough that college tuition will cause most students to land in debt for years after they graduate. But when each new semester begins, college students around the country cringe, knowing that they will have to watch their debt rise with each swipe of their credit card while purchasing...
Bullet trains are go! Recovery Act spurs construction of high-speed rail projects nationwide
11:00 AM 2/4/2010
All aboard! It was announced on January 28 that California, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Washington have been given the green light to start construction on high-speed railways that will cut down travel time and make traveling from city-to-city, or even city-to-state, much more...
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