Make wise decisions on auto insurance
Whether you are buying insurance for a new car or for an older second car, there are many choices to make. Collision insurance: When a vehicle is…
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Faster money transfers on the horizon
Here’s good news for American consumers and businesses. The Federal Reserve’s new instant payment service, FedNow, is set to transform the speed and…
Student loan debt varies widely
Here’s a number that seems huge. Americans collectively have more than $1.7 trillion in federal and private student loans. While 54 percent of Americans…
Drug-addicted sharks?
Drug smugglers routinely push bales of drugs into the ocean and let them float to shore, and for decades fishermen have told stories of seeing sharks…
Superstition invokes cute fertility symbols
According to one funny tradition, if you say “Rabbit Rabbit” on the first day of the month before you say anything else, you’ll have good luck. You can…
Trying to save money? Cut this
One simple way to give yourself more wiggle room in your budget or more padding in your savings account: Stop eating out. Americans spend an average of…
Man finds hoard of gold in Kentucky
Imagine a time of war. Raiders from an army will come and steal your valuables. You hide them. But you never get back to those valuables, even your gold,…
Artist as stargazer
One of the most famous artistic views of the night sky, Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, seems fanciful in its elaborate swirls and waves of the sky, but…
Ticks can fly?
Those icky, dangerous, blood-sucking ticks are lazy and they can’t jump. But they can fly — sort of. According to a study in the journal Current Biology,…
The slick history of WD-40
As you probably already know, WD-40 is a pretty slick invention. But have you ever wondered where this wonder solvent came from? In 1953, a trio of…