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Before Adding Your Child to Credit Card, Set Limits
Editor's note: This is the first installment of a semi-monthly Q&A on credit and credit cards by Sean McQuay, credit cards expert at NerdWallet, a personal finance website. McQuay will answer...
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Employee Morale: 5 Tips For Happier Employees
In a recent article, I was quoted saying a great leader knows the importance of surrounding himself with even smarter team members. This is a hard truth too many entrepreneurs ignore. Hiring smarter...
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Saving for Your Child's Future? Define That Future.
Dear Carrie, I would like to open a savings account or a Roth IRA for my 6-year-old son. What do you think? --A Reader Dear Reader, Saving on behalf of your son is, of course, a great idea -- and the...
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Retirement 101 for the Overwhelmed Millennial
Financial accounts are often the breadcrumbs of our financial lives. A year ago, if you had looked through all my financial statements you would have been able to piece together my life. There was the...
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Educational Travel: Why You Should Try It
Mark Twain once said "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor....
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No, I Do Not Want to Hear About Your Exciting New Business Venture
It used to be the punch line for so many jokes. Sitcoms would feature that shady uncle who tried to sell the protagonist on some new business plan, everyone would roll their eyes, and a laugh track...
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Why Car Insurance Costs More for Electric Vehicles
When you buy an electric car, you're showing fuel costs the door. But you might be letting in an unexpected guest: higher auto insurance rates.NerdWallet researched insurance premiums for gas and...
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5 Required Items in Designing Your Ideal Week
About two years ago I had my first ideal week. One where I was in a state of flow all the time. I worked on projects that were awesome and I only had a few interruptions I scheduled in to one day. The...
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Five Things NOT to Throw Away
We don't fix toasters anymore. Or TV sets. We just buy new ones. America has become a throwaway society - and sadly many people make the mistake of discarding older, but still very useful financial...
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Follow Your Passion
Do you have a burning desire within you? Something that fires you up and gets you really excited? Are you getting to do that every single day? Well, it's possible, but first you have to find some...
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How to Create a Trending Hashtag
Ever wonder how to get your event hashtag to trend? Here's a story of an event that went viral in a few hours... Rock the World, NYC As the host of the Social Media Lounge at Rock the World 2015 - an...
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Martian Food Tech Hits Earth in Trillion Dollar Opportunity
Look to Techcrunch any day of the week and see how investment opportunities abound in Agtech. Then go see Matt Damon in The Martian to get a sense for the future of your food. Combine trillion dollar...
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Steps to Take When Not Looking for a Job & You Really Want A New One
We're sitting at work when the phone rings: it's a recruiter, offering us our dream job at double our current salary! Sadly, this only has happened in our dreams. But even if your dream job does not...
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The Best Free Checking Accounts
Don't Pay for Checks If You Don't Have To We hear ads for free or no-fee checking all the time, but are these accounts really free? There are four different account components to consider.Maintenance...
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The Fight for Flexible Work in America
Almost 8 years ago in search of a more flexible work opportunity I founded my company, Delegate Solutions. My son was on the way, I was commuting to Philly and dreading the thought of working a 9-5...
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Uber Lawsuit Will Put Us Back in Taxicab Hell
It's 2011 and I stand at the foot of my apartment waiting for a yellow cab I'd phoned in to take me to the airport. After 45 minutes and two more calls into dispatch, fearing a missed flight, I drive...
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Millennials Get Clever With Credit
The Millennial generation is usually defined as people born between 1980 and 2000. That places the demographic anywhere between 36 and 16 years old -- and as I'll turn 26 at the end of the year, I'm...
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5 Bad Habits That Prevent Social Media Campaigns From Taking Off
Bad habits tend to creep up on you. You don't realize they're forming until they're already a part of your normal process, and you often don't realize they're destructive until it's too late to prevent...
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Subsidized Gulf Airlines Are Damaging Airlines Globally, Not Just in the U.S.
Last month, I spent two weeks teaching grad students about a variety of airline topics in Switzerland, Germany, and Sweden, and after nearly every lecture someone has asked about the impact of the...
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Gutting Through the VW Crisis
Since the Volkswagen crisis broke a few weeks ago, I've discussed the case with reporters, graduate students and business audiences. I have been taken aback by the central misperceptions among these...
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