Thieves using online scams to start the new year

Laveta Brigham

Online purchase scams like pet adoptions are gaining steam in 2021. COLUMBUS, Ohio — Online purchase scams make up a third of all scams being reported to the Better Business Bureau of Central Ohio’s Scam Tracker. “80% saying they’ve actually lost money,” says President and C.E.O. Kip Morse. “On average, […]

Car insurance for 19 year olds

Laveta Brigham

How much is car insurance for a 19-year-old? Currently, the national average is $4,133 a year. This is a lot more than the national average, which is $1,738 a year. Because most 19-year-olds don’t make as much as 35-year-olds, it’s imperative that young drivers know every strategy available to them […]

Could You Commit To a No-Buy Year? Here’s How It Works

Laveta Brigham

Bloomberg Wrong-Way Bet on Covid Is Changing Oil-Trading Industry Forever (Bloomberg) — In January, as a mysterious illness ripped through the Chinese city of Wuhan, global oil prices plunged. Two thousand miles away in the island state of Singapore, one of the most powerful men in the world of commodities trading, Lim […]

Dow Stock Had a Remarkably Ordinary Year

Laveta Brigham

Text size The Dow Chemical logo is shown on a building Bill Pugliano/Getty Images With the year almost over, we’re taking a look at all 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, starting with the worst performers— Boeing and Walgreens Boots Alliance —and working our way up to the […]

12 Places To Make a Donation in Lieu of Gifts This Year

Laveta Brigham

Every year, 63 million Americans—about 25 percent of the adult population—volunteer to serve their communities through soup kitchens, literacy programs, and by other means. Reports suggest that this commitment to others hasn’t changed despite the garbage fire year that is 2020. In the spirit of the socially-distanced altruism, many folks […]

Investment lessons to remember from a year to forget

Laveta Brigham

Lesson number five: most of the time things stay the same but just occasionally it really is a watershed. Everyone thought that the financial crisis would change everything, but we soon got back to doing things exactly as we had before, with long-term consequences by the time we got to […]