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Your pocketbook is set to get a lot leaner on January 1. While Congress and the President stay busy electioneering, a whole set of tax cuts, tax breaks, and exemptions are set to expire. Forget about tax cuts for the ...

Even after you close your bank account, it can ruin your credit. Accounts at certain banks have a way of coming back to life and dinging you with overdraft fees, late charges, and penalties. The resulting negative balances get turned ...

Riots and demonstrations seem to be the trend this fall. All over the world, governments are trying to cut back on expenditures, and those who live off the government teat are protesting violently. Yet had welfare and socialist entitlements not ...

The headlines coming out of Syria are truly frightening. Mass graves, civilian bombings, rampant violence – it seems to be degenerating daily. As of August 2012, analysts put 6,000 jihadists on the ground participating in violence. To say it’s not ...

  The government wants Americans to spend, spend, spend – but the average consumer is over it. Instead of doing what the government wants, millions of consumers are doing what’s best for their own lives: they’re taking a hard look ...

Stevia – also known as sweet leaf – is the hot all-natural sweetener of the moment. Of course, it’s been used as a natural sweetener for thousands of years in its native Peru, but only recently has it caught on ...

Student loan debt is a big problem for students today – and chances are it’s going to be a problem for them for the rest of their lives. The issue isn’t just how much the average student owes right now ...

Republicans got the financial analysts of the world all worked up over one of their platform proposals – a return to the gold standard. It’s a proposal that has been championed by Ron Paul for decades, but the last time ...

One of this year’s major debate points between Democrats and Republicans is the question of who will be a better economic steward for America’s future. Both sides point to their past records as evidence of their fiscal responsibility – but ...

Plastic is everywhere, but it’s not that good to have in your life. Though it seems convenient, it actually has high financial, health, and environmental costs. It’s not readily biodegradable, marketing gets us to buy the same throw-away plastic junk ...