Here’s one easy way to pay less to your credit card company
Want to pay less to your credit card company? Make a phone call. While most cardholders have not requested a break on either interest rates or fees recently, the majority of those who did ask were successful, a new survey shows. In the past year — a time when interest rates were rising — 81% […]
The Pros and Cons of Standard vs. Itemized Tax Deductions
WHILE YOU DON’T HAVE much choice when it comes to paying taxes, you can benefit from significant deductions that reduce the amount you owe Uncle Sam. “We’re allowed to take deductions against income,” explains Traci Kratish Pumo, the managing director with the tax and financial advisory firm BDO. Those deductions reduce the amount of income […]
Former SEC lawyer sounds alarm on ‘the greatest retirement crisis’ in history
“Pension detective” Ted Siedle, a former SEC lawyer who now runs Benchmark Financial Services, was awarded a record $78 million for blowing the whistle on JPMorgan Chase’s JPM, +0.84% failure to inform wealthy clients about conflicts of interest that drove the bank’s investment advice. Furthermore, Siedle’s firm has taken the lead in over $1 trillion […]
The No. 1 money-saving question Americans asked Google this year
Google knows your money-saving woes. It’s financial literacy month, so search engine Google GOOG, +0.20% has released its list of the most-Googled personal finance questions, including the questions they get on saving money. The No. 1 “how to save for” question Google got over the past year (in the U.S. from March 2018 to March 2019): How to […]