Solving the lens fogging problem
July is National Eye Injury Prevention Month, and warehouse and manufacturing workers face the highest risk of any industry. About 2,000 U.S. workers…
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The two-week trouble of payday loans
Payday loans are legal in most states, but illegal or capped at very low rates in about 21 states and the District of Columbia. If your state allows them,…
Can you fund retirement without stocks?
Some want zero stock market exposure when they retire. Maybe they were burned in 2008. Maybe they remember the decade from 2000 to 2009, when the S&P 500…
“Free $1,000” insurance from the bank
Your bank or credit union may have already sent you an announcement that you are covered for $1,000 of accidental death and dismemberment insurance. It’s…
Mystery deposit from your credit union? It’s your share of the profits
If you bank with a credit union, you may notice a deposit appear once a year labeled something like “descriptive deposit rebate.” It is not a mistake. It…
Jefferson’s odd July 4 shopping trip
July 4, 1776, was a busy day in Philadelphia. The Continental Congress had just voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, a document Thomas…
The $4 frame that held a treasure
In the summer of 1989, a financial analyst from Philadelphia stopped at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. According to the Los Angeles Times, he…
The signer who paid the price
When the 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence, they pledged “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” For Richard Stockton of New Jersey,…
How a king became 42,000 bullets
For six years, a gilded equestrian statue of King George III had stood in Bowling Green at the southern tip of Manhattan. By the evening of July 9, 1776,…
Doing business by sail: when an order took a year
Imagine placing an order with a supplier and waiting a year for delivery, then paying with a piece of paper backed by tobacco. That was business in…