Headline News Archive

2018

October

09

• Pay off that mortgage before retiring. Retirees share their stories of relief, joy and excitement.

• Obamacare premiums come down but could have been even lower. In some states average premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will be lower next year than in 2018. But in every state, they would be even

08

• Save big this season with pre-holiday credit-card strategies. In 2017, the average American household carrying credit card debt had a balance of $15,482, according to a NerdWallet study. Without a plan, holiday shopping can set

• 3 out of 4 Americans share Netflix, Amazon, Uber accounts. Altogether, 74 percent of Americans are sharing streaming, shopping and mobile accounts such as Netflix, Hulu, Uber, Spotify and Amazon Prime with their family, friends and

• Navient considered settling. Then Trump won.. In the final months of President Obama’s administration, the government’s top consumer regulator was negotiating a large settlement with the student

06

• High interest lenders can charge a 200% interest rate, consumers hope for a rate-cap measure on the ballot (Chinese). (本報記者)加州消費者倡導團體4日表示，希望透過公投，於2020年大選中投票，設置高額貸款利率上限，若該項提議通過，將可能重塑加州消費者貸款市場

05

• New tool for FAFSA completion. Advocates hope new myStudentAid mobile app will mean more applicants finish the FAFSA.

• The super-rich really do avoid a lot of taxes. As bad as you might think inequality is, the reality is it’s even worse for a very simple reason: Taxes really are only

• U.S. student loan debt reaches a staggering $1.53 trillion. The burden of student loans is delaying homeownership for many.

04

• Fitbit data used to charge 90-year-old man in stepdaughter’s killing. Mr. Aiello’s stepdaughter, Karen Navarra, 67, was discovered by a co-worker in her house with fatal lacerations on her head and neck. She had

• Teachers sue Navient, claiming student loan forgiveness failures. Backed by one of the nation’s biggest unions, nine teachers filed a lawsuit accusing the student loan servicer Navient of negligently blocking their

• 10 years later: How the housing market has changed since the crash. Flashback to fall 2008 and you’ll remember the free fall the U.S. economy experienced. At the heart of it was the collapse of

03

• Amazon to raise minimum wage to $15 for U.S. workers. Amazon said on Tuesday that it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for its United States employees, a rare acknowledgment that it was

• Four little-known ways to get into credit card debt. Credit card debt is one of those things that can sneak up on you when you least expect it. It's lurking behind that balance

02

• How to adapt to the end of the world. Researchers are thinking about social collapse and how to prepare for it. 

• 1 million people default on student loans each year. It's a shocking statistic, but 1 million people default on their student loans each year. Here's what you need to know and what you

• 6 ways to avoid the college debt trap. In his recent New York Times article: “The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined”, author and senior director for post secondary

01

• The old rules of the workplace aren't working for women. The number of female chief executives in Fortune 500 companies is 5 percent and has actually declined—by 25 percent—over the past year. The New

• Trump administration suing California over new net neutrality law. The Trump administration said Sunday it will sue California in an effort to block what some experts have described as the toughest net neutrality law

September

30

• Elon Musk settles with the SEC and agrees to pay $20 million fine and step down as company chairman (Chinese). 聯邦證券交易委員會（SEC）控告特斯拉（Tesla）執行長馬斯克（Elon Musk）推文妄稱公司下市案，29日出現進一步發展。SEC與馬斯克和解，讓馬斯克繼續擔任執行長掌管特斯拉，但他必須放棄特斯拉董事長頭銜，並接受鉅額罰款。

29

• Consumer bureau official blasts colleague over blog dismissing racism. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) official in charge of fair lending is pulling her support for a top agency aide over blog posts

28

• Thousands sign Venmo privacy petition. People want their Venmo transactions to be private. More than 25,000 Americans signed a petition asking the digital transaction app to change its default

• 28,000 public servants sought student loan forgiveness; 96 got it.. Federal student loan borrowers who work in government or certain types of nonprofit organizations can apply to have their debt forgiven. But fewer than 1 percent

• SEC alleges Tesla’s Elon Musk lied to investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Tesla chief Elon Musk on Thursday and is seeking to ban him from leading any public company, saying he

• Debunking the myths about college financial aid. Starting Oct. 1, the 2019/20 Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) becomes available. Many parents and students fail to file a FAFSA, believing it doesn'