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It was a good idea to file early this year, but there’s a good chance there are procrastinators in your community. Now’s a good time for...

Christopher Jones-Cruise Journalsese: clichés, misnomers, and redundant phrases, all making their way too often into news scripts. So are...

This week, the Federal Reserve raised the target federal funds rate from 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent and indicated that additional increases are...

It’s still pretty chilly in many parts of the country, but as March marches on, spring is in the air, if not in the weather, certainly in the...

President Trump this week ordered tariffs on steel and aluminum imports coming to the US from anywhere other than Canada and Mexico. The move...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection this week released its annual report of fraud over the past year, including...

By Christopher Jones-Cruise “Hey! You! Hey you!” Pretty rude way to get someone’s attention isn’t it? But that’s...

It’s almost a rite of passage for school-aged children to beg for a pet, start to demonstrate responsibility, promise to take care of it, and...

It has been a costly flu season so far this year, with high numbers of flu-like symptoms, hospitalizations, and deaths. According to the CDC, the...

It was hard to avoid a heart-sinking feeling this week as stock market headlines jumped out of the business section and onto the front page with...

This year, federal income tax returns are due April 17. Typically, April brings a slew of tax-related consumer finance stories. This year,...

President Trump spoke today on the final day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The annual meeting is a gathering of world...