fbpx

Category: Finance

Post
5 better investments than a Powerball ticket

5 better investments than a Powerball ticket

Bought your Powerball ticket yet? There was no jackpot winner on January 2, so the grand prize has climbed to $450 million for today’s (Jan. 6) lottery drawing. There’s nothing wrong with putting a couple of bucks toward a Powerball ticket every once in a while. Who doesn’t dream of winning big some day? But...

Post
pot industry building brands?

pot industry building brands?

Snoop Dogg has his own line of marijuana. So does Willie Nelson. Melissa Etheridge has a marijuana-infused wine. As the fast-growing marijuana industry emerges from the black market and starts looking like a mainstream industry, there’s a scramble to brand and trademark pot products. The celebrity endorsements are just the latest attempt to add cachet...

Post
7 Ways to Beat the Holiday Blues

7 Ways to Beat the Holiday Blues

Happy holidays? Bah, humbug. For some, December—ordinarily a time of family, friends, and more holiday parties than you could possibly attend—is actually the darkest month. “There’s a contradiction between expectations of joy and reality,” says Andrew Weil, M.D. So if you’re feeling especially Grinchy lately, then conquer the problem with these simple, all-natural mood boosters....

Post
Get Cheaper Plane Tickets…Use a ‘Fake’ Location

Get Cheaper Plane Tickets…Use a ‘Fake’ Location

I can’t explain airline pricing but I do know some plane tickets can be cheaper depending on where you buy them or, even better, where you appear to buy them from. This is all about leveraging foreign currencies and points-of-sale to your advantage. For reasons I never quite understood, every time I tried to book...

Post
10 Simple Ways to Raise Your Credit Score

10 Simple Ways to Raise Your Credit Score

There are a lot of rumors circulating when it comes to credit scores and how to improve them: Do you really need to pay a credit repair company to increase your score? (No.) Will getting married help raise it? (No.) Will making on-time payments every month give it a boost? (Yes.) If you want to...

Post
Auburn-Opelika, AL: Best Small And Medium-Size Cities For Jobs In 2015

Auburn-Opelika, AL: Best Small And Medium-Size Cities For Jobs In 2015

Small Cities – No. 7: Auburn-Opelika, AL 2014 Number Of Jobs: 60,700 Job Growth, 2014: 3.5% Job Growth, 2009-2014: 16.1% ================================ A look at job growth in America’s small and medium-size cities provides a very different, perhaps more intimate portrait of the ground-level economy across a wider swathe of the country than our survey last...

Post
Supreme Court upholds nationwide health care law subsidies

Supreme Court upholds nationwide health care law subsidies

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies underpinning President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, rejecting a major challenge to the landmark law in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans. The justices said in a 6-3 ruling that the subsidies that 8.7 million people currently receive...

  • 1
  • 5
  • 6