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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

He points out that Europe hasn’t been fixed, that Germany is entering a recession and that the US consumer and businesses are not yet ready to go on a spending spree, indicating that the economy isn’t as strong as others might believe.

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Smart Safety: Paying a Landlord by App

Motherhood Moments

According to CNN , hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of fraud is occurring on the popular peer-to-peer payment service, and banks aren’t reimbursing 90 percent of the victims. The banks reimbursed only around 3,500 of those clients. Zelle has a huge problem with fraud and scams—it’s even the subject of a Senate investigation.

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Our daughter is 24 and was adopted from Eastern Europe when she was one week short of a year old. We lived off my salary and banked Alan’s even before we were married so that we could build our own house (literally), paying cash as we went. I grew up in banking and held other finance-related positions during my working years.