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By Gavin Magor On January 25, 201808:00 AM Eastern
My home state of Florida is talking about dropping the Personal Injury Protection requirements from its insurance mandates. Seems legislators think the system is outdated and ineffective at...
By Gavin Magor On August 24, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Many would agree with me that using a pen to fill out important paperwork — then sending it in via snail mail — is a thing of the past. Most of these tasks can now be completed, submitted, and...
By Mandeep Rai On August 9, 201707:00 AM Eastern
This market has a lot going for it: Earnings growth so far has been strong, global growth is re-emerging, and fiscal policy could (eventually) help. Let’s also not forget, there aren’t many other...
By Gavin Magor On July 20, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Auto insurance is something everyone needs. Period. Even if your car is paid off and you no longer want full coverage, you’re still required to have liability protection. It’s mandatory across the...
By Remi Lukosiunas On July 18, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, government agencies have taken a number of steps to ensure that banks can weather another economic downturn. In a perfect world, the next downturn...
By Mike Larson On March 17, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Federal Reserve did exactly what I predicted it would: Raise interest rates for the third time in this rate-hiking cycle. Wednesday’s move boosted the benchmark federal funds rate to a range...
By Mandeep Rai On February 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
After the election, it was obvious to me that stocks were the best game in town. I’ve covered the reasons before. But suffice it to say, investors bought stocks because they were looking for...
By Jon D. Markman On July 26, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In 2011, Facebook (FB) was besieged by surging data-management costs. It was growing too fast. So it decided to change the way it did data centers.
That change was radical. Jonathan Heiliger,...
By Jon D. Markman On May 31, 201607:30 AM Eastern
There has always been an income-inequality problem in the world of software development. Now, a new study from Sensor Tower illuminates just how big that divide has become.
Like most gold...
By Jon D. Markman On March 15, 201607:30 AM Eastern
When you consider that gasoline prices are near their lowest of the decade and jobs are firming up, you would expect that small-business owners should be optimistic.
Yet they’re not. In fact,...