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The same analytical technique that uncovered cheating in currency markets and the Libor rates benchmark — resulting in about $20 billion of fines — suggests the dealers who control the U.S. Treasury market rigged bond auctions for years, according to a lawsuit. The analysis was part of a 115-page lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court…
Oh here is a good personal finance story for 20-something citizens: “If You Have Savings In Your 20s, You’re Doing Something Wrong.” What we have here is a surprisingly lengthy “take” by one “Lauren Martin,” aged 20-something, which includes published sentences such as “I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life….
I don’t have any savings, but I also don’t have any wants. I don’t know about you, but I like to enjoy my life. I like to go out to eat, buy clothes I don’t “need” and spend money with friends on memorable nights out. This goes back to a piece of advice a very…
Cuomo announced the push during an event in New York City with Joe Biden. Updated Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he will be pushing to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. The announcement accompanied word from the governor that the state Department of Labor has accepted the wage board recommendation that the…
You may love your job. You may love your boss. But if your boss has a problem with you getting the money you deserve, then the friendly boss is not your friend. At the University of Washington, a group of professors is seeking to unionize the faculty. Their aim, the Seattle Times reports, is not…
For years, everyone involved with investing has wanted to know: When will the Federal Reserve raise interest rates? But there’s another important consideration that isn’t asked nearly enough: Can the Fed raise interest rates? That query is more than academic. With the US economy looking increasingly strong, some still think the Federal Reserve could act…
New York University’s commencement ceremony in 2012. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty) New York University is among the country’s wealthiest schools. Backed by its $3.5 billion endowment, the school has built campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, invested billions in SoHo real estate, and given its star faculty loans to buy…
When you picture the CEO of a major company, you think tact, professionalism, and intelligence. Sure, you occasionally get someone who’s eccentric for the sake of being eccentric, but most of the time you can expect that someone with enough level-headedness to run a company will be of relatively sound mind all around. In the…
This story first appeared on The Fiscal Times. When it comes to company loyalty, money matters to millennials. Twenty-nine percent of millennials say that a higher salary is the biggest contributor to their loyalty, according to data released Tuesday by the Staples Advantage Workplace Index. That compares to 20 percent of the overall workforce who place…
This post is part of a series of freelancer stories about waiting to get paid — or never getting paid at all. Presently 81% of freelancers have trouble getting paid by their clients and, on average, each unpaid freelancers is owed over $6,000 in salary. Read on for first-person accounts from Freelancer Union…