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  • The High Costs of Distracted Walking

    By Tim Henderson, Stateline

    They walk in front of cars, and into tree limbs and street signs. They fall off curbs and bridges into wet cement and creek beds. They are distracted walkers who, while calling or texting on mobile...

  • How the One Percent Splurge at Holiday Time

    By Robert Frank, CNBC

    Forget the white Lexus or Mercedes with a red bow on the top. Most of today's millionaires plan to spend their holiday money on gift cards, travel and parties. According to the CNBC Millionaire...

  • The 9 Holiday Gifts Everyone Wants This Year

    By Benjamin Glaser, dealnews.com

    Lots of so-called experts put out lists of the "Top Gifts This Season," but DealNews has what puts everyone in the holiday spirit: cold, hard, quantitative data. Since an overwhelming number of...

  • <p>Andy Wahol's prints of Chairman Mao really make him pop.</p>

    Colorful Ways Retailers Get Us to Spend More (Infographic)

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    Looks like brick-and-mortar retailers have taken a page out of the real estate brokers’ handbook by using special scents to help customers part with a little more cash than they might have intended...

  • <p>The highest paid of Hannon’s seasonal jobs, preparers don’t actually need an accounting degree, though it’s helpful, she says. But you must have your own tax preparer identification number, pass a competency exam, and take continuing education course

    The Case for Working Longer and Retiring Wealthier

    By Charles D. Ellis, CNBC

    In my forties and fifties, my friends and I assumed we'd all retire at 65. Didn't everybody? Then, still going full tilt in my early sixties, I thought retiring at 65 seemed too early. Yet data shows...