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Steps to a Secure Financial Future (Spanish)
Un folleto que ofrece pautas simples y directas sobre cómo desarrollar un plan financiero, establecer metas financieras, ahorrar en serio, pagar por consejos sobre inversiones y no perder de vista sus gastos de inversiones. -
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Steps to a Secure Financial Future
A brochure offering simple, straightforward tips about developing a long-term personal financial plan, setting financial goals, saving seriously, paying for investment advice and keeping track of investment expenses. -
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Questions & Answers About Privacy & Your Credit Report
Privacy abuses are on the increase, including credit fraud and identity theft, a fast-growing crime in which an impostor applies for credit under a victim's name. "Questions and Answers about Privacy and Credit Reports" offers… -
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Disputing credit card charges
Under the Fair Credit Billing Act (FCBA), consumers have the right to dispute such billing mistakes as: charges not authorized by you charges listing the wrong price charges for items that were never received… -
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Zero liability
MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express have policies that go beyond federal guidelines so that you will not be held financially liable for fraudulent purchases on your card. And many of the banks that issue… -
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Understanding Privacy
Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to… -
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Privacy Wars
Exploring the conflict between civil liberties and national security, this book sounds the alarm about the current state of surveillance in the United States. Addressing the ease with which the federal government can monitor the… -
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Ponzi
Who was Ponzi, the man whose name is synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam where money from new investors goes to reward earlier ones? (It’s the kind of scheme that Bernard Madoff recently used to… -
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You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Since the Bernard Madoff “Ponzi scheme” scandal broke, shocking investors and the Wall Street community, this insider’s guide to investment rip-offs, scams and con artists has been in demand. The book, published in the late… -
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Stopping Identity Theft
This new book—available March 6, 2009—outlines 10 steps you can take to protect yourself or your family from ID theft and medical identity theft, the fastest growing crime in America. By reading this book,… -
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Investors profiting from - and fixing - mortgages
The latest development in the mortgage market fomenting outrage in the streets and condemnation across the media spectrum is the spectacle of rich investors—Wall Street traders, hedge fund operators, even former executives of the detested… -
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Americans for Financial Reform
Americans for Financial Reform is a coalition of nearly 200 national, state and local consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights organizations that have come together to spearhead a campaign for real reform in our… -
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Show us the e-mail
We end this extraordinary financial year with news that the Treasury is in discussions with American International Group about selling the taxpayers’ 80 percent ownership stake in that company. The government recently permitted several banks… -
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Financial reform endgame
So here’s the situation. We’ve been through the second-worst financial crisis in the history of the world, and we’ve barely begun to recover: 29 million Americans either can’t find jobs or can’t find full-time work.… -
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Senate pushes to exempt auto dealers from financial reform
As the two houses of Congress prepare to merge their financial overhaul bills, the Senate on Monday voted 60 to 30 to recommend that thousands of the nation’s auto dealers be exempted from oversight by… -
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Changes in bank, debit card fees may have limited impact
Congress is mulling changes to the fees and restrictions that banks and credit card companies can place on merchants that accept credit and debit cards, but the changes may not have as positive an effect… -
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In-debt grads can sidestep student loan trouble
You just graduated, and your parents are so proud of you. Which is a good thing, because there’s a good chance that you’ll be moving back in with them. This year’s college graduates will be… -
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Credit scores should be equal access for all
Why in the world would Congress provide some consumers with free access to credit scores, but not others? This could happen under a measure being considered by lawmakers that would grant free access to people… -
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New breed of specialist steps in for family doctor
By the time Djigui Keita left the hospital for home, his follow-up appointment had been scheduled. Emergency health insurance was arranged until he could apply for public assistance. He knew about changes in his medication… -
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States join fight against card fee limits
State governments have become an unlikely ally of the banking industry in a fight against putting limits on the fees that credit and debit card issuers can charge to retailers. Treasurers from at least eight… -
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More scrutiny for health insurers
Pounded by the Obama administration for raising premiums, health insurers now must reckon with a foursome of longtime industry watchdogs who are helping steer the federal government’s effort to overhaul the private insurance market. The… -
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Owners stop paying mortgages, and stop fretting
For Alex Pemberton and Susan Reboyras, foreclosure is becoming a way of life — something they did not want but are in no hurry to get out of. Foreclosure has allowed them to stabilize the… -
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Wal-Mart to offer college credit to workers
Here’s a new way to look at Wal-Mart: institution of higher learning. Under a program announced Thursday, employees of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club will be able to receive college credit for performing their jobs, including… -
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Talk to relatives about caregiving before they need it
Before my grandfather died of cancer, I helped my grandmother care for him in their home. For more than a decade, I managed health care and other financial issues for my disabled brother until his… -
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Health care adversaries find need to collaborate
After squaring off as political foes for more than a year, the Obama administration and the health insurance industry have suddenly discovered that they need each other. Both have huge stakes in the success of…
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