Chris Taylor
Recent Stories By Chris Taylor:
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Soothe the financial bite of a 'bad' dogJanuary 25, 2018
NEW YORK(Reuters) - Try to imagine the "world's worst dog," and you probably think of the incorrigible Marley, from John Grogan’s bestselling book and big-screen adaptation “Marley & Me.”But...
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Be a money superhero and cosplay on a budgetJanuary 16, 2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you ever happen to run into Burbank’s Mark Chu-Lin, he might not respond if you call out to him by name.This will be because he is in character as G.I. Joe - or War Machine...
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History Lessons: First jobs of famous historiansJanuary 5, 2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) - (This January 4 story has been refiled to remove reference to the Model Cities Program in the fifth paragraph, because this was not the program Drew Gilpin Faust worked for at...
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Bargain Bin: ETFs for value huntersJanuary 3, 2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Think of the stock market right now as a high-school cafeteria. The most popular kids in school are growth investors, high-fiving and riding a multi-year bull run.Meanwhile, the...
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A Model Life: How Petra Nemcova transformed tragedy into joyDecember 21, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Petra Nemcova's life were a movie plot, nobody would believe it.Girl grows up under Communism in the former Czechoslovakia, climbs to the top of the fashion world as one of...
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The write stuff: Life lessons from author James PattersonDecember 12, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - (The writer is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.)Most writers dream of publishing a book in their lifetime, and maybe even selling a few copies. Then...
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Retail disruption is nothing compared to gnarly first jobsDecember 7, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - If any industry is in the throes of total disruption right now, it is retail.Some brick-and-mortar retailers are dying, while some online retailers are booming. But while the...
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Yes, she's judging you: Luvvie Ajayi on writing a bestselling lifeDecember 7, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sometimes in life, the best teachers are not elder statesmen who have been around for decades. Sometimes we can learn the most from young entrepreneurs who are creating something...
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Disrupt This! Innovation ETFs are storming the marketDecember 5, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com is disrupting retail. Airbnb is disrupting hotels. Uber is disrupting transportation. Who is going to be disrupted next?A growing number of exchange-traded funds are...
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Economist Dan Ariely has a fix for our financial foiblesNovember 20, 2017
NEW YORK(Reuters) - No offense, but you are probably dumb with money.You are human, and we are simply wired to make dumb financial decisions, like spending too much or saving too little.Famed...
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Sesame Street goes global to teach kids about moneyNovember 13, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Translating money messages to 100 million kids around the world is not a feat for ordinary humans - you need monsters. Elmo and Cookie Monster, to be specific. These two and...
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First jobs: How to prepare for a life of giving away moneyNovember 1, 2017
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From multiple hurricanes to earthquakes, wildfires and refugee crises, it seems there was a new humanitarian crisis at every turn in 2017. At least one positive to come out of it...