Headline News Archive

2018

April

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• With its tax cut, Wells could pay $1 billion fine 3 times and still have cash. Federal regulators on Friday hit Wells Fargo with a $1 billion fine, the largest levied against a U.S. bank during the Trump administration. But the…

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• Amazon defined by billions--workers' median pay is $28,446. The big numerical reveal Wednesday was Amazon.com Inc. finally spilling the beans on the number of Prime members (more than 100 million). Amazon also disclosed…

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• SEC seeks to require brokers to put their clients first. In a long-expected move that would affect the roughly 43 million households with brokerage or retirement accounts, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose…

• Payday lenders convening at Trump resort are met by protesters. At Trump National Doral Golf Club near Miami this week, executives with the nation's payday loan industry are holding their annual conference.  Outside the gates…

18

• A flaw-by-flaw guide to Facebook’s new GDPR privacy changes. Facebook is about to start pushing European users to speed through giving consent for its new GDPR privacy law compliance changes. It will ask people…

• Now's a very, very good time to look at the IRS calculator for 2018. Before you forget about federal taxes for a while, it's worth visiting the IRS 2018 Withholding Calculator. Your taxes are likely to be very different next…

• Senate poised to roll back watchdog effort to prevent discrimination. The Senate is poised to vote this week to rescind a five-year old Obama-era policy warning auto lenders against allowing minority borrowers to be charged more than their…

• Here's why you're having so much trouble finding a home to buy. Low inventory and high demand have also caused home prices to increase by more than 5 percent every year for the past six years, which…

• First-ever evictions database shows: 'We're In a housing crisis'. For many poor families in America, eviction is a real and ongoing threat. Sociologist Matthew Desmond estimates that 2.3 million evictions were filed in the…

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• Massachusetts defies aministration with crackdown on student loan debt. The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill that would require student loan companies to be licensed.

• Who is a public servant? Borrowers have a lot riding on the answer. If you had the right kind of loan from the government, were in an eligible repayment plan and made 120 on-time payments by 2017 or…

• Can consumers still get help from the CFPB?. Change has come swiftly to the agency, but for now important consumer tools remain in place.

• Thinking about getting an advance on your tax refund?. Tax-refund advance loans can come with some hidden fees.

13

• Federal judges indicate they could remove Mulvaney as acting CFPB chief. Judges on a federal appeals court panel Thursday appeared hesitant to overrule President Trump and install the deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…

12

• Mulvaney leading Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over a cliff. Accounts of the slow death of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are not exaggerations. In his just released report to Congress, the agency’s acting director,…

• I downloaded the information Facebook has on me. Yikes.. There was so much that Facebook knew about me — more than I wanted to know. But after looking at the totality of what the…

• Facebook is now in the data-privacy spotlight. Could Google be next?. The quiet fear among the nation's tech elite, though, has been that extra attention on Facebook will reflect on everyone — Google, perhaps, most of…

• Those stickers warning that repairs will void your warranty are nonsense.  If worries about voiding your warranty have ever kept you from trying to repair your own electronics, or from visiting the cheap repair shop on the corner,…

• Uber anuncia nuevas medidas de seguridad. Uber comenzará a realizar verificaciones anuales de antecedentes delictivos a sus choferes en Estados Unidos y contratar a una compañía que monitorea constantemente arrestos, como…

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• Wells Fargo facing huge fine for mortgage lending, auto insurance problems. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering fining Wells Fargo & Co. hundreds of millions of dollars for its mortgage-lending and auto-insurance abuses — following…

• A house you can buy, but never own. In a contract for deed, the buyer purchases an agreement for the deed rather than buying the deed itself. The tenant has to fulfill the…

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• Under Trump, a voice for the American consumer goes silent. In the 135 days since the Trump administration took control of the nation’s consumer watchdog agency, it has not recorded a single enforcement action against…

• Presentan en Francia la primera vivienda social impresa en 3D. Un grupo de investigadores dio a conocer la que dijo que es la primera vivienda social del mundo impresa en 3D, que desde junio será…

• Agricultores orgánicos buscan crear su propia certificación. Algunos agricultores orgánicos tradicionales en Estados Unidos se están rebelando contra los actuales estándares del gobierno para definir si un producto es orgánico _alegando que…

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• A year after Dao, has anything changed for airline travelers?. In the year since a Kentucky doctor was violently dragged off a United Airlines flight after refusing to give up his seat, the number of…