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I Lost My Inheritance Thanks To A Scammer

How 5 Young People Actually Make Money In The Stock Market

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Is Early Retirement Actually Worth The Cost?

My Partner Hid His Debt From Me For Years. Then, He Died

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My Boyfriend Didn’t Pay Me Back, So I Put A Lien On His House

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I Earn Much Less Than My Partner, But We Split Costs Evenly. How ...

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Almost 100% Of My Income Goes Toward Rent

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The Humiliation Of Work Under Capitalism

All of us live multiple lives — our identities shift depending on where we are and who we’re with. You’re one kind of person to your close fr

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Why Everyone Has Money Issues, But Nobody Is Talking About It

The thing about personal finance that is often underemphasised is just how personal it really is — and how so many of our financial choices are driven by

Capricorns Don’t Want To Be Rich, We Just Want To Devour Ou...

It’s often said that a classic Capricorn trait is to scoff at astrology. The sea goat, born between December 22 and January 20, is apparently too pra

Is That All There Is? Why Burnout Is A Broken Promise

In the story of our lives, we might be the main character, but work is the dominating theme; our constant motivation. It’s the central thing we do as

The Life-Changing Magic Of Having “Good Parents”

One day, when I was a teenager, my mother and I were driving listening to a playlist I’d made on my iPod, moving easily from one conversation topic t

Put The Salary In The Job Post, You Cowards

Once, at the end of a long job interview, after discussing everything else under the sun, I asked the interviewer what the pay range was for the position.

So, How Is It Really? Watching A Billionaire Go To Space

Nothing about the sentence “71-year-old billionaire Richard Branson is being launched into space from a New Mexico desert just nine days before billi

It’s Weirdly Sexy When Hot White Dudes Cry

We live in the era of thirst, a time when it’s normal not just to talk publicly about who and what you’re attracted to, but also to do so using

Visibility Isn’t Enough. Asian-Americans Need To See Ourselves

A stranger asking me where I’m from doesn’t horrify me — it just jolts me out of place. Suddenly I’m looking at myself from outside my own body, as

How To Find Yourself Again After Identity Theft

What does it take to recover from identity theft? The nature of the crime, and the all-too-common victim blaming, can make it feel like a never-ending nigh

How Credit Scores Rule — & Ruin — Our Lives

The idea of credit is simple — and old. You want something that you can’t offer anything for at the moment, so you work something out with the vendor.

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Why Everyone Is Talking About GameStop Stocks — Or Is It Stonks?

Right now, Wall Street is in chaos — and it’s all thanks to Reddit and GameStop, a video game retailer that people visited in the early 2000s and f

The Literal Pain Of Working From Home

Complaining about work is normal. In fact, it’s an utterly ordinary thing to do even if you generally enjoy your job. We might groan about a tough pr

Goodbye To Office Holiday Parties — We’ll Miss You (Sort Of)

Most years, the company holiday party is a chance to do everything from witness your boss getting a little too drunk and making a heartfelt, misty-eyed spe

Companies Are Now Turning Birthdays Into Work Holidays. Is This A...

People celebrate their birthdays in various idiosyncratic ways, but there are some near-universal traditions: having cake, blowing out candles and making a

‘Tis The Season To Argue During Family Gatherings — But This Year...

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COVID-19 Doom-Shopping Is Real: “I Get Anxiety About Not Buying T...

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Almost 20,000 Amazon Workers Have Had COVID-19 Since March

This past Thursday, during possibly one of the most hectic news weeks of the year, Amazon published a blog post announcing their dedication to more compreh

WFH: JPMorgan CEO Says Young Employees Working From Home Slack Off

There’s no COVID-19 vaccine yet, but some CEOs seem to be itching to have employees within their sights again. According to Bloomberg, in a recent meetin

How To Help Someone Financially Without Being Rude (Or Ruining Th...

Helping someone out financially can be hard. Not just because your own budget may be tight, but because money is such an emotionally charged subject. Bring

You Still Need A Holiday. Yes, Even Now.

Remember the early days of the coronavirus, when we earnestly thought that, surely, this would all blow over in a couple of weeks? Since then, we’ve take

Google Employees Will Work From Home Until At Least Next Summer

It’s been a subdued summer for most of us, with none of the usual vacation plans and get-togethers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be making plans fo

Why Keeping Politics Outside Of Work Is Outdated

Most career experts would advise against talking about politics at work. The thinking is that, at best, you risk being labeled “unprofessional,” and, a

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