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Why Use Cash?

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With the rash of data breaches at some of the major retailers in the past years, consumers are becoming more wary of flashing their debit and credit cards at brick and mortar stores when they could be using cash. In 2008-2009 when we had the credit crunch and recession, there was at least one day when stores were not accepting credit.

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How To Get The Holiday Gifts You Really Want

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As it turns out, giving just may be a hard wired survival technique for humans. Ariel Knafo and other researchers from the psychology department at Hebrew University in Jerusalem designed and conducted an experiment that showed that certain people actually have DNA specific to giving. In “A Gift That Gives Right Back? Not necessarily.

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