Every week is interesting when it comes to Bitcoin — but some weeks are more interesting than others, and this week was full of surprises. Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange…
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Americans have a long tradition of packing up and moving to find better opportunities. Covered wagons streamed west in the early 1800s, packed with people willing to brave the hazards…
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It’s really quite amazing how completely some people are able to destroy their financial lives. Sometimes the tangle of debt and one-sided obligations is so complete that it’s tempting to…
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Would you let a complete stranger stay in your home, if it meant you could put a few extra dollars in your pocket? What about that same stranger driving your…
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If you don’t like the way Wall Street behaves — and, as an American, you have a lot of really good reasons not to like them — the very best…
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If Bitcoin were an adolescent human being it would find itself in therapy, for life. In the space of a month it’s been ridiculed by the likes of Goldman Sachs,…
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The revelations about the NSA spying on American citizens came as a surprise to most people, but the data that corporations and big business collect on each and every one…
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It’s interesting to track trends in technology by analyzing the latest in industry buzz-phrases. After the World Wide Web was firmly established as a business tool, industry consultants started spinning…
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For many people, getting a grip on spending is something that happens only under the pressure of suddenly finding themselves broke. They wonder how that credit card balance got so…
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If you spend any time at all in a discount shopper online forum, like Reddit’s Frugal forum, it won’t be long until you run across a credit card cash back…