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Personal Finance
Money at 30: "Bad with Money" Book Review
When most people think about financial books, I have to assume they envision thick economic textbooks or perhaps a hardcover series from a money guru like Dave Ramsey. In reality, the personal finance books I've reviewed come from authors like Tanja Hester, Grant Sabatier, or Erin Lowry who all gratefully give their takes on money matters that make such topics approachable, actionable, and interesting. That's why I was intrigued when...
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Survey Finds Even the Financially Savvy Make Money Mistakes
When it comes to personal finance, it's fairly simple to make a mistake. Whether it's as simple as overspending or more complicated such as errors in investing, you might expect that most Americans would be quick to cop to these missteps. What you might not anticipate, however, is that these types of money mess-ups are also common among the financially savvy — yet that's exactly what a recent survey from...
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Crypto Tax Compliance Tool TaxBit Raises $5 Million
Of all the regulatory issues that cryptocurrencies have presented, perhaps the most tangible involves taxes. Ever since the great Bitcoin boom of 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and tax professionals across the country have attempted to get the word out about properly reporting crypto gains — while likely trying to understand the rules for themselves. Luckily the startup TaxBit has a plan to help with this pain point and...
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GasBuddy Predicts Average Cost Per Gallon to Remain Under $3 in 2020
Whether you're a frequent road tripper or a long commuter, there may be good news for the year ahead. According to the gas station-finding app GasBuddy, the national year average for gasoline is expected to stay below $3 a gallon once again in 2020. For transparency GasBuddy heads off their report with a look at some of their past predictions compared to the actual national average. For example their 2018...
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eMarketer: Mobile Payments Getting a Boost from Increased Contactless Card Acceptance
For years we've heard about mobile payments finally breaking through — but now it seems that the technology is making strides thanks in part to updated physical cards. According to eMarketer, it looks as though the steady roll-out of contactless credit cards are helping to raise the popularity of mobile payments as well. A survey conducted by CreditCards.com and YouGov last summer found that 24% of rewards credit card holders...
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Money at 30: How 4 Big Life Events This Decade Helped Shape My Money Outlook
As I write this, 2019 has mere hours of life left in it. What's even crazier is that, as the ball drops, we'll also be welcoming a new decade (save your technicalities — culturally, decades start in years that end in "0"). This got me thinking about just how much my life has changed during the 2010s. Moveover it seems that a lot of these big events had something to...
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