For the last few years, a list of the most common regrets of the dying compiled by a palliative care nurse has been making the rounds online.

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Microsoft’s next video game console, the Xbox One, features a built-in camera and microphone that are raising privacy concerns . But technology companies may soon build them into devices with far wider ...

Pharmaceutical companies pay generic drug makers millions of dollars a year to keep their cheaper products off of the market. It’s a relatively cheap way to keep prices high and maintain profits, as we’ve ...

Single mother Natalie Gunshannon took a job at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in April, hoping to support her daughter. She quit three weeks later, when her first paycheck came in the form of a prepaid debit ...

Here’s a question I recently received with several interesting elements, including free credit scores, checking out companies online, and paid credit repair. Check it out: I recently was looking online ...

A nice dinner out might be the classic date, but it certainly isn’t the cheapest (or most unique) way to spend your anniversary. According to a Zagat survey, the average restaurant meal now costs $71.30 ...

Some banks may be turning a blind eye to fraud because it makes them money. Court documents and interviews with officials at the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial ...

Whether or not you’re concerned about the revelations that the NSA could be digging through your personal information , private companies might be just as bad, if not worse. CNN and BuzzFeed came up with ...

More than 7.4 million people will receive small checks from a pair of settlements related to credit card foreign transaction fees. From CCFSettlement.com , the official website for the settlements: On ...

The thought of citrus and salt might bring a tasty cocktail to mind. But those ingredients can also be a cheap and natural defense against fleas. Depending on where you live, fleas can be merely an annoyance, ...

Take a look around the Web and you’d think the average American family is drowning in credit card debt. “The average credit card debt for a U.S. household is $15,422,” said a press release I received earlier ...

Hiring managers aren’t impressed with the class of 2013. A slim majority (53 percent) of U.S. employers plan to hire recent grads this year, according to a survey of more than 450 human resources professionals ...

Some types of court awards are treated as taxable income by the federal government, while others aren’t. The rules are laid out in IRS Publication 525 under “Other Income,” but MarketWatch took a stab ...

The Affordable Care Act may be a misnomer for some working-class people. It simultaneously requires people to acquire health insurance or pay a penalty next year, and large companies to provide an affordable ...

Michael Tammaro, photographer of celebrities like Tina Fey, Courtney Cox and Kate Bosworth, pleaded guilty earlier this year to grand larceny. He’d been accused to stealing more than $62,000 from prospective ...

Unless you have a lot of free time, or don’t care about getting the best deal, real estate agents are a necessary part of buying or selling a house. They know the industry in and out and make the task ...

The waters are receding, but not fast enough for millions of homeowners. Real estate analytics firm CoreLogic has a new report on home values. It shows that about 850,000 more residential properties are ...

New research says nursing grads have the lowest unemployment rate in the U.S compared with other recent graduates. That’s why we called it one of the best jobs in America last year. Check out the video ...

Plastic is powerful. Credit cards provide instant access to money you may not even have. On one hand, that’s great for obvious reasons. They’re convenient, help smooth out financial bumps between paychecks, ...

On the most recent episode of Discovery Channel’s “MythBusters,” Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara tested whether a few techniques collectively known as “hypermiling” can double your fuel economy. ...

Breaded fish sometimes needs a fresh twist. This week’s Frugal Family Feast fits the bill, with a delectable potato-crusted fish dinner cooked in silky herb butter. Chef Rey De La Osa, resident chef at ...

Want “Charles in Charge” of your days and your nights but don’t want to spring for cable? Don’t want to feel left out during the water-cooler discussion of the last castoff from “The Voice” while at the ...

The government asked big banks how they handle overdrafts, and has now concluded that overdraft protection hurts the people who need it most more than it helps them. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ...

Unpaid internships became more common during and after the recession. Employers struggled to control costs and students struggled to find a job — any job. When they couldn’t, many settled for “work experience.” ...

The minimum wage for waitstaff has been stuck at $2.13 for 22 years. In theory, employers are required to make up the difference between that and the non-tipped minimum wage ($7.25 unless states specify ...

There’s a red light camera a block away from where I live. Haunting and taunting me. Just waiting to snag me. Red light cameras have infested Ventura, Calif. About 20 of them oversee this beach community, ...

It may be bad form for a personal finance writer to admit, but I wasn’t always a good saver. In fact, 10 years ago I was a college student working full time with $5 in her savings account – the minimum ...

There’s good news for job hunters. An international survey of employers found that more U.S. companies will be hiring in the next quarter than in any period since the end of 2008. The survey by employment ...

Diamonds are forever. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that’s how long it has taken De Beers to pay up for a class-action settlement. The world’s largest diamond seller — controlling 65 percent of the market, ...

Income inequality in the U.S. more closely matches that in Uganda than in the United Kingdom. And it’s getting worse. That’s just one interesting fact gleaned from a new report by the International Institute ...

If there’s ever been a reader with a better reason to be “ticked off” at a doctor, I can’t imagine who it would be. Check out the following question: On April 29, I went to a walk-in clinic to have a tick ...

You got a killer deal on 5 pounds of bacon with your club card. Now you’re wondering how many strips your stomach and heart can take before those delectable applewood-smoked slices go bad. Have no fear: ...

We recently wrote that Spirit Airlines is too cheap to pay for a free customer service phone line, and has added that to its already long list of fees. It has about 70 fees, The New York Times says. And ...

Costco and Walmart (and Walmart-owned Sam’s Club) are longstanding, big-box discount stores with very different philosophies. Bloomberg Businessweek calls Costco “the cheapest, happiest company in the ...

Fewer than half of Americans are spending less than they earn, according to a new study. “Just over two-fifths of respondents (41%) report spending less than their income, 36% spend about equal to their ...

Father’s Day is nearly here – Sunday, June 16, in case you forgot — but before you start picking out ties for Dad, consider swapping those stale, old-fashioned gifts for ones more in tune with the modern ...

With the recent revelations that the NSA and other agencies have been tapping into corporate streams of data that can provide them with massive amounts of private information about U.S. citizens, now is ...

Couples who first dated over the Internet have more satisfying marriages and are less likely to divorce, new research says. The study involved 19,131 people married between 2005 and 2012, and it was funded ...

Apple reportedly has partnered with a buy-back wireless distributor to begin offering an in-store trade-in program this month. The company is called Brightstar, and it already handles trade-ins for AT&T ...

Forget 3-D. How about a screen nearly 100 feet wide? Theater chains are bringing in screens 20 percent to 40 percent larger than they’ve traditionally used, the Los Angeles Times says. They go by an alphabet ...

Last summer friends of mine bought a new house – with a pool. Since those are surprisingly uncommon where I live in Louisiana, we were always in the backyard that summer. Then one day, disaster struck. ...

Budgeting is a great tool to help you reach financial independence. But what if your budget is actually hurting you? It can happen when you budget for a purchase. In fact, consumers who start shopping ...

Hundreds of online shoppers are reporting fraudulent charges on their credit cards after recently making a purchase through Rakuten.com, formerly Buy.com. Japanese retailer Rakuten purchased Buy.com in ...

FreedomPop will start giving away free phone service later this year. If you want to pay less for a basic plan, you should take a look. The service will give you 200 voice minutes (plus unlimited calls ...

Consumer-directed health plans such as health savings accounts are resulting in fewer physician visits and prescriptions, and more trips to the hospital, new research says. They’re supposed to encourage ...

The average cost of a wedding reached a new high last year of $28,427, according to The Knot. It sounds like a lot because, well, it is — enough to buy a new car or pay off four years of student loan debt. ...

I’m not sure when it happened, but lately everything I download wants to install a toolbar, download accelerator, or some other piece of “crapware.” That, or the page hosting the file has half a dozen ...

Netflix’s loss is Amazon’s gain — although it didn’t come cheap. The latter company is paying more than $200 million to Viacom for a license to stream popular shows, including “SpongeBob SquarePants,” ...