Who is stealing — and crashing — airplanes in Washington state? Since November, police say, at least three small, private planes have been stolen and flown off
Police suspect ‘Barefoot Burglar’ is stealing, crashing planes
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Digging out from $80,000 in debt
Two years ago, Dawn Warfield was drowning in debt.
Scam targets veterans’ credit card info, VA warns
Watch out for the latest scam targeting veterans and their credit card numbers, the Department of Veterans Affairs warns.
Bomb note found on plane forces emergency landing
An American Airlines flight out of Florida made an emergency landing Thursday night after a written bomb threat was found in a bathroom, officials said. Scam artists are calling veterans and posing as VA workers who need credit card information to update prescription information, as part of a scheme that fraudsters have recycled over the years.
Yale announces reward for missing student
Yale University announced Friday a $10,000 reward to anyone with information leading to a missing graduate student and bride-to-be.
Is Your Credit Too Good?
If you pay your credit-card bills in full each month, you probably didn’t take much notice when President Barack Obama signed legislation in late May aimed at keeping banks from doing such things as hiking interest rates with little or no notice and engaging in other consumer-unfriendly practices. But don’t assume that just because you rarely carry a balance, you are immune from poor treatment at the hands of credit-card issuers.
Why Rising Interest Rates May Be a Good Sign
Now that a collapse of the U.S. banking system seems unlikely, stock-market watchers have found a new thing to worry about: rising interest rates
The Outlook For Stocks Is Decidedly…Mixed
‘Mixed’ is a word that pops up often in financial research reports these days. The measures that give us hints about which way the economy and markets are headed‹everything from the number of people out of work to how difficult it is for companies to fund themselves are pointing in every which direction. As a new Bank of America-Merrill Lynch report puts it: ‘The [stock market] indicators are fairly evenly divided between positive and negative readings.’ That’s not too helpful.
Will Chinese consumers rescue world economy?
When CEOs and professional investors in developed economies go to bed these days, some may pray for protection from markets in turmoil, share prices in the cellar and angry financial gods bringing fire and brimstone with every check of their Bloomberg terminal or the front pages of The Wall Street Journal. “Spend, China,” they whisper.
How the Banks Plan to Limit Credit Card Protections
A popular president taking on a reviled industry should get what he wants, in principle, especially when he’s working with a sympathetic Congress. But it’s not so clear Barack Obama will be able to deliver on his promises of clamping down on credit card abuses, thanks to the banking industry’s experienced Washington lobbyists and their plans to limit proposed restrictions on their business.